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Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI: What led a gendarme's son from Marktl am Inn to the most powerful office in Christianity? What was his charisma, where were his limits? Will the pontificate of Benedict XVI. be remembered, or rather the great Council theologian Joseph Ratzinger? Martin Posselt draws the intellectual portrait of a man who shaped the faith of the Catholic Church on the threshold of the 3rd millennium like no other.

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra.

Shot in the Dark is a documentary on three blind photographers: Pete Eckert, Sonia Soberats and Bruce Hall. A documentary on three blind people who devote their lives to creating images. What do they see in their mind's eyes? Do they sense that which we sighted miss, overlook, or don't take into consideration? Their images, as we sighted can see, are extraordinary. "Even with no input the brain keeps creating images," says Pete Eckert. Sonia Soberats states, "I only understood how powerful light is after I went blind." Shot in the Dark is a journey into an unfamiliar yet fascinating realm. "My camera is like a bridge," claims Bruce Hall. All these photographers embrace fantasy, chance, and contingency at a fundamental level. Shot in the Dark enriches our understanding of perception and creation. We all close our eyes in sleep, the sighted and blind alike, and in our dreams - we see.

In his short stories, Israeli writer Etgar Keret mixes fantasy and reality. His own life story also comes across as a modern fairy tale. In this hybrid documentary, the filmmakers investigate why storytelling is essential for Keret's survival.

As the summer's drawing to an end, Yanis and Noé, two teenagers who are both fans of the rapper Jul, meet up one last time to say goodbye before school starts again. For Yanis, this will be the last day of his childhood.

Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wife Helen find they've got more than they bargained for: a killer shed with an appetite for blood. As the body count rises, and the shed's ferocious appetite grows, Jack is faced with a horrifying dilemma.

PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant political certainties.

'In 2007 just before moving to Berlin, I made Lerne Deutsch mit Petra von Kant / Learn German with Petra von Kant in which I tried to learn to speak and act like a German by closely emulating the actress Margit Carstensen in the role of fashion designer Petra von Kant, suffering a mid-life-career-crisis in Rainer Werner Fassbinder´s 1972 film Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant). I invited ten of my students to make this work with me to commemorate ten (mostly) productive years of German integration. A broad spectrum of young artists in Berlin, some of whom were as new to the city as I had been in 2007, collectively transformed into this new and restlessly changing figure of Petra von Kant of the new millenium.' (Ming Wong)

Livvy Haydock explores the secretive world of gang girls, to understand the real stories behind the rising trend in sexual exploitation and violence against girls by gang members - and discovers how quickly female victims turn perpetrators.

Finnish folk metal band in 2 live shows filmed at the Masters of Rock festival in Vizovice, Czech Republic.

Clara is a girl who can not show herself the way she is. There is something with her that forces her to live under a name and appearance that aren't real. 'No soy él' is the first trans short film in Galiza's history.

AFTER THE FUTURE is an exposé about the conflicted and complex life of a long term HIV survivor Ortwin Passon. Despite years of struggle with the physical and mental assaults of HIV, he continues to fulfill his need for unrestrained ecstasy. Privately he battles loneliness and grieves for his past lovers, now long dead. Publicly, Ortwin has a distinguished history of service with the Federal Agency for Technical Relief. For this service he is a twelve time recipient of Public Honours. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Federal Cross of Merit for his esteemed work and social engagement. However, he refused this award as an act of conscience against a Government he perceives to be oppressive of his deeply held beliefs with regards to civil liberties. These feelings of oppression are in direct conflict with Ortwin's unrestrained sexual proclivities. At group sex parties, he's having sex with other men under the influence of hard drugs, without using condoms.

Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.

Filmed in Libercourt in the Pas-de-Calais, "Un figuier au pied du terril" orchestrates various testimonies, in particular those of Nanass and Hélène, two grandmothers of Algerian and Polish origin respectively, highlighting in turn the colonial management of the working-class population, male domination and the residential segregation to which Nanass's descendants are still subjected.
The dialectic of the film does not exclude moments of poetry, in Nanass's garden, where the fig tree, which is the same age as Nanass's stay in France, is still cherished even though the cold prevents it from bearing fruit. The humble tree from the South transplanted to the land of the North is seen as an allegory for the family of this amazing grandmother, forever uprooted but still standing, who continues to hope for the good days when her "family tree" can finally bear full fruit...

For this magical pre-recorded viewing of the Disneyland® Paris classic, “Disney Illuminations" you’re front and center for the amazing special effects and fireworks at Sleeping Beauty Castle. Prepare to hold your breath and “ahhhh” as the show recreates iconic Disney moments in ways you never thought possible!

Short movie by Giulio Squillacciotti.

A bullied teenage girl finally confronts her sister to drag their fractured past out into the light.

An anthology collection of short horror tales.

Eidolon: dream-image, apparition, phantom, ghost. Three dreams in three voices navigate a garden of forking paths. With texts from Horace, Freud’s Wolf Man and an anonymous late 20C dreamer, a film in Super8 and HD about magical nightmares, memory and loss.

Short movie by Ra di Martino.

Jonathan and Elizabeth are deeply in love. But their relationship is tested when Elizabeth becomes afflicted by a devastating illness. Follow Jonathan's emotional journey as he struggles to deal with inevitable tragedy, and discover what lengths he's willing to go to, For Her.

Surrounded by his drawings, papers, photos and figurines, a man loses touch with reality as he remembers an aggression he experienced.

In Laos, a teenage adolescent encounters a Buddhist novice. During a party, they sing karaoke together.

QT aka Quinn Thomas is an international pop star and CEO of "Super Natural" energy drink ‘Drink QT’. We Join QT as she journeys to South Korea to explore new ways in which we communicate through tastes and flavours using her research to inform a multi-sensory debut performance in Seoul.

A small town, two families joined together over time. A man who does not forget the values ​​of honor and fraternal friendship. From the director of The Journey to the Sea, history proposes the coalition of two worlds or, perhaps, the same but with different ways of understanding it.

Set in an alternate Cold War America, President Keates and the First Lady are secured deep below ground after retaliatory action.

Documentary about a 90 year old farmer living alone in the countryside.

Yoan lives haunted by his nightmares. The anguish for the absence of his father and the visions of spirits that besiege him at night, prevent him from falling asleep.

A pilot is trapped in a crumbling, abandoned airport. Naeem Mohaiemen's first fiction film is based on when his father was stranded without a passport in Athens' Ellinikon International Airport for nine days in 1977.

A short and strange tale. The idea for it came about after a rather brief and spontaneous chat about milk cartons.

A young woman tries to reconstruct the trip her friend took to Brazil for the Football World Cup. While she has no news of him, she relies on the images he sent her to find his trace.

Fifty years on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, this BBC Two documentary explores how safe it is to be gay in Britain today. With homophobic hate crime on the rise, this film takes a 360 degree look at the issue, hearing from the victims, their families and the police. What makes someone attack another person because of their sexuality? How do victims deal with these unsolicited and unprovoked assaults? And what are we doing about this in Britain in 2017?

Vanessa is perfect for the job, but...

The story behind the “American Pie” album featuring all new interviews with Don McLean, the producer Ed Freeman and musicians involved in making the record.

Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the face of modern Europe, unleashing fundamentalism, terror and religious violence.

After filming police shooting a black man, an amateur journalist takes to the streets to capture the ensuing protests. When he is attacked by riot police, he must decide whether to remain a witness or use his footage to fight back.

In this cheeky comedy debut, two thieving boys take refuge at the local church in a small Irish town. When the parish priest leaves behind his briefcase, they embark on a self-appointed mission from God. But on their epic journey to the big city, the boys discover that the grown up world is a bit more complicated than it seems.

A promising young author and father-to-be seeks to fix the broken relationship between him and his father against the time constraints of the latter's terminal illness.

An immense love, a car accident that takes away the great love of your life, a dark life full of pain, then suddenly a return to the past and the chance to bring your loved one back to life...