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Law student Cassian, can't seem to let go of his high school sweetheart, Victoria, who seems to have moved on without him. And there's this mystery girl that lingers in his mind like perfume in an old house. With the pressure of the future and the state of the world weighing heavily on him, how will Cassian confront everything he's trying to run from?
Set against the Festival of Black Divinities in Togo, this captivating documentary explores the origins, resilience, and contemporary relevance of African spiritual traditions before and beyond Christianity and Islam.
A year in Berlin: Leonie wanders through the city and the texts of Anna Maria Ortese. Speaking with friends and translator Sigrid Vagt, she is also looking for the narrative threads of her own life. A film of reading shot in glowing, matter-of-fact 16mm.
After the death of his partner Li, amateur photographer Peter Kräuchi photographed the view from his house daily in an attempt to accept the passing of time.
During the hottest days in England's history, lonely teenager Ray falls in love with a beautiful young woman. As they spend the summer together, they come to learn how love can be stronger than anything.
After getting fired from his job, an ambitious loser attempts to rally his two friends together to get revenge on the man who fired him.
Pained by grief and equipped with a special device, Changez enters his memories to revisit his love.
So, now I’ve ended up here. A bump at the tip of England with the prettiest pebbles in the world. Shingle, they call it here. A cottage full of memories and ghosts, perhaps. I’m allowed to stay for two weeks. I have the cottage completely to myself. The nights are cold, but I sleep warm in the big bed made of dark wood, which is like a boat.
A free-flowing river projects its own images.
A lonely petrol station attendant summons a spirit to make his wishes come true, but finds himself confronted by something sinister.
A leading figure in French music, Albin de la Simone revisits his repertoire alongside Jozef Dumoulin and Fabrice Moreau. These songs are waiting to be rediscovered through the lens of jazz at Jazz sous les Pommiers.
Feature film directed by Hamza Pool, currently in post-production, style and plot kept under wraps.
In conservative southwestern Germany, four people face a fundamental challenge in their quest to find a path to a happier life. In doing so, everything changes for them. At one point in their lives, they knew with every fiber of their being that things could not continue as they were and that a major change in their lives was necessary. Otherwise, there would be no escape from their emotional chaos and no hope for a happier future. Their names are Gabriel, Elisabeth, Melina, and Dunja. Before, they had different names, different lives, and different genders.
When Indie books an Airbnb, she has no idea the owner, Keira, is competing for the same dream job. What begins as an awkward encounter soon turns into late-night confessions, as their opposing views on love and connection collide. By the day of the interview, both women must decide - is love a risk not worth taking, or the only truth worth pitching?
For Reminiscence of a Moviegoer, filmmaker Christiane Büchner works extensive interviews with the late Werner Dütsch, a commissioning editor at the German television station WDR, and massively influential figure in postwar West German film culture, into a moving portrait of cinephilia through time.
Keeper Clive is running out of supplies on his lighthouse somewhere in the Northern Seas. In his despair, he plays a sad tune on his horn, when a large whale notices him. As his supply ship sinks in a violent thunderstorm and his lighthouse buoy springs a leak, he has to expect the worst – if it weren’t for the great whale….
Antu is a 10-year-old girl who was born blind. Thanks to her unusual sensitivity and curiosity, she discovers the world around her in detail. Aboard an old truck, she travels across Argentina with her parents, showing films in small, forgotten towns and imagining the stories she will never be able to see.
A psychological portrait of two lovers who have grown to hate one another, who are well beyond their breaking point and must separate. Taking inspiration from aspects of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller's fated marriage as a springboard for content and style, NEVADA is a contemporary experimental study about humans and how exhausting hatred can be, while also examining themes of identity and guilt.
Through the intertwined voices of three sex workers from Colombia, Chile, and Italy, this poetic and performative documentary unites their stories into a single poetic body, dissolving the boundaries of culture, history, and identity to reveal how the experiences of sex work are profoundly tied to the broader history of the female condition itself.
Through thoughtful letters from prison, an anarchist incarcerated since 1980 reflects on his radical past.
During the peak of summer, two best friends go on a walk through the countryside, but beneath the serene landscape lies a simmering tension, as one of them harbors a secret that will change everything.
BROOM BROOM FOLLAR is one of Vigo’s most famous urban legends. Two teenagers died on their moped doing what they loved most: having sex whilst speeding down the road. Now their ghosts roam the Vigo estuary, having sex by the roadside to the roar of their motorbike.
A group of hungover film students must race against the clock in order to finish a university project after a wild party leaves their flat, and their footage, in total chaos.
After surgery for a torn ligament, a dog named Travis begins a slow and painful recovery.
An experimental short film that contrasts the beauty and intrinsic optimism of the coming of Spring with the grimy digital textures of lo-fi video. Backed by an atmospheric soundscape of distant birdsong, distorted static, and otherworldly sounds, the work explores evocative and contemplative themes of reminiscence, nostalgia and environmentalism.
With stars of the screen, it is often only the Edgar Morin-like myth that remains; but viewed close up, an actress’s lifetime has more to do with destiny, and in Marina Vlady’s case, that destiny is unclassifiable, with over eighty classic films and more that were never released. It is across France, Italy, and chiefly Russia that this documentary, chock-full of rare archive material, takes us as it traces the journey of a free woman, making this not simply a documentary but a political film.
He saw Odysseus in a boat on the Aegean Sea, and since then he knew he might never come home again.
A hitwoman faces a trial... of values.
After losing his parents in an accident, Jason Gaterson slowly begins going crazy
An unorthodox therapist uses his questionable tactics to help a couple's issues.
A girl is walking home from a party when all of a sudden, strange things start popping into her mind. Is this reality? Is this fake?
Examining interrogation as a performed scene, staged through gesture, repetition, set-up, and technical props. Taking the polygraph as its recurring prop, the work traces the script that structures interrogation. The formulaic scenes from police training films and film noir are punctured by a near-human test figure that shadows the characters’ movements, pulling their choreography into view. Across these fragments, interrogation reads like rehearsal. Repeated often enough, its staged action turns into procedure.
Up bright and early with their pet in tow, Zohra Bouderbala and her five children are heading to the beach. This is not a drill! In Algiers, the coveted front row spot waits for no one, but it’s not this family’s first time having to beat the summer seaside crowds. The unmotivated and out-of-luck masses who arrive too late will be left to a viewless laze in the sun, the alleged horizon blocked by a fortress of parasols and flowing canopies.
Dana and Lydia are facing a serious trust issue in their relationship. After an argument that threatens to tear them apart, Lydia decides to accompany Dana to her grandfather’s house, where his wife has just passed away. There, the elderly man, driven by despair, becomes possessed by a demonic force and begins to hunt them down. Together, they must resolve their differences and learn to trust one another in order to survive.
Frether Warmak, a private investigator with thirty years of experience, is called to the scene of an apparent homicide: a dog-sitter has been found dead in her home, the front door wide open and every dog she was caring for gone without a trace. Accompanied by his young partner Lucas Mancini, he begins interviewing witnesses — none of whom turn out to be particularly reliable. With no solid leads, Frether reluctantly steps away from the case, until a chance encounter on the street puts him face to face with a crucial, unexpected clue.
Growing up alongside her non-verbal brother with a developmental disability, Jinhyun has always sensed the invisible boundaries society draws between them. Her film journeys through the institutions marked by abuse, tracing the shape of a world built on exclusion.
In the mirror, a woman takes care of herself.
Based on the historical land survey by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Christian Ludwig Gerling, ‘Maps of Wilderness’ explores the limits of measurability. Precise tools encounter weather, distance and that which cannot be fully captured. Analogue animation techniques and a text by Daniela Danz are the starting points for new perspectives by seven female artists.
On her 23rd birthday, Amaia says nothing to see who remembers. Her roommates ignore her and her family lets her down. Fed up, she orders a pizza, sparking a surreal night with the only person who wishes her a happy birthday: the delivery guy.
Behind-the-scenes footage from a recreation of American Psycho. From Swedish Llama’s Dream Journal.
An immersive documentary project about Algerian youth. Filmed at night inside a car in Algiers, the journey becomes a space for free expression. I explore a fragile, often overlooked wisdom, born from intimate thoughts too frequently silenced or dismissed.