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After the last film played at the legendary Arsenal arthouse cinema in Tübingen, director Goggo Gensch accompanies founder Stefan Paul – filmmaker, distributor, and tireless cineast – on a journey to the screens that shaped Germany’s arthouse cinema movement. Paul and companions tell of the beginnings of arthouse cinemas in the 1970s and their daily struggle for survival. Icons like John Waters and Wim Wenders contribute personal memories, while the Hof International Film Festival celebrates underground films.

Ricciolidò is a miniature woman who lives in a world structured on different proportions. Even the simplest everyday gestures are, for her, an opportunity to challenge her own limits. In this story, the female body of a small woman becomes a physical metaphor for the struggle that many are forced to face in order to assert themselves in a society structured to suit men.

A brother and sister reunite to scatter their dad's ashes. They follow his guidance but find themselves repeating the past.

An innumerable host of working-class angels, invisible to the human eye, labour tirelessly on earth to power our machines and to keep our homes warm and light. When one day some of them attempt to escape, a massive blackout follows and the world as we know it is thrown into chaos.

Seasoned mobster Ritchie misses his holiday to help initiate Taylor clean up his mess.

Former England men's football manager Gareth Southgate reveals the struggles many boys and young men face, asking why some feel left behind and what could help them move forward.

Across Europe, two women went looking for what it means to become a mother today. But the solitude of motherhood is a shared sentiment everywhere.

When Gordon calls a sports radio phone-in to rant about the footballer Jack Grealish, he reveals a bit too much about his deepest desires.

With irony and lightness, the pair of authors intertwines their story with that of the Roman neighborhood of Torpignattara, between intimacy and collective memory, with a meta-narrative approach that layers different narrative dimensions around the themes of the nursery.

On 23 March 2025 in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, Israeli forces massacred fifteen Palestinian aid workers travelling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles, later burying their bodies and vehicles in a shallow mass grave. Earshot and Forensic Architecture worked with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and survivors of the massacre to reconstruct the incident with unprecedented precision. The Last Responders is an investigative documentary about this massacre. Anchored in the situated testimonies of two survivors, the film draws on firsthand video and voice recordings captured during the night of the attack by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Through these materials, the film probes acts of execution and concealment, while reconstructing a fuller account of what unfolded in Tel al-Sultan in the hours and days that followed.

Four students investigate mysterious lights above a government-restricted meadow.

Claudio's house is a magical place where every room is a world of colors and sensations that set the imagination free. A circus. He's acrobat, performer, circus artist, capable of turning every moment into a scene. Claudio has lived for the stage his entire life, and when the audience disappears and his children grow up, life beyond the spotlight becomes the hardest challenge of all. Between attempts to reinvent himself, old acts to dust off, and new ideas to stay afloat, he faces the weight of time, loneliness, in a world moving far too fast. Ironic, tender, and deeply human, "Sul filo" is the journey of an artist, balancing between laughter and melancholy, telling what it means to keep existing when the spotlight fades.

Along the fragile border that separates and unites life and death, men and women cross the extreme landscapes of ending, searching in the silence of the contemporary world for one last fragment of meaning.

A river: the Esla. A region: Tierra de la Reina. A dam and a wildfire, destruction from water and destruction from fire, two ways of losing paradise. A forest saved by a miracle and a valley in danger. Local people who write and a stranger who reads, listens and looks.

An archive of personal photos and a voiceover tell the story of the dissipation of memory after the loss of sight.

The films ventriloquize the machine, tracing the movement of people, things and ideas across precarious value chains as a way of understanding how the world works. Moscow Hotel is Sick of Your Tears observes the migration of the sacred onto platforms — from 9th-century Sabian talismans to TikTok divinatory filters, the sky has yielded to the screen and algorithmic feeds now function as constellations one consults to seek advice, demand justice, curse or heal. First Phone then summons an NPC animated by an AI egregore, observing climate collapse and geopolitical violence as background noise within the data stream. Finally, Plastic Pilgrims takes this logic to its conclusion: a stolen, resold and repaired phone narrates its long journey in the first person, circulating between Shenzhen's electronics architectures, second-hand markets, repair workshops, smuggling networks and streaming platforms.

Behind the front lines, war inflicts a different kind of slow violence: 15-hour blackouts, constant air-raid sirens, and endless grief. Moving away from active combat, this intimate documentary explores the resilient home front where ordinary Ukrainians stubbornly rebuild their shattered lives. From a kindergarten teacher protecting children to a sculptor honoring fallen soldiers, the film captures a collective exhaustion paired with fierce resistance. It delivers a moving testament to human endurance, proving that in the face of absolute destruction, the simple act of living becomes the ultimate rebellion.

In May 2025, artist filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky collaboratively devised scenarios and filmed with people arrested and tried for pro-Palestinian activism. Together they built sets and performed idealised re-enactments of their police interviews and trials, re-enactments in which they said what they weren’t allowed to say in their real interviews and trials. In July 2025, the group with which some of those participants took action was banned as a terrorist organisation and an unprecedented crackdown on the language of Palestinian liberation began.

An experimental film, developed from an interactive installation and composed of 64 episodes. Its structure is based on coin tosses and the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes," where chance determines the order of events, editing, and the very logic of the narrative. The film follows the journey of several people through different spaces, the flow of unpredictable events in their lives, and the unexpected intersections of their destinies.

There are people who spend their entire lives in the same house, their childhood home where their family history rests. Benigno, at eighty-eight years old, still sleeps, eats, and dreams in the home where he was born, the home that is rooted in the earth to reach for the sky. The house stands alone, alongside Benigno and his tortoise Totó, adrift in the limbo of memories, the ritual of daily life, and the anticipation of the final day. Adjacent to the house is his vegetable garden, which he visits daily to tend to his chickens and work the soil with the seeds inherited from his ancestors, which he ceremoniously catalogs and preserves.

A block of rental apartments becomes the scene of an unprecedented massacre when a mysterious plague of man-eating sternocleidomastoids quench their thirst for blood with the neighborhood.

Having already achieved the chart double in 2025, star of the moment Olivia Dean has enjoyed an incredible start to the year. She swept the Brit Awards with four wins, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, alongside a Grammy win and a number one single with Sam Fender. And if that wasn’t enough, the record-breaking artist is now set to tick off another major milestone at Radio 1’s Big Weekend as she headlines the festival for the very first time. Closing the weekend at Sunderland’s Herrington Country Park, Olivia takes to the Main Stage with her soulful storytelling and summer-ready sound for an unforgettable finale packed with fan favourites, warmth and joy.

Kira and her brother Lino, with stockings over their heads and pepper spray in their hands, ambush a notorious loan shark, the Viennese, in the back alley of a rundown gambling hall. The stick-up succeeds, but Lino's nose breaks. To make matters worse, the Viennese and his colleague, the Butcher, are on their way to the far-off hotel to retrieve what rightfully belongs to the Austrian crime syndicate.

60 AD. Romans tighten their grip on Britannia. Druidism is hunted almost to extinction. after being driven out of their commune, Rhiain- a young druid and her master Gwen are forced to flee and traverse the wilds of Britannia in order to reach the sanctuary of the Druids - Ynys Môn. On their journey they will encounter great challenges and unlikely allies on a quest that will decide not only their survival, but the future of their way of life itself.

A young person make a dream about the passing of his best friend.

Maia is a broken and sleeping woman. Leo, her partner, is a manipulative monster who enjoys nullifying her and subjugating his entire circle. Maia's present is intertwined with her past, like two divergent worlds that fight. A book is the key. A party at sea, the awakening.

Below the surface, the alien is us. Filmed entirely underwater with natural light and ambient sound, MARE SAPIENS moves through the Bay of Marseille as a space where living forms, infrastructures, and machines coexist. The film assembles a sensory field without commentary or hierarchy, letting the sea appear not as background or resource, but as a milieu that absorbs, resists, and persists.

Madai, Shanel, Rosmer, and Victoria have been forcibly displaced from their homes and, after a long and dangerous migration journey in search of a better future in the United States, their dreams are cut short. However, their paths cross at an LGBTQ+ shelter in Guatemala City, where they receive support, protection, and, most importantly, form a deep friendship. Together, they discover their inner resilience and find new opportunities to rebuild their lives, holding on to the hope that, despite the challenges, the future still offers them a new beginning.

A documentary on the story of the cinema Muranów in Warsaw.

He saw Odysseus in a boat on the Aegean Sea, and since then he knew he might never come home again.

A young woman, Elowyn, is thrown into the re-education centre for breaking the Marriage Act. She must endure Officer Killian’s brutal lessons at the centre and find hope in unlikely places, although her cellmate Hannah warns her to do nothing. When escape is not an option, how can Elowyn remain unbound?

In a voice message, a non-binary person talks about the healing process after a mastectomy. A drawn room becomes a playful setting in which memories, role models, and friends are present through small details.