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Rough cinematic notes from the Cévennes filmed on Super 8 Wittnerchrome.

In an Italy frozen in time, a private writes to his wife with the hope of returning home. A universal tale with a taste of neorealism. Lest we forget.

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and Depression. It aims to represent these ideas in an abstract but honest way - using CGI as a medium to create an impactful experience that will make the audience think about mental illness in a way they might not have before.

Three actors break into a theatre to 'celebrate' the rite of Sofocle's Antigone.

The incredible story of Sally Noach, a Dutch Jewish carpet salesman who rescued hundreds of Jews from Vichy France by forging identification papers and arranging their escape. Equally intriguing is the controversy still surrounding Noach’s exploits: lingering rumours about espionage and black-market profiteering. Finally, with assistance from the filmmaker, researchers and living witnesses whose families he saved, Noach’s children attempt to solve the puzzle.

A man in a blue suit passes the time away watching the dock workers.

After a failed experiment, a scientist finds himself sharing his body with a hundred people and seeks to regain his individuality.

Nacho is a boy from El Bosque who dreams of studying Astronomy. However, social and family difficulties makes it hard for him.

In 1974 Thomas Nagel published his famous essay "What is it like to be a bat?" arguing that there is a specific mental state to each organism. Besides his critique toward the materialist theory of mind, the paper also explores the differences between human consciousness and the awareness of bats. According to Nagel subjectivity can not be shared. However, cinema might be a tool to do exactly that; sharing a lived experience of another creature. This film attempts to kindle the vision of a spider by using experimental phytochemistry.

The average person blinks 15-20 times per minute and upwards of 28,800 times a day. Shot on location throughout France in 2017 BLINK is a brief reflection on all the life that transpires while our eyes are closed.

A tale of resistance from Northern Italy.

Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.

After receiving an unexpected present on the night of his birthday, Alejandro Ruíz decides to take a trip to the heart of the mountain. There, a sleeping disorder erases the limits of his reality.

Chloe has to leave. Arnaud is determined to make her last night one she'll never forget.

A documentary film about being transgender in St Petersburg in Russia, presented by Owl and Fox Fisher. This is the first specifically trans related documentary film on day to day trans life and the specific issues that trans women, trans men and non-binary people are facing in Russia. With special thanks to Jonny and all our contributors.

In a universe where history has been ravaged by time-travelling criminals, federal agent Zellion Hadrax IV travels to 1970s England, tasked with hunting them down.

In September of 2017 German writer and director Daniel Raboldt accompanied a group of German and Polish scientists and students into the woods of Masuria, Poland. The expedition aimed to find traces of the so-called "lost villages", left by the Masurians around 1945 by the end of the Second World War. Today only some of the old graveyards can be found deep in the woods of the beautiful Masurian landscape. The documentary "In the back of history - The lost villages of Masuria" shows the students at their work in the historic archives and in the woods. How conclusive can this kind of historic research be? How much can we really learn by looking through old files or other sources? And what can we learn from the vanishing of the Masurians? Do we face similar problems today? The film dives deep into themes like the rise of nationalism and identity and uncovers the tragic end of a population that was asked one simple question in the early 20th century: Stay or Leave?

Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairy tales. But where do they actually come from? How much of it is truth, how much is myth? Going to great lengths in this documentary, the filmmakers join scientists to explore a number of the best-known sagas and legends in the world. The search for the origins of what is likely to be the oldest legendary creature, the dragon, leads to snake pits, archaeological dig sites, gold mines and the inside of an Icelandic volcano. They also travel to Texas, hunting for traces of the “chupacabra,” literally the “goat-sucker,” a modern mythical creature with vampire-like teeth that was first spotted in Central America, and accompany palaeontologists to Kazakhstan in search of the remains of what might be the origin of the alluring unicorn, whose horn the Vikings used for trading.

A personal portrait of crofting life on the Isle of South Uist, Scotland, told through layers of memory and action. The bardic hills are steeped in stories of survival and this film captures a sense of this. The story explores how the greatest challenge today is not from the longest test rocket missile firing range in Europe next door but from the growing number of Greylag geese who feast on the crofters’ corn.

What is a man? Everyone has an answer. For many, manliness is a costume to be worn. In this film, ordinary men ask themselves what led them to adopt the various postures of the manly man. Some of them, because they had to overcome an ordeal that questioned the meaning of masculinity, tell how they distanced themselves from the figure of the "real man". With these intimate, amused and sometimes painful testimonies, director Cécile Denjean weaves a sensitive and powerful film. A film of those who move.

Looking for a deeper meaning to his life, Ralf makes connections to Germany's underground techno scene and has the summer of his life.

Hatter lures 2 girls to his 'Wonderland' for his infamous Tea Party. Little do they know that the party will soon take a dark turn.

A story about love and breaking social barriers, set against the Rio Verde plane crash that killed the players of the Santiago baseball team in 1948.

Two-channel HD video with sound and color

Her love couldn't save the eternal city.

Against a backdrop of tension and violence throughout Venezuela, Ángel, a businessman of questionable repute, is held captive in his apartment. In this highly charged atmosphere, he is forced by his captors to face the dilemma: To continue as a social predator, or to take responsibility for his actions?

After leaving prison, Danny has to prove to his ex-girlfriend that he's turned over a new leaf in order to let her see his daughter again.

This documentary is a brief insight into the life of The Catholic Worker Farm, London. The Farm aims to provide accommodation, food, English lessons, counselling and other services for 19 destitute (without access to public funds) female asylum seekers (who we call our ‘sisters’) and their children, at no charge. The documentary consists of interviews with volunteers and the women themselves and explains both the way of life at The Farm and the aims and inspirations of the global Catholic Worker Movement.

They are single or gay, or they have let the biological clock of fertility slip by, but they have made the choice to become parents. To obtain the desired child, they take side roads. Today, they recount their difficult journey, with or without the help of medicine, their way of starting a family, of conceiving of filiation, but also their feeling of illegality and the weight of the gaze of others. At a time when the laws governing medically assisted procreation are debating in France, this documentary offers an unprecedented look at these questions.

Chronicles of Humanity: Redemption

A man and his donkey go through their day-to-day routine in a rural Spain.

"A woman about to give birth. A nurse who skips an unfair order. A worker who claims his rights. A child who begins to discover the society in which he lives. A teacher haunted by his identity. A young woman in a hostile world. Six stories that show us the day-to-day lives of the Saharawis who livein the occupied territories of Western Sahara."

An abandoned room. A sick person, wheelchair-bound. The three phases of death: helplessness, battle and acceptance. A macabre dance with death.

In a Hawaiian tourist shop, a tiki toy is in love with a hula girl bobble toy. However, what happens when he has to compete with an arrogant flame dancer? Worst of all, a customer whisks them both away, leaving the tiki behind! Will the tiki toy be able to reach them in time?

'Poet: An Intimate Discussion with Wade Radford' is a brand new, independent documentary about the life and work in Poetry of Underground Filmmaker and Actor Wade Radford. Known globally for his controversial role in 'TWINK' as well as other film credits in the LGBT market including; 'Sex Lies and Depravity', '1 Last Chance at Paradise' and 'Boys Behind Bars' - Wade behind the scenes has been releasing Poetry anthologies and read aloud recordings online for the last eight years. 'Poet' explores the themes of Wade's work and for the first time ever introduces the audience to this complex and candid individual. Up until now Radford has hidden behind the mask of his work; but those days are over. Join Wade as he embarks on a week long road trip, visiting places that inspired the poetry and remain dear to his heart

A quirky and surrealistic action/comedy where a brave heart takes a wild journey inside the body to try to sort out the problems of a hungover morning.

A selfie-film.

A village far away in time and land. Nearby, in a forest thought to be haunted, a child falls into a pit. His grandfather, an old and nearly blind shepherd, tries to convince the villagers to go rescue him, facing the darkness of the night and their fears…

Every day, Anton waits for the night to come. Every night, Alexandre comes and visits him. But this situation can't last, the living and the dead are not meant to meet.

Since her retirement from professional ballet, Dame Darcey Bussell has become a formidable advocate for promoting dance at all stages of life, and to help not just the body, but just as importantly the mind. She has piloted dance classes for schoolchildren across the country and spoken in Parliament calling for dance to be a key part of the curriculum to help children's fitness. She is aware that tackling our mental health crisis is an important challenge that affects many in the UK today and strongly believes that the value of dancing is undervalued in improving our mental health. So in this programme, Darcey's mission is to meet a wide range of people using dance as therapy and as a result experiencing the joy of 'dancing to happiness'.

Candela, a 17-year-old girl, struggles to survive in a hostile environment, where the air she breathes has become lethal.

Documentary on the recording of the score for the 2016 restoration of F.W. Murnau's Der Gang in die Nacht.

On the 15th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, ‘Mirrors of Diaspora’ explores themes of exile, creativity, identity and war told through the lives of seven Iraqi artists living outside the country of their birth for close to half a century. The artists featured in this documentary belong to a group known as ‘Iraqi Artists in Exile’. Filmed over three decades, this ambitious project explores their challenges, failures and successes, both as artists and in their private lives: from the time they graduated from art school in the 1970s, working as street artists in the piazzas of Rome and Florence, to becoming well-known. The central question the film poses is: what are the consequences of spending most of one’s life in exile? At a time of unprecedented global migration when barely a day passes without a tragic story played out in the international media, ‘Mirrors of Diaspora’ contributes to greater understanding of one of the defining issues of our time.

In this work, sixteen Bloody Marys are woven together, mostly from amateur and high school musical productions found on the internet and interlaced with the artist’s own rendition and the original Bloody Mary from Rogers and Hammerstein’s stage musical South Pacific.