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"Pandamonium" is an ethnographic essay film which explores conceptions of 'the exotic other' through the trope of the giant panda and, in so doing, it interrogates the seemingly distant colonial legacy of today’s Britain with regards to 'the oriental Chinese'.

Ivan and Kyle meet up at their local cafe for their usual fry up, only to discover everything has changed and there's nothing they can do about it.

Farinata is tried in Florence and convicted of heresy 19 years after his death; his remains are missing, his sons barbarously killed. Solomon of Lucca is the inquisitor. A story too murky and dark not to bring it back to light.

After a loved one's funeral, all Ryan wants to do is play pool, but his money-motivated friend has a few lifts to do first.

From the beyond, the director's grandfather tells his grandson about how, in 1939, he forged his documents to leave Chile and enlist in World War II in France. This experience echoes the Chilean "social explosion" of 2019, the scene of unprecedented violence and hundreds of human rights violations by the forces of law and order.

SOLO + MUTE was initially intended to be a portrait of the 19-year-old model and frontwoman of Glasgow based band “Medicine Cabinet”. However, mid-way through production, the country went into lockdown, and the film became a portrayal of one artist's response to a global disaster affecting us all.

“On June 12th 1942, the Night Witches received their first baptism by fire. They were injected with the blood of the vampire bat, to see in the dark. They flew in wooden planes. No radar or radios. They had to be magic, they must have been drugged, or witches, or magic, to see in the dark. They were aged 17 to 26, the Night Witches. They dropped 23,000 tonnes of bombs on the fascists. ‘Be proud, you are a woman.’” Weaving a gothic-fantasy of the all-female Soviet WW2 bomber pilots the ‘Night Witches’, Membering the Night Witches presents an auto-baptism and auto-fertilisation calling for urgent antifascist liberation from our toxic selves. The intense improvised live performance is a noisy hymn for impossible queer longing, evoking psychic-political spirits from the undercurrents of transness, ecstasy and Christian mysticism.

We are bound to the choices we make. What goes around comes around. A take on the legacy of ocean pollution.

The Araucaria araucana is a prehistoric tree species, present on earth for millions of years. "Vestiges" tells its story from its origin in a visual and chronological way, showing its resistance to the different external forces it has to face, the different ways it has been related to humans, until the disease that threatens them, as a consequence of the climate change.

In the alleys of the ancient village of Gallipoli, pandemic anxieties and fears take over and control our mind. A harrowing race against time towards collective and individual rebirth. "Covid" spasmodically sanctions the importance of social distancing which re-elaborates the concept of freedom so that everyone can return to "breathing" life as soon as possible.

27th March 2020: a man seeks a remedy for the gloomy and unnerving loneliness of the lockdown.

A meeting of several myths: shadows in movement, which the filmmaker associates with cave paintings; the voice of the "sacred monster" Sarah Bernhardt, the world's first star, as she delivers the monologue of Phèdre a hundred years ago; an attempt to exit the labyrinth.

“There is no country but childhood's” said Roland Barthes in a lovely text simply entitled "The Light of the South Wes"t. This region that he had chosen from them all, Urt on the banks of the Adour, the village sheltering his mother’s house. He would often come here to rediscover his pleasure in writing: “The pleasure of these mornings in U.: the sun, the house, the roses, the silence, the music, the coffee, the work, the a-sexual calm, a break from aggressions.” It is here that he now rests in the same grave, close to the maternal breast.

A short film about a girl reminiscing her past whilst composing a message to her ex

A new place in the world is revealed while Bea is confronted with loss and what she imagines will come. In the house that prepares itself to embrace change, fears dwell. An unforeseen loneliness also seems to be part of her desire, that of being a mother without a partner and a lesbian. The director films her attached to a time when the two shared the same idea of community. As Bea’s body changes, the camera moves between affection and distance. An attempt to get to know each other (again), and perhaps also a need to wonder about family, love, friendship and all those desires that overflow the limits of intimacy.

Locked in a building under construction, Pedro, an old cyclist who has become a night watchman, remembers his youth.

Germany is falling. Once the all-powerful country, now being crushed in the Second World War. Adolf Hitler is in hiding. The feared dictator no longer publicly supports his people. The man that fulled this chaos, leaving the country to crumble. These are Adolf Hitler's final days. Inside the Fuhrerbunker.

On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany was defeated. Over-publicized, the Nuremberg trials sounded a few months later as the promise to purge Germany of a devastating ideology. But this task will quickly become wishful thinking. Despite their initial intentions, the Allies already know that it will be impossible to deal with the millions of Germans who have gravity around the Nazi Party. The onset of the Cold War soon pushed denazification into the background. Anxious not to deprive Germany of its vital forces for its reconstruction, the Americans and their allies reduce the purification to a simple questionnaire. In the Soviet zone, the hunt for former Nazis is above all a means of repression against opponents of the new regime. In the 1960s, German youth rediscovered Nazi crimes and demanded accountability from their parents.

Discovering a wealth of Beethoven's forgotten Gaelic songs, Michael and Allan MacDonald stage a concert featuring both Beethoven's and the ancient Gaelic versions.

When a young married professional quits his job to pursue a career in photography, he gradually reveals the emptiness of his relationship with his wife as he begins to deeply connect with a German student.

Drama centring on a grieving pharmacist and a trifle-loving methadone patient.

Andy (Andreas Stiller Hudson), deserted as a child by his father (Werner Stiller), uncovers a forgotten 40-year-old goodbye letter from his dad.

An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet – plastic.

The tobacco plant was introduced to Granada (Southern Spain) in 1923. It became a monoculture in the region until the end of the century. When the tobacco production stopped being profitable, the farmers switched to new crops like wheat, corn or asparagus. However, the lands of Granada are still replete with tobacco barns: large empty houses where the leaves used to be hanged to dry. They inhabit the landscape like architectural ghosts.

An ethnographic portrait of one stigmatised woman coal miner, in the village of Kante, in Tajikistan.

Cosimo, an impetuous and idealistic scion of an aristocratic family, has decided to leave his home and live alone in the woods, rejecting society and his parents, whom he deeply loathes. On Christmas Eve, his twin brother Biagio goes looking for him in the depths of the forest to convince him to return home, even if only for one night.

Ibn Kenyatta has been in prison since 1974. In 2019, he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York State Board of Parole. The words resonate from his cell with images of the Great Migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The images' epistolary narrative takes us from Alabama, his birthplace, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten. Before arriving to Haiti's spiritual world, his words pass through cotton fields and factories. We encounter Bobby Seale in prison, a youth who embodies his African heritage during the Vietnam War, while his fathers are murdered in the United States.

MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER tells the true story of Clive who contracted Meningitis and lost both his sight and his hearing during the outbreak of the Second World War. Clive is now 15 years old and attending Goring School, having been evacuated from Margate School for the Deaf. Clive’s father, away serving in the Navy, receives a heartfelt letter from his wife, Dorothy. As Christopher reads the letter English, BSL and Visual Vernacular interweave to tell the shocking story of a war plane crashing to the ground meters away from Clive’s classroom.

Two college students, Gabriel and Adrien, are inseparable. On the surface, they are great friends but, in secret, Gabriel has feelings for him. As the two young teenagers face homophobic comrades on the way home, they find themselves helpless and without the possibility of defending themselves. Will this incident lead to the irreparable?

This study on Quino's style, carried out by Mariano Llinás and Ignacio Masllorens in 2005 as part of their documentary “El Humor (Small Illustrated Encyclopedia)” is a delicate and lucid look at the work of someone who was much more than the inventor of the endearing Mafalda.

"Beijing Bicycles" is the poetic memory left on the artist by the thousands of bicycles that circulate in Beijing. The endless round of images is transformed, slowly passing from an indefinite form to that - constructed - of cyclists, without ever dwelling on the original shot

Fatima, in the beginning of her twenties. She cooks, takes care of her child and does her everyday house cleaning. Gradually, her life begins to change, she worked as a cleaner, her husband abused her, she asked for help, and then escaped away to live in a social house. After escaping with the hope of having a better life, she is suddenly faced by another problem related to the status of her child. The director was shooting with an iPhone since meeting Fatima to make a semi-fiction movie. But instead, Anhar kept the footage and continued shooting with her personal phone for documenting Fatima's new dramatic changes more closely, in the sake of keeping the same relationship and distance. At the same time, the film tries to emphasize Fatima’s emotional/occasional status throughout the film by using more vivid images connected to her situation, places, and old memories as an ex-dancer back in Algeria.

Thanks to conservation efforts in East Africa in recent years, the mountain gorilla population has increased. But overcrowding due to habitat fragmentation is leading to stress and violence.

The IMS Phoenix astronauts return from Mars after two years of exploration. As their mental and physical capacities deteriorate, they discover that they don't have enough food left to make it back to Earth alive.

Starving man takes action to get his paycheck back

In 1898, barely 18 years old, the German Hans Schomburgk, a native of Hamburg, set foot on the black continent for the first time. In 1912, he was admitted to the Royal Geographical Society in London and convinced a production company to finance his first film expedition to Africa. Two years later, the apprentice director achieved immense success with the documentary "Hiking and trails in Africa". Tested by the two world conflicts - the Allies confiscated his reels during the Great War, just like the Nazis, in 1940 - Hans Schomburgk managed to bounce back by setting out again to film the endangered wildlife of Kruger Park or the ancient traditions of the San, until to his farewell to Africa in 1956.

The strees of modern life has no limits. What if the solution knocked on your door?

On a Monday morning, Próspero arrives in his apartment after a full weekend of partying. In the apartment building across the way Carlos is watching – both men have seen each other multiple times, but they don’t know each other. Carlos is a Colombian musician who has just moved to New York. He’s fascinated with Próspero and his life. When Carlos comes home high after attending his own parties he enjoys composing songs while imagining his neighbor’s life. However, the morning the film opens on is different – Carlos watches from his couch intently interested in the presence of Agatha, a mysterious woman.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright responds to the coronavirus crisis with an intimate live concert. Without an audience and specially arranged for a small string section, Wainwright performs his new album "Unfollow the Rules" for the TV cameras only. Recorded in the ballroom of the Paramour Mansion, a historic residence in Los Angeles, the musician shows that good songs work even under difficult circumstances.

Entertainer Nathan Kennedy, who speaks Gayle, the South African cant that flourished during the Apartheid era, meets Louis van Brakel, a much older user of the secret language, and interviews him on stage at the Showroom, Prince Albert.

Lutz Kayser, a Swabian engineer, has dreamed of the stars since childhood. In 1969, he and other members of a student working group won a research contract from the German government to develop alternative forms of propulsion for the European rocket program. At the beginning of the 1970s, when the German government no longer wanted to fund this research, Kayser founded OTRAG (Orbital Transport und Raketen Aktiengesellschaft) - the world's first private space company.

A cinematographic meeting of four writers who are also actors, directors, teachers and playwrights. This multiplicity of trades is related to the word and the common point of two episodes four that compõem or film. Four stories, four protagonists: two men, two women who reflect, in different ways, on writing, reading, the generational clash and the creative process.

A mini documentary about the life of rapper Tedua.

Live recording of Amplifier's show in Manchester Academy3 on 24th March 2018. Featuring a setlist comprised of the top fan voted songs polled over the end of 2017. At 2 hours in length, it showcases the diversity of the weighty Amplifier back catalogue.