8,579 Matches Found
"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.
A film about Donatien Alphonse François de Sade by Raul Perrone
A multiple narrative as an invocation of queer poets from Alfonsina Storni to Néstor Perlongher, including Pasolini, Pizarnik, and Lorca, with the poetic and carnal presence of Susy Shock and Fernando Noy. The ghostly inclusion of Batato Barea serves as a guide for this fusion of poetic act and dramaturgy.
Having run out of weed, Norville visits his close friend and drug dealer Gary, only to find himself ravelled in an absurd conspiracy that only he can get to the bottom of.
Director Clara Beaudoux, who recently moved to Belgium, took advantage of lockdown to film what she could see from her window.
Empty rooms, a chambermaid, Velázquez and Goya.
Curtains up for a battle of material! More and more and more and more (repeat). A critique of capitalism packed into three minutes, in the form of an explosively colorful music video. An immense display of different techniques, countless characters, and screaming, shrill (neon) colors. Money dances—and we shake along. (wp)
A young man and his friends work to make him go viral, but as his fantasies come crashing down; reality hits him in the face and he begins to lose his mind.
A man looks for his missing dog in the middle of a strange night.
Trieste-Thessaloniki is a journey undertaken by a father and son through the Balkans in a camper van. The father is returning after 25 years to places he covered as a journalist during the war in ex-Yugoslavia. He is accompanied by his son, who is filming the experience. Along the way, marks left by those events endure to the present day in this frontier region between the East and the West, a region where now we find new refugees trying to reach Europe, fleeing from the same old conflicts.
The story of how 2 Tone, a record label from Coventry went on to have a global impact. The brainchild of Jerry Dammers saw dance music with a message dominate the charts from 1979.
Naturists tell us about this natural freedom to live naked, and the essential values that this practice brings. Live together, with respect. Discover the naturist way of life, far from the clichés and representations that today's society fantasizes about. Out of sight.
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahead of me the South is a poetic contemporary document, a kaleidoscopic picture of the Italy of today.
Ninth exploitation anthology from the twisted minds of established and up and coming directors from across the globe.
After their home reef is destroyed by a fish trawler, Jake and Shorty, two young fish friends, along with Indigo, Shorty’s sister, go on a quest to find a legendary coral reef, one that has never been found by humans. The trio sets out on an adventurous journey, where they will learn about courage, friendship and the ocean’s last underwater haven.
A Christmas Dream tells the story of a local teenage girl who has had ambitions to go to a musical theatre school in London since she was eight years old. She is now 18 but her parents, who are both solicitors, want her and her twin brother to go to university and study law. The film shows the support she gets from her friends, boyfriend and her singing and dance teacher. They encourage her to follow her dream and go for it and have no regrets in later life.
After the separation, Julia and Robert try "nesting". But what initially seems good for the children only makes things more complicated for the whole family. Twelve-year-old Marie and seven-year-old Maxi continue to live in the house, while the parents take turns every week. But Robert's only aim with his proposal is to save the house and buy time for Julia to finally come to her senses. Julia, however, doesn't think much of waiting around.
A boy is running through a forest, but what is he running from?
The term hysteresis soberly describes a processual behaviour where the previous history affects the result as much as new changes. Robert Seidel enters analogue drawings, performance footage of the queer dancer Tsuki and pluck sounds and drones by Oval into a feedback system that reorganises time and movement in a multicoloured and sensual organic tableau.
The film takes its name from the place where it was filmed, the triforium of London’s Westminster Abbey, a gallery hidden from view for 700 years, that runs sixteen metres high above the floor of the nave. Accompanied by Laurence’s Crane’s music, the film holds the stillness and quietude of the triforium, the accumulation of centuries of ascending prayer.
Almost every day, a stream of young girls queue up at the check-in at Addis Ababa International Airport and in Dhaka, the destination for Beirut. Dressed elegantly, wearing makeup, laughing and joking among themselves, they yearn for a new life abroad, with the promise of a high salary and a good job. Yet for most, this dream turns into a nightmare.
A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?
The Filomena snowstorm in central Spain was undoubtedly exceptional. Its return period in many places exceeded half a century, particularly in Madrid. Despite accurate weather forecasts, Filomena brought roads, public transport, health centers, and other basic services in Madrid to a standstill. What went wrong in the management of this weather event?
From the emptiness of the space left by our embraces, only the frantic circle of memories only remains. A dance, Bodies stretch, tear and entwine ... Persecutions, War perhaps, as the breath of absence prevails and the weight of loneliness sounds. A man wakes up naked in the ruins of past conflict. Then the memory of bodies embracing, tearing each other up, and remembering.
An Italian documentary about the Monster of Florence.
Are paranormal experiences real? Can being 'spiritual' help with the way you feel about death, dying and grief? This British film, from the university that pioneered distance learning through BBC Television, explores themes of spiritual healing and the differing views on life after death.
A young girl finds an old doll in the remnants of a bonfire. She has no idea how it got there, or where it came from. But when she discovers that she can see through the doll's eye, she will uncover the terrifying truth.
When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her fathers truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country.
In 1960, American dancer and actor Gene Kelly created for the Paris Opera Ballet an original choreography that was highly acclaimed at the time, yet rarely performed thereafter; a genius work that the Scottish Ballet, accompanied by the stirring and evocative score by composer and pianist George Gershwin, epitome of orchestral jazz, brings back to life sixty years later.
Jack decides to clone himself during lockdown. Does he regret doing it?
José Escudier is in charge of directing the 5-episode television series, with each episode being 50 minutes long. He has experience in this type of format and directed “Camarón, de la Isla al mito.” Journalist Carlos Herrera is the main narrator of the series alongside Curro Romero himself. However, in some sequences, we will also use the voices of some of the key figures who knew the bullfighter.
When Galindo, an acid unsuccessful film director, sees the triumph of "La gallina Turuleca" at the 2021 Goya ceremony, he discovers that there is a way to win a Goya automatically: to be the only animated film that comes in. Then Galindo decides to make an animated film to get a much desired Goya. For this he goes in search of his old companions of film adventures: Pablo and Dharma.
Slovenian conductor Martina Batič and the Radio France Choir offers an eclectic programme combining Wagner, Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc. The choir is accompanied by eight cellists from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio de France.
Anselmo is an eccentric man who hires artists to paint him every 12 years. This time the artist is Pablo. During their last session, Pablo began to suspect that Anselmo’s previous portraits held a horrible secret. Who really is Anselmo? That is the question Pablo must confront.
On the beach where ancient poetry was saved with all its creatures, a romantic artist tries to convince the bourgeois public of the timelessness of the past.
A poetic and nightmarish dive into the deranged mind of a psychotic little girl. Nina is 9 years old but isn’t like other little girls. Nina has two secrets, she has freed Tony the Monster who lives in the magical cave and she has just killed her parents.
A forgotten box full of memories and found again in the Jeu de Balle square in Brussels takes on a new meaning thanks to the imagination of a filmmaker.
A young woman Perdita is searching for a place she could call home when a small red ball crosses her path.
X is a cinematic ritual aimed at appeasing the ancestral spirits of the industrial workforce. The film is inspired by the lives of the filmmaker’s father and grandfather, who also play the lead roles.
Twenties. A painter now in decline and shaded by an illness leaving no freedom or way out will get his chance.
Business is not going particularly well at Taubenbaum Funerals. The body of a young woman brings in work, but no one knows who it is. Lisa tries to find out the identity of the unknown woman.
A documentary about the ghosts of Joan Perucho, which wants to be an immersive experience in the author's universe, in his literature, in his landscapes, his fears and obsessions, his experiences, war, cinema, vampires, the fantasy genre and pop culture.
Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the turmoil of men, and due to her high writing art she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.
