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Portrait of Marianne, a young woman in trouble.

Matilde can't fall asleep. There's someone inside her closet. In a long night of terror, Matilde will have to face her monsters.

The Bundschuhs buy an old manor house, which of course is very popular with all family members. So Hadi and Rose, Ilse and Susanne nest there, but don't even think about helping Gundula with the necessary renovation work. To make matters worse, the monument conservationist von Sternberg gets in the way, who is closely monitoring the renovation work in the listed property.

Alone in the center of a barren square, an old man collapses. Passers-by who gravitate around avoid it, ignore it or come to its aid. The sudden interest of journalists in this man will lead us into a grotesque and absurd media vortex questioning our relationship to society and the media. From benevolent help to TV shows, our winter hero becomes the number one subject of our society. It becomes an experience of the absence.

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are now neglected and unloved.

On the cold, mean streets of Sheffield, a transgender superhero is born. Gaining powers unlike any other hero, this documentary examines the ins and outs of what it truly means to be a Spider Transgender Person

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.

In 2017, Julia C. Kaiser receives a scholarship as a filmmaker. The only problem is that she can't work. Reasons for this include confusing experiences with the acting production during the shooting of her last film. In order to free herself from this crisis, she organizes a workshop at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media as part of the scholarship. Together with the acting students, she tries to find out in recurring and changing film scenes and acting constellations, as well as in personal conversations, when we play which role - and whether we ever fail to do so.

The arrival of a mysterious engraving about Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian at the Historic Palace of the Aljafería (Zaragoza) awakens the spirit of its old inquisitors, reviving the invincible designs of guilt and desire.

Berlioz is a young, overqualified man who can't find a job. In order to avoid being struck off the unemployment register, he accepts an offer of a highly responsible job removing all the push pins from the wall of an empty building.

Self-taught magician, transformist at the Grande Eugène cabaret, man of theater, television and cinema, Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus has been dragging his inimitable drawl wherever he wants. Able to play the Diva for Michel Audiard as well as for Werner Herzog. Loubard one day for Gilles Béhat and Duke of Orleans the next day for Rohmer. We often met him with Mocky or Boisset, more mysteriously with Tommy Chong and remains permanently anchored in our memories thanks to his performance in Delicatessen or Marie's ads, depending on the genre. Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus is one of those marginal people, adventurers a bit crazy, often poet and above all a bon vivant, in short, a species on the way to extinction. The directors wanted to meet the character and remember this extravagant little life.

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

The paths of young nurse Larissa and homeless Peter cross again and again. One encounter in the night has a lasting effect on Larissa and even in her dreams she can't let go. Finally, the next day, she is led to Peter one last time.

A famous Italian-American writer of horror novels goes to Italy to spend a few days in an old house on the coast. The history of the house begins to manifest itself with hallucinations, which the writer notes as ideas for his novel. He then meets some locals who tell him the story of a cult who came to the house in the 1970s to build a temple dedicated to Satan.

The extraordinary rise of Olympic boxing champion, record-breaker, feminist and LGBT icon Nicola Adams. From the streets of Leeds to the world stage, Adams fought her way to the top and changed the game. This, is her story.

Friedrich Nietzsche's Zarathustra returns in the shape of a female travelling teacher seeking shelter at the Alpine chalet of a bourgeois family.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The workers of Cine Ciutat, a cooperative cinema that screens auteur films in original version, struggle to keep the business open, despite their own psychological exhaustion, economic difficulties, lack of spectators and aging equipment.

From Le Petit Rapporteur to Sous vos applaudissements, from La Lorgnette to L'Ecole des fans, everyone remembers the mythical programs of Jacques Martin, the Sunday afternoon emperor. Through rare archives and the testimonies of his close friends and collaborators, this documentary reveals the hidden sides of this sacred television monster who would have liked to be an artist.

Mari is a maid—she is a woman like any other, but she’s also unique. This film discovers, with amazing precisions, the layers of her uniqueness and her attempts to emancipate herself, build herself and, perhaps, leave a traumatic past behind.

Treyvon has everything, well almost everything. He's got the fast car, good city job, model looks - even a good sense of humor, and yep - a body to die for. The only thing missing is that one special somebody. Ever since he embarrassed a young woman who asked him for a date, his love life has been cursed. Now, over 15 years later, he is trying to break the spell.

An essay by Anchoress director Chris Newby that explores parallels between COVID lockdown in the UK and Christine Carpenter’s experience as an anchoress, featuring outtakes from the film.

Julienne is a young cannibal who meets her victims through a dating app. One day she meets Sabrina and can't help but fall in love with her dinner.

The emotional need and the fear of exposing themselves make Etna and Dario learn to cope with loneliness.

The life of Jorge, 12, eldest son of a modest Spanish family of the 90s, turns upside down when the emotional turmoil caused by his sexual awakening is mixed with an accusation against his father, an art teacher, of an alleged sexual harassment of a 16-year-old girl, which disintegrates his family nucleus. His attempts to try to understand and overcome events lead Jorge to a new vision of his father, his family and his own nature.

Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised together with street singer Friedrich Steinhauer, who called himself “die Nachtigall vom Ramersdorf” (The Nightingale of Ramersdorf), and Luzi Kryn, who became famous for her role in Praunheim’s film DIE BETTWURST. Now, more than 30 years later, Rosa von Praunheim has filmed his material with singer and actor Hubert Wild and an eccentric former teacher, Ellen Reichardt, who has appeared in several of his films already.

A man, a dream, a chorizo ​​sandwich. Pablo, a sad and melancholic man, wakes up one day with the sole purpose of eating a chorizo ​​sandwich; but that will prove to be more complicated than he imagines. A whole odyssey of drama and everything it takes to get his sandwich.

Clara travels to Buenos Aires to meet an old friend, but when she arrives in the city, there are no traces of her: just a letter, two friends with a pirate radio and a mystery around the sidereal space.

Dr. Bryan Strange seeks to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories, which prevent some people from continuing to live normally. Following the experiment this reflection was born; about the ability to retain and remember the past as a fundamental part in the construction of our identity.

Join John Challis on his journey to the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, where he aims to uncover why ‘Only Fools and Horses’ is so popular in the small Balkan nation, apparently it’s the most watched show in Serbia, but why? Boycie is received in Serbia as almost a national hero, causing a media frenzy everywhere he goes on his voyage to learn about the people and the country. From a Royal Palace, to a brandy distillery, to a university teaching cockney rhyming slang; the documentary will keep you entertained as well as discover what it is that unites this tiny Balkan state with British humour.

A reflection on adolescence, and how nostalgia can influence a story.

Pascal is 16 years old and feels like an outsider. The music from his Bluetooth box is his only accompaniment. This changes when Pascal meets 18-year-old Tim.

Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

In order to claim welfare support for her son, Angela is forced to reveal the harrowing story of how the child was conceived. Inspired by real events and based on current government legislation, The Rape Clause is a short film about "one of the most inhumane and barbaric policies ever to emanate from Whitehall" (MSP Alison Thewliss, 2017) and how it weaponises shame and trauma.

Two otter pups have been carefully watched over by their mother for a year, but her tireless work will soon come to an end. From here on the pups will have to fend for themselves, one day maybe starting an otter family of their own.

On the day of his best friend's funeral, Robert struggles to come to terms with his grief and say goodbye to his friend and his youth.

For over a year, the Dannenrod Forest in Germany was occupied by climate activists who lived in treehouses up to 30 meters high to protect it from clearing for a new motorway. In October 2020, the extraction by the police and the cutting of the trees started. This documentary follows the activists through their actions, their dreams and their music and is with them when finally the last treehouses fell in the first week of December 2020.

Tricicle presents the last of their shows, the culmination of decades of work and inexhaustible humor: the best of the best of the best.

A couple builds a space to live. When it is finished, before inhabiting it, they invite a group of people to visit it. The invited people circulate individually through this new and empty space. They look, they walk, they talk. The film tries to rescue the effect of that experience in each one of them. So the space itself becomes an experience. What will they leave of themselves? What will they take? What will they show of the human? What is a house? What do you do with the past? The series of people who briefly inhabit that place, recently built, still free of all traces, could be thought of as infinite. The space fills and empties. The residual of that transit remains: a luminous fragility.

Rodrigo once had a girlfriend, a son and a house. But today a different man has taken his place. One day, at dawn, he appears at his old home with the intention of regaining, in a single day, everything he has lost; even if this might mean hurting the ones he loves. The stubbornness, the ego and the grief of a man.

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.