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Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is dipped in darkness. Matteo is a young electronic music producer big fan of Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. He’s composing the songs of his new album. In a single moment, he loses all his work on his computer. Crushed by the lack of electricity and ensnared on his habits, Matteo finds an entirely different dimension of himself and everything around him thanks to the encounter with Greta, his neighbor from next door, who’s writing a novel inspired by this emergency.

Why do humans torture other humans? This is the question Frankfurt’s director Dieter Reifarth addresses in Die Tortur. Following along the lines of Jean Améry’s essay of the same name, he draws a picture of the author’s experiences of being a Nazi prisoner in the Belgian fort Breendonk. Archived footage and images from the present-day museum are shown to accompany the original audio recordings.

Since 2012, same sex couples can legally get married in France. Five years later, director Fx Goby wanted to meet the women and men that decided to embrace an institution that had rejected them for so long. Meet bakers Raoul and Roger, executive businesswomen Veronique and Vanda, proud mums Gloria and Clarence and young active couple Vincent and Mickaël, for whom access to marriage simply changed their lives. This moving portrait of regular people highlights the one thing that is often forgotten when debating over same sex marriage, love.

The prison at 5351 Canada Street in San Joaquin has been the main witness of the horrors and tortures committed inside since 1973 until today.

The story behind the gestation and filming of 'El Cosmonauta', one of the most ambitious crowdfunding and transmedia projects in Spanish cinema.

The film documents stories of several gay men as they prepare for their asylum interviews before the French authorities.

Recorded LIVE at The Auditorium at The Echo Arena Liverpool. Following the amazing success of 2017, Paul Smith brings his 2018 Special to The Auditorium at The Echo Arena, Liverpool. Join the quick witted, affable Scouse comic for more hilarious tales from his life. Guaranteed to entertain, you won’t want to miss out on one of the best comedy shows of the year.

For the Love of Corals is a cinematic inquiry that focuses on the daily labour of caring for endangered beings to resuscitate them from their imminent human-induced extinction. The technology of the ad hoc laboratory; scientific knowledge; the complexity of marine ecologies; and the intimacy of providing care converge in the precision of sustaining coral IVF. Whilst keeping the coral in captivity is, dishearteningly, the fundamental condition of Craggs’ research, the scientists and the coral also become entangled in sharing a space for living, working and world-making, expanding the range of possible worlds in common.

A couple spends most of their time talking about their past and their dreams. During this time, they are constantly monitored and analyzed by voices, bodies, and external devices.

There exist three different types of faces. The first face you show to the world. The second face you see, when you look into the mirror. The third face is the face even you don't want to know, because it can kill you. The girl in this film runs through all three faces, telling her story with a mafia boss.

Bicep live at Printworks on November 23, 2018.

A young girl packs her things. Without a word, she leaves her parents' holiday home. On a country road a car approaches: a young man. He takes her with him. They drive along the Nordic coast. Surrounded by the slight noise of wind and rain, and the sound of tires on concrete. In sight the open soil, faint dunes, waves breaking at the shore. Black. From the backseat the girl sees the young man: He gets into his car, he drives off.

Rafael (Tio Lape) and Joel live in Santiago, Tuxtla, a town in the state of Veracruz, México that has been affected by the war on drugs. They have found a way to remain alive, through their music: Son Jarocho. Building community, thus combating the fear, violence and sadness that entails continuing this way of life.

A young woman wanders around Paris, pulling a suitcase, from bar to bar, never finding the one she loves. Along the way, brief encounters with others elicit sympathy and solidarity amidst a changing neighbourhood. Montreuil and its inhabitants are the true protagonists in this film where love is perhaps an excuse to portray and celebrate everyday life in the city.

The femina accabadora was a woman who practiced an ancient form of euthanasia, a compassionate act towards the dying person, in order to alleviate her pains. Considered by many to be a legendary figure of the Sardinian tradition, in reality he acted until the 1960s, as our protagonists, eyewitnesses of the deeds of the ladies of the good death, tell. Together with them we cross the sunny landscapes of Sardinia and immerse ourselves in the shaded areas of a millenary culture still alive in the present.

Following the traces of Jürgenssen’s path through the final years of World War II (from Hungary to Italy, and later denazification in Upper Austria, where he got married), Olger visits sites and speaks to witnesses from the period when Olaf Jürgenssen was part of the German war crimes, even if his photos seem to suggest that he was there in all innocence. In a video interview before his death his grandfather remains vague and deflects questions. Nils Olger’s pointed conclusion from his somber and calm film about history, memory and denialism: “What will I remember of my grandfather? Negatives.” (Bert Rebhandl)

Three teenagers spend a day in an a apartment that doesn't belong to them. They pretend to live the life of the owners, until fear and jealousy break in. Things don't go so well and a foreign guest tests their strength.

Live At The Dome Show date: 14th March 2018 Chuck Mambo vs 'The Business' Sid Scala 'Hellhound' Gavin Lewis & Screwface vs Mills & Mayhew Roy Johnson vs Rampage Brown - Atlas No.1 Contender's Match Rob Lynch vs Primate Craft Beating Company & Chakara vs Never Say Die & Candyfloss Spike Trivet vs Drew Parker - No Disqualification

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy?

A visual exploration of Nicholas' fear of death.

Tristan Corbière's depiction of a dead fisherman's family life, told through pictures of the Mediterranean.

At some point it will be over. But no one wants to imagine the day when it really is over, the day when they warm their muscles in the dressing room for the last time, stand in the wings, wait together, hear the music start and finally spring onto the stage: for the very last time.

They live on the edge of the known world - far from civilization but affected by its consequences nonetheless. The photographer Markus Mauthe visited these last indigenous peoples to capture the inherent beauty of their cultures, before they too fall victim to ever-advancing globalisation. The journey leads from South Sudan and Ethiopia to Malay sea nomads and Brazilian Indians in Mato Grosso, who have started to defend themselves against the destruction of their natural habitat. The result is a film that captures intimate and unadulterated encounters with sumptuous photography – while also serving as an appeal for the preservation of indigenous cultures, which will surely perish unless we rethink and act accordingly.

A documentary looking at how tenants and residents in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark are organising in the face of the enormous change happening in London.

A look at the Nigerian mafia in the costal town of Castel Volturno in Italy.

Eli is a photography student suffering from achromatopsia, so she can only see in black and white. At a party, she will meet an old love that will change her life. Eli will have to decide whether to live this new life or accept herself as she is.

From memories of Chile and France,fragments of images gather together with a family secret, a scattered and painfully melancholic story is constructed.

Twelve-year-old Osman has a problem with enuresis. He spends his vacations with his mother in Meknes, at her aunt's house. He must absolutely avoid wetting the bed at their hosts' house.

With unique access to the inner world of the Getty family, this documentary unearths the lasting cultural impact of J Paul Getty and the Getty Centre in Los Angeles - the wealthiest art institution in the world.

Abril tries to find meaning in her own life. In the process, her perception changes; her skin transforms to the point of becoming a new one.

Live at Lollapalooza, Berlin (Germany). Noonday Dream Tour 2018.

The digital frame is both accessible and distorted as a girl confides to her mother 5000 miles away – a virtual portrait of distance and generations.

Seventy-year-old Horacio is a great conversationalist with a prodigious memory. He lives poorly selling pigs with the only company of thirty dogs, two cats and a sheep in the heart of the Argentinian humid pampa. This year, his only neighbour and friend Hugo has made up his mind to move to the city as soon as the autumn arrives, after spending his whole life in the countryside. Horacio is deeply affected, and more sensitive than ever about his own solitude. That summer, memories from the past will come after him while he tries to persuade Hugo to stay.

Documentary short about the contrasting experiences, past and present, of three trans men of different generations.

A portrait of the legendary Fay Presto; the UK’s most in-demand close-up and cabaret magician who would rather die on stage than quit performing.

The story of TED Prize-winner Sugata Mitra’s attempt to pioneer a new form of education, seen through the eyes of children in an Indian village and in a northern British town, whose lives are being transformed by his ideas. The film poses the question "What kind of education do children need in the networked world?"

A documentary on BNP Paribas

The place where the souls of the righteous enjoy eternal bliss. A snapshot on the edge of a stream, like a pause out of time. The trembling film of the water wrinkles and distorts the images reflected in it. A sound of breathing, some insects and birds signal their presence. “It is a green hole where a river sings...”