Liubov Nosova won second prize at the 2024 edition of La Maestra. Here's a look back at her journey through this prestigious competition for female conductors.
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Liubov Nosova won second prize at the 2024 edition of La Maestra. Here's a look back at her journey through this prestigious competition for female conductors.
When a middleman attempts to complete his first abduction, his confidence in his ability to deliver begins to waver as personal connections quickly shatter any notion of morality and pose questions about his own principles.
Teresa's daughters and her mother-in-law, a nonagenarian with senile dementia, arrive at her house. The daughters will meet their mother and grandmother at a family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of their father's death.
Meet Axel Falcon, a dedicated cop determined to cleanse the streets from murder and corruption. But tragedy strikes when his family is brutally taken from him. With nothing left to lose, Axel embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance, following the enigmatic clues left behind by an unknown assassin.
After witnessing a traumatising road safety film, Peter, an extremely anxious young man late for an important date, struggles to leave his home due to being plagued by visions of past traumas he seems to have forgotten.
With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the proliferation of nuclear weapons across the globe. She visits Los Alamos, home to the United States’ nuclear weapons development facility and the historic home of Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project. In Scotland, she reveals the strategy behind Britain’s nuclear deterrent, and speaks to campaigners in Suffolk fighting against US weapons they fear will be based on UK soil. Jane also discovers how many of the global agreements and safeguards that have constrained the spread of nuclear weapons since the 1970s are breaking down. This is a story told by the scientists, investigators and diplomats who set the clock and have fought to ensure that the ultimate deterrent has not been used in over 70 years.
There is an ancient villa where desperate people have the opportunity to solve their fate by selling their body to a mysterious entity in exchange for money. When enormous, centuries-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a series of strange and sinister events push three unlikely guests to band together to attempt a desperate escape.
Chris van Tulleken takes a personal view at why ultra-processed foods are so irresistible and how they have come to dominate food culture.
At dusk, boxers from the La Frappe collective train in a Marseille park. Their bodies get into motion, gradually forming a community of gestures, sensations and emotions.
The work is inspired by a text of the same name, written by Charles Babbage in 1864. Better known for his computational inventions, Babbage also rose to prominence for his satirically obsessive battle against noise pollution from buskers in nineteenth-century London, advocating for silence as a civic right. Departing from this premise, Spagnola’s new video installs a street performer on loop. The video rehearses a series of outmoded archetypes—the hippie, the Californian, the rocker—and reprises the child busker character from her earlier works to reflect on the antiquated promise of self-reliance and the systematic elimination of shared experience.
11 international directors, 11 short stories and one protagonist: the PENIS. The penis as you have never seen it, feared it, conceived it, dreamed of it... in the first DICKSPLOITATION movie ever!
When Lou steals her sister's dress to dress up her favourite doll, the sister's twisted revenge is no child's play…
We celebrate the Sandman’s 65th anniversary! To mark the occasion, a brand-new episode is released in which little Sandman travels the country in his multi-mobile. But there is a mishap when he gets out: The bag of dream sand gets torn and the sand trickles out. The way to the dream sand mill is not easy to find. Quite a number of stages must be negotiated to reach the destination.
A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation.
A girl wanders through an abandoned train station. She walks the corridors of her school, disconnected from the place, while trying to write an impossible speech. A memory flies over the station frozen in time.
Recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo in November 2021 to celebrate its 40th anniversary; the iconic album 'Non Stop Erotic Cabaret in its entirety plus hits, rarities and new tracks.
After his break-up with Julia, James works with his therapist by venturing into their shared past in a last-ditch attempt to move forward.
A micro-budget indie feature told in three parts: Before, during, and after a zombie apocalypse, INTERLOPERS depicts a changing world in the face of a 'biological revolution'.
What happens when Max Sterling, a budding young magician, finds himself battling with his magical obsessions. When faced with defeat a different side takes over leading the boy to do unimaginable things.
Over time, Queen Marie-Antoinette, who was the most hated woman of her time, experienced a spectacular return to favor. Today, historians and curators show another character: an independent and loving woman in constant search of intimacy who knew how to keep her secrets; a woman with refined, feminine and modern taste who marked her time. At Versailles, in this sublime setting cut off from the world where she barricaded herself, Marie-Antoinette cultivated her own style and influenced, throughout Europe, the tastes of her time.
After an environmental catastrophe, the only survivors left live sheltered wearing the biodermis, a suit they can survive with but doesn't allow them to feel touch. After years of lockdown, two survivors go outside.
Award-winning comedian, tap dancer and Talksport radio host Charlie Baker toured this hour of stand-up drenched in manure, cider and clotted cream around UK villages/towns/cattle markets. Now he's gone digital for the whole world to embrace Comedy with a countryside accent. Imagine Jethro and Jack Black had a son. Job's a good 'un. Proper job.
In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a storm is brewing over the soul of its public schools. What begins as a debate over library books quickly reveals a deeper battle — one over religion, democracy, and the future of American education. Set in Elizabethtown, nestled in the heart of Lancaster County, An American Pastoral follows a high-stakes local school board race as it becomes a flashpoint for a national culture war. With far-right activists pushing a theocratic agenda and longtime public servants stepping down under threat, the town’s once-routine school board meetings erupt into scenes of conflict and division. This gripping documentary captures the voices of citizens fighting to protect their schools—and the fragile promise of secular democracy — one ballot at a time.
Recent scandals have revealed the brutal methods often imposed on young top athletes. Fueled by numerous testimonies, this damning investigation reveals the workings of a system which sacrifices children in the name of economic interests and glory.
Vincent, a truck driver, picks up a young pregnant woman. She turns out to have an unstable temper… and an automatic pistol. She orders Vincent to continue driving, without stopping. When he's out of gas, she'll kill him.
Fouad Elkoury's unique journey, between photojournalism and art photography, from his early days immersed in the complex and tragic history of Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to his travels from the port of Marseille to Istanbul, from Turkey to Egypt, from the 1970s to the present day, punctuated by the photographs that made him famous. An intimate and privileged encounter with one of the greatest photographers in the Arab world, through his personal archives, his travel stories, and his life stories.
High atop Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, two individuals brave the deadly peaks and trails to pursue their personal conquests before the slopes melt away, confronting climate change and our role in its prevention.
Frank, a school dropout, meets Nina, a teenage wife and mom seeking education. As they study together, their bond grows, redefining family and reality itself in their eyes.
Sofiane, the son of a former Algerian diplomat, has travelled a lot. Having moved to Lyon for his studies, he is the victim of an administrative decision and lives under constant threat of deportation. In the hope of regularising his situation, he agrees to work for a Muslim funeral parlour. Between parties, encounters and his job, Sofiane finds himself on a journey of initiation that will lead him to build his own identity and gradually move towards adulthood.
The life of Italian businessman Ennio Doris, the founder of Banca Mediolanum.
After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and his job as an engineer to live out his childhood dream: to start a snail farm. Carole, his partner and part-time yoga teacher, enthusiastically welcomes this change. So they leave the city for the countryside. Thrilled to embark on this new adventure, the couple moves into the part of the farmhouse that belongs to Luc, paying little attention to the adjoining part inherited by his brother!
It's as if everybody received a manual on how to be human, but not Alice... Can she find her humanity through a connection with someone else?
From London's Royal Court Theatre, acclaimed comedian Ahir Shah dishes on class, family and multiculturalism in the UK from his grandfather's view.
The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak of the dramatic events, and return home to Armenia in search of a worthy example and solutions on how to live on. Paradjanov's house becomes a place of inspiration and a point of no return to toxic reality.
LES PIEDS SUR TERRE counts the adventure of Caroline, Antoine, and Tristan, who set out to investigate the environmental impact of travel. Driven by their desire to bring about change on environmental issues, they went to meet people who are thinking about a different kind of travel, one that is more responsible and conscious. Between moments of realization and unexpected twists and turns, they invite you to dive into their journey with them...
An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest daughter of a gangster. The subsequent situation gets worse and worse, and he is forced to hide in a bunker built especially for him, where he survives for a long time alone, in the company of hallucinations and ghosts.
Celebrating her upcoming marriage, bride-to-be Jo invites her childhood friend, and first love, Scarlet, on a girls’ trip to a country manor. However, despite drifting apart as adults, unresolved feelings still linger between them while the rest of the group enjoys the weekend away. With Jo about to embark on a new stage in her life, but struggling to let go of the past, she reflects with Scarlet on the young girls they once were, and the women they are becoming.
Gautier Capuçon celebrates the fifth edition of his festival "Un Eté en France" with a new series of free outdoor concerts. For this new edition, the cellist is inviting back winners who have participated in previous tours. It's an opportunity to see how these young musicians have developed in the early stages of their careers. Sharing, transmission, emotions, discoveries, unusual moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses are all on the agenda for this new summer tour. An inspiring journey through authentic French towns and villages: in the Var region in Signes, in Corsica in Porto-Vecchio then Bastia, in the Périgord region in Saint-Félix-de-Villadeix, then in Rivesaltes in the Pyrénées-Orientales for an exceptional finale with Schubert's Octet.
The film Miralles tells, as in a novel, the vision of the world of one of the most important Spanish architects of the contemporary international scene. Enric Miralles dies at the age of 45 from a brain tumor. The next day he is buried in his masterpiece, the Igualada Cemetery, an unfinished forest-cemetery. From that moment on, his life and his work are inextricably linked. The film unfolds in variations, following Miralles' own creative method inspired by Giacometti. A search without the possibility of conclusions, as in the extraordinary and complex Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, one of the architect's last works and also one of his magisterial works.
A lonely Inuit must endure the endless summer daylight to be reunited with his lost love.
After bringing a breath of fresh air to the Moroccan music scene, Walid Ben Selim – accompanied by harpist Marie-Marguerite Cano – is set to shake up Journeys Through Music.
Alfred Pipkin receives an unexpected visitor delivering a mysterious parcel. Inviting the stranger into his home, Mr Pipkin is confronted with a haunting truth from his past.
An awkward encounter on the sidewalk between two strangers turns into a shuffle... a Sidewalk Shuffle.
UNESCO Memory of the World: Explore the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica’s new home with 25,000+ rare books on alchemy, hermetica & mysticism at the Embassy of the Free Mind museum, set in Amsterdam’s historic canal mansion, the House with the Heads.
Following a personal tragedy, Neville is ready to face the world again. He inadvertently gets embroiled in a situation that leads to another but with devastating consequences.
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus (1980-91) was the first comic to address the Shoah in mainstream culture and is still considered a landmark in art history.
The decades-long story of a monumental container of utopias: the former Marchiondi-Spagliardi Institute, located in the western suburbs of Milan.