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First part of the trilogy on language, on the birth of writing.

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) traveled around Berlin as a journalist for decades. His books “Walks through the Mark Brandenburg” contain very rich and remote cultural, historical, ethnographic and biographical sources. Bernhard Sallmann takes passages from it that he confronts with the current shape of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

A disowned ex-muslim travels back to his family home after hearing terrible news. However, things have changed in his family and in his home town.

A Fox-dressed man breaks the space time limits with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. But bellow this recreational act there's a far more complex and ambitious plan.

A family breaks up. On the day that Marcos and his little brother have to choose one of their parents, Marcos tries to convince Sergio to go live with his father. However, Sergio does not want to get away from his mother. The adult dispute will become yours: a divorce does not destroy just a marriage, but an entire family.

The story of the relationship between writer, literary critic and publisher T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and his second wife Esmé Valerie Fletcher (1926-2012).

Violence sets the scene in this metaphorically screened crime story told from a gun’s perspective. Has Mya what it takes to turn Blacka away from his beloved companion of death. They say opposites attract; but is this attraction enough to change him?

One was a Black human rights leader who had achieved global notoriety. The other was a young Marxist Oxford student from Pakistan looking to bring radical change to the British establishment. When they met in December 1964, Malcolm X's life of activism was about to come to a tragic end, but Tariq Ali's journey was just beginning. This is the story of a brief but impactful friendship that, 50 years later, still ripples through England today, told by Ali, civil rights historians, and rarely seen footage of Malcolm X's overseas visit.

When the flight attendant, Anna, arrives in London Heathrow after a long-haul flight from New York, she's exhausted and terribly irritable. Another bland hotel room just adds to her moody emotional state. A chance meeting with a good-looking man in the bar perks up her evening and the two quickly hook up for the night. When Anna wakes the following morning, she finds herself covered in blood and the man brutally murdered in her bed. Who did it? The circumstance put her in a difficult situation to call the police, but what is she going to do now? How do you get rid of a body trapped in a hotel room? Anna will race against time to put the pieces together to discover a terrible truth.

Seventies in Italy. In Sardinia a group of criminals kidnaps a well-known public figure in search of redemption. For Giovanni, the leader of a small but determined local gang, known for his long kidnappings on the inland hills, will be an opportunity to confront a wiser and more informed person than he is. Inspired by the true story of Fabrizio De Andrè.

British journalist Trevor McDonald revisits the Cromwell Street "House of Horrors"; one of the most disturbing and depraved crime cases in the UK.

Just 40 years ago it was illegal to be gay in Scotland, now the country is a leader in LGBTQ+ rights – and Glasgow is home to a thriving drag scene. This documentary takes a glimpse behind the make-up, wigs and corsets to find out what it takes to live a life in drag, why people do it and the daily battles drag queens still face, following three queens at different stages in their drag careers. Barbara La Bush, the self-proclaimed ‘oldest queen in Glasgow’, represents traditional end-of-the-pier drag. She must come to terms with ailing health and the insecurity of a working life spent on the clubs and pubs circuit. Lawrence Chaney, part of the Instagram generation of highly looks-focused performers, seeks approval from a mainstream culture that is out of her comfort zone. And new queen Voss must battle the prejudices of a job in the merchant navy as well as gain parental acceptance.

Witness the rise of All Elite Wrestling and look ahead to Double Or Nothing with this special documentary, 'Before The Bell', made exclusively for ITV.

A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.

Sofia travels the streets of Venice feeling the pain of an unexpected loss. Absence, silence, but also fate, life and its magic, the city, its people and its unfamiliar streets all fill her failed stay in one of the most emblematic and longed cities to live a honeymoon.

The collective of antipatriarchal men is a political organization that, since 2010, organizes spaces of group self-reflection to problematize the role of masculinity for those who identify as and/or are read as men. This documentary was filmed around one of their yearly regional forums.

The pair of mannequins in the mattress section seem the ideal couple: Handsome, elegant and perfect. But when the mall closes and the lights go out, things are quite different.

This film portrait shows Ulrich Tukur on the stage of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, where his career began, on the stage of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall and on his Tuscan farm. This is where he retreats when he needs peace and quiet. This private approach provides a very personal view of the actor, musician and writer Ulrich Tukur.

Anna Kilius and Sara Russo are friends. Sara's goal is to shame Anna, who does not have a lot of romance. They go out in a box. In the middle of the night, Sara, exhausted, decides to go back while Anna stays. At dawn, Anna wakes up near a suburban station. She is drugged, raped. Anna is confronted by a skeptical policeman. Vexed, she does not complain. Anna starts the hunt for her rapist thanks to hyperosmia, a large olfactory memory and a keen sense of smell. Thanks to the sexual pheromones, she thinks she finds the rapist. From that moment, all his certainties rock. Is this the right person?

In this documentary, fourteen people across the world reveal their unique connection to water. We the Bathers holds up an intimate lens to a series of disparate lives, leading us to consider how our bathing rituals might be shaped by our identities. Through a startling juxtaposition of stories from a grieving East Londoner, to a Sicilian sex worker, to a Japanese Buddhist monk, each person is given a platform to speak candidly about their experiences without restraint. Water is life.

After a long period of isolation, Antonin rediscovers the world in a bird shelter where, rocked by the noise of planes, troubled souls are saved just as much as the birds.

Donald Trump want to win that award a week.

An asshole and his little cousin are asked to carry the market from the trunk of a car to their apartment. The asshole takes advantage and makes his directorial debut in this "Documentary" while using his poor cousin as a slave. Great shabby documentary about anxiety, routine and the fragility of existence.

It explores the challenges facing wild horses around the world and the efforts being made to preserve their existence.

When Hamburg University was founded in 1919, it was proud to be the first university of a new, democratic Germany. But the university didn't come from nothing.

A present moment, a memory or a wish.

The emergence of contemporary human, a struggle between memory, reason and conscience.

Short docudrama exploring the history of sex in the homosexual community from the 1970s to the present day, and how the internet has changed the way gay men meet forever.

With astonishing access, BBC Three explores how gang members are using teenage drug runners to sell large amounts of crack and heroin miles away from home.

An overview on the problem of waste management in the Dominican Republic, more specifically plastics.

Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre’s performance of Sharon Watson’s Windrush: Movement of the People toured the UK to wide acclaim. Now captured on film and screening at LIFF 2019, the performance is the first contemporary dance work to explore the narrative of the arrival of SS Empire Windrush that brought the first Caribbean migrants to the UK. The work is a lively celebration of the rise of multicultural Britain and features an uplifting soundtrack from calypso, jazz, gospel and reggae with original music created by Christella Litras and features set and costume design by Eleanor Bull.

Kamal Aljafari’s short film once again collapses time, questioning the meaning of life in a system in which humanity is reduced to a number and the value of one’s future is measured by applications within grey hallways. Step into this black hole, where bones and flesh have become numbers in a queuing system. This surreal film observes the origins of our being versus the future of how we are defined. What have we become from our point of origin until today’s chaos of bureaucratic mazes? It’s a long way from Amphioxus, we all came from there.

What should we do today with poems from the past ? Why do poetry today and how ? Sitting behind his desk, Michel Deguy, great living poet, speaks, smokes and thinks with the same generous enthusiasm. Marie-Claude Treilhou records the thinking words, articulates their development through a series of readings or sung recitations of the poems dissected by their author. Fathoming the depths of “ecopoeticology” of Deguy, Comme si, comme ça makes up the most sober and vivid of portraits. “Without ever bragging”, as suggested by the contemporary ethics the poet formulates in the film.

The interface of contrary realities is torn. Passion and fear of unbelievable strength are connecting and scattering the siblings. What remains: the search for love - the getaway into another reality?

A promising youngster of the 'Posh-Milan', Davide, finally has an invitation for the most glamorous club in Milan and the most exclusive event of the season, Dorsia. However, due to an error on the list he will be rejected by the bouncer. He embarks on a series of attempts to get inside. Through a mosaic of encounters with typical characters of the Milan's night scene and his continuous failings, his well constructed mask of charisma will fall, showing a different face beneath it.

An intimate portrait of a couple raising their child gender neutral.

In 1967 the anthropologist G. Reichel-Dolmatoff published a study on a Colombian aboriginal culture, although the tribe in question was not visited and the only informant interviewed was very far from its cultural environment and tribal territory. In addition, he discovered a relationship between hallucinations and the phosphene formula. From FICCI

Two kids, brothers, discover Triskipolis, the hidden city of elves, with the help of their uncle.

Three wives, very devoted to their patron San Girolamo, when they learn that their church will be closed and the saint's statue transferred to a museum near Naples decides to steal it. But they will have a surprise...

Hopscotch and the Christmas Tree is the heart-warming story of Hopscotch, a horse, and her animal friends at Christmas and aims to teach children that when they stay positive, sometimes they find the best solutions right under their noses.

Lennard is 18 and incapable of making any decisions. Well, except running away to Berlin and moving into a flat share, along with easygoing Ben and crazy Fine. Yet Lennard has a lot of roommates already…at least in his head: Macho Boris and his female side Helena, sensible Sophia with Lennard’s inner child Theo, feisty Tess and, of course, his personified anxiety Jürgen. And each one tells Lennard their opinion without being asked. No wonder Lennard can’t make up his mind. Especially when it comes to love, his inner cinema is rising to new heights. And neither Fine nor Ben know who they have brought into their apartment. And above all, how many!

On the eve of an inevitable exodus to urban centers, the youth of Témiscamingue are torn between the quest for a better future and their attachment to their homeland.

The original image or the first image. That of the first film, that of all the promises. The matrix image announcing all those to come. The history of cinema is full of legendary first movies, master strokes rather than test shots. There is a lot to be learned from the early plants of estrean directors who later became great filmmakers.

M. James Work is at the origin of the creation of the Time Watch, watch allowing to skip time according to the needs of its users. But one day, this one bugs during 10min, and condemns its users to disappear for an unknown amount of time. One evening of December, Elise, a young woman, finds herself free from bug after one year of disappearance, without knowing how she got out of it.

A film about the search for your own truth, by and with Andy Brings (Ex-Sodom, Double Crush Syndrome).

Paul comes out of the hospital where, after a series of tests, his doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. Devastated by this news, he decides to hit the roads of France.