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For Il Gabbiano, the first stage of the Chekhov Project, director Leonardo Lidi creates a simple stage setting in which he weaves together a sound box for the emotions that drive the characters, isolated on the shores of a large lake on a summer estate.
Faustine will not have children.
Toy and Novah are about to break up and move apart, all brought on by Toy’s crush on human estate agent Adele, but is she cis?
The Iron Maidens sing and play the songs of the Iron Maiden. If you're confused for a moment, you should definitely stay tuned, because: The five heavy metal ladies around Kirsten Rosenberg perform the songs from over 40 years of "Iron Maiden" in their own way and more than successfully on numerous stages all over the planet. From Asia to Europe and South America, people know and love the "Iron Maidens". And so do we! Founded in 2001 in Los Angeles in the United States, the rocking tubes are now coming to the tranquil north of Germany to tear down Wacken 2022.
16mm in-camera-edited symphony portrait of the anachronistic city of Burbank through its most iconic neon signs
If the beach is synonymous with holidays and relaxation, it is also of capital importance for the animals and plants that flourish there. Between wet towels, umbrellas and sandcastles, the real inhabitants of this golden expanse have developed amazing strategies to adapt to the tourist crowds.
The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no longer have a place. Social equality was for him the only guarantee of a true emancipation. During the last four years of his life, he mobilized all his energy to realize this "other dream". But there were many obstacles: he was scorned by white, racist America, abandoned by the political class, but also by some of his own people, who decided to turn their backs on the principle of non-violence.
Born in Edinburgh in 1990, Shooglenifty created their unique sound by fusing traditional melodies with the beats and basslines of world music influences. This musical journey follows the original members of the band and their rise in international popularity. Following the untimely passing of their fiddle player and front man, Angus R. Grant, the band persevere with the same passion and creativity. An uplifting gem for fans old and new.
Every year since 1970, the German town of Burghausen has hosted one of the world's biggest jazz festivals. During Burghausen International Jazz Week, the town becomes a "Bavarian jazz mecca": visitors from all over the world join residents to enjoy wonderful jazz performances in the colorful frenzy that grips the town packed with spectators and musicians. One of the artists featured in 2019 was The Earth, Wind & Fire Experience. In this concert, guitarist, composer and musical director Al McKay performs his timeless disco and soul hits. Joined by 7 of the 13 original members of Earth, Wind & Fire, he revives "Boogie Wonderland" and "September" from his world tour.
A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021).
David and his estranged daughter Lea are forced to make a long and eventful car journey home together after she leaves university under tragic circumstances.
Inspired by Richard Jefferies’ late 19th-century ‘After London’ - one of the earliest post-apocalyptic novels - the film serves as test footage for how a future London might look. How a city that no longer exists might appear, having disappeared. Instead, in its place a vast toxic swamp, spewing ocherous smoke and chemical waste, with electric blue sulphurous flames emerging from the dead land. Shot on location in and amongst the craters and sulphur mines of the Ijen volcano complex in Indonesia, the imagery is accompanied by a recording of Herbert Read reciting his poem ‘The Autumn of the World’.
"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.
Big Night Of Musicals staged by The National Lottery at the AO Arena Manchester features a blockbuster bill including the casts of the nation’s most popular musicals.
At night and in the darkness of day, an explorer with binoculars and a notebook makes his way through the jungle of Borneo in search of orangutans.
Within a few years, France has witnessed the emergence of a new perspective on society, identity, and race, leading to the creation of an unprecedented lexicon that contradicts the principles of French-style universalism. These days, terms such as "white privilege", "intersectionality", "cancel culture", and the adjective "racialised" are defining a new relationship between minorities, differences, and society, especially among the younger generation. What is the origin of this vocabulary? What does 'wokism' mean? What is the origin of its adoption in France? Is it an opportunity? Or a threat? Is this an unfortunate implementation of a model not our own? This documentary delves into the origins and consequences of a phenomenon that is no longer trivial through archive footage and insights from prestigious contributors, analysts, and witnesses.
The Moroccan desert is famous for its recurring meteorite falls. Fragments from Heaven tells the story of Mohamed, a nomad who lives with his family in a tent in a remote area of the desert. In order to change his family’s hard living conditions, he decides to go in search of meteorites. It is the story of Abderrahmane as well, a scientist who relies on this meteor debris to pursue his research on the origins of the Earth and life. Both of them, don’t imagine that this quest will take them far beyond simple hunting. Behind those objects, lie the fragments of human complexity.
On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With "Cell 5" Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: How could Oury Jalloh burn to death?
Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. As the two men unpack their memories, audiences embody the experience of a 7-year-old child at key points in the migration. Child of Empire offers a powerful counter-narrative that lends a fresh perspective on the effects of forced migration on everyday individuals.
Abbie Campbell is in prison for murder, she stabbed her sleeping husband. The background to the brutal act was never clarified, Abbie had refused any statement at the time. Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake has to prepare an expert opinion on the young woman.
Phillip and Holly present a special edition of the show from Buckingham Palace and welcome singing superstar Barry Manilow and Eurovision 2022 sensation Sam Ryder for interviews.
A character confesses some weird dreams in which he turns into some new kind of Venus made of dicks.
L’Angeleta has turned 100 years old. She lives in an old masia of shepherds where she once arrived to work as a maid. As she contemplates the forests from her window, the outside and the inner worlds, the border between what is real and what is dreamt dilute.
Thunder live at Hellfest festival, Clisson, France on 23rd June 2022.
A docked piglet’s journey through the hierarchies of a fetish world explores inter-species and gender relationships in Marianna Simnett’s wonderfully dark and visceral fairytale.
A girl is kidnapped in an amusement park on a full moon night.
An anthology of short films led by girls who find their own way in life: A chance meeting at a swimming pool sparks a change in the life and perspective of a young refugee forever, the morning after the night before has two unfamiliar girls questioning how they awoke in the same bed and a beautiful, carefree adventurer disrupts a homebody's monotonous lifestyle.
Nino heads to the earthquake region of Abruzzo to surprise his mother, Azzurra, on her birthday. Once there, he meets Malatesta, a boy his age who works at the hotel. When the earth begins to shake, the relationships between the three start unraveling.
The story follows Anthony, a mixed European gay man, who auditions for the reality TV Show "Dream Island". The casting director's questions begin to trigger him as he relives a traumatic event. This is a story based on true events and raises awareness about sexual consent, especially in the lgbtqi+ community.
Hometopia is a short animation reflecting upon the ubiquitous but wildly despised British council housing. The animation takes on the tone of a child's fairy tale, depicting the bizarre experience of entering a dazzling estate and later getting lost in an illusionary utopian world.
Volker can hardly imagine anything better than being the father of a daughter. However, he knows far too little about the real life of 17-year-old Daphne after separating from his wife. He wants to change that with his first daddy-daughter vacation, billed as a trip to Crete's dream beaches. However, the educational program the lecturer has come up with doesn't really suit the teenager's interests.
Facing writer’s block, a resourceful young girl summons the powers of a chicken-pencil. Together, they embark upon a colored trip. Destination? Imagination.
Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont host a Christmas getaway for their comedy pals Romesh Ranganathan, Judi Love and Tom Allen to eat, drink, and get very, very merry.
Almost every 5th child in Germany is at risk of poverty. This film tells the story of three children, of different origins, family and living conditions, and their everyday struggles. To cope with reality, they make up the wildest stories: They are superheroes and have various superpowers no one can see.
Rebeca lives isolated with her parents on a chicken farm. She loves animals but she can't handle the situation at home anymore: Her emotionally and psychologically unstable mother suffers outbreaks in which she is unable to control her aggressiveness. The day that she decides to run away, Rebeca will realize that she no longer needs her father to leave and that, in reality, he never had any intention of letting her go.
In the footsteps of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), a German composer rooted in his era, who sought to console his contemporaries from misery and death with comforting works heralding the Baroque period.
While photocopying his latest course for the girl he's secretly in love with, Johannes makes a fantastic and unexpected discovery.
A fight for queer identity and a sexual awakening guided by spirits in the mountains of Snowdonia.