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Anders' father, Léonard, a renowned astrophysicist, disappeared several days ago in the middle of a dense forest of the Cévennes. Anders goes in search of him, sinking into the meanders of a still virgin nature, letting himself slowly be eaten away by his memories and anxieties.
This project is an oral history of London's dock workers focusing on the fascinating history of the people who worked on the docks of London from the 1930s up until the closing of the docks from the 1970s.
During a dress rehearsal for a fashion show, the model Nastja believes to have seen a murder. The victim is her friend Kira, but there is no trace of her. The detectives Anne Marie Fuchs and Youssef el Kilali, however, soon come across the body of the young woman in a clothes trolley belonging to the fashion company and begin to investigate.
When the limited-edition Lego-Batman Cup comes back into stock, two Agents set off on an exciting adventure to acquire the cup…. But things soon enough don’t go to plan!
In facing the lens and addressing an intangible audience, the face on the web becomes a disturbing mirror of its own growing dehumanization. Everyday makeup dissects this artificial mask by discovering the raw and pulsating matter of which it is made. The digital image is gutted and broken down, finally revealing its atom, its pure essence: the pixel. This autopsy process of the internettian non-body thus allows us to go back to an aesthetic root in which thought is not filtered and in which entertainment is reduced to an inevitable colored chaos.
A film adaption of the theatre play Humanequin, featuring an all transgender cast. This is a creative portrayal of three young people, where one person's dysphoria proves too much. The film features music from trans artists and scenes from Trans Pride 2018.
33 years after the disaster, 5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat, and on the Duga-1 antenna.
A man, returning home, has a car accident.
A swimmer is looking for her missing grandmother, who left without leaving any record of her existence. The swimmer reconstructs her in memories through the diluted memories of three older women: her two aunts and her mother.
Junkerhaus is shot in the residence of Karl Junker (1850 -1912) who dedicated his life to building his house in Lemgo, Germany. Reflections, projections and changes in light form abstract shapes which animate surfaces and structures, producing a psychological portrait that offers a new appreciation of Junker’s architecture as a mystical and visionary experience.
Latomia, Alepotripa, and Lykavittos are three hills overlooking the city of Athens. They are neither nature reserves nor parks with marked trails. They have no specific status or function, leaving room for other ways of living, wandering, and coexisting.
In the final days leading up to the Colombian national soccer finals, Jorge, a young man from the northeastern Colombia, travels 1,000 miles across the country with his friends to see his native Bucaramanga’s soccer team. Proving their commitment as loyal fans, they travel by illegally hopping onto tractor trailers to attend the most important game of the season — one that promises the team a chance to return to Division A of the Colombian professional soccer league after eight years in Division B.
Confident Marion works at a seaside town as a lifeguard. Although she rather avoids others, she meets shy Elise. Yet when Elise starts drowning one day, it triggers not Marion’s lifesaving instinct, but a dark desire. And it changes not only her own life.
Suppose one day you wake up and you’re on your own. Literally, absolutely on your own as if by magic or as if somebody were granting you a wish you’d made someday in the past. Everybody had disappeared
Distracted by their cellphones and tv, Vicente and Fabián forget Lucía's birthday. When Franco, the eldest, comes to visit, he forces his family to do without such technologies.
First part of the trilogy on language, on the birth of writing.
Two spirits meet in an alternative reality and discuss about life, death and desire.
BalletBoyz are back with two new works. Set to contrasting scores by Charlotte Harding and Keaton Henson, Them/Us is an inventive double bill asking where we see ourselves in relation to the “other,” and explores the fine balance between them and us.
Twenty-five-year-old Julian goes looking for love during a dating event in the mountains, but quickly strays off the beaten track.
The body of a young hooker is found one night in the center of Rome, killed with a single gunshot. By questioning the pimp who exploited the young woman, and the former prostitute who was the woman's best friend, two police officers will solve the mystery.
In times of political confusion, a man tries to get through training and incantation to solve the problems of the future with clairvoyance. He is waiting for his Savior, the thin man.
Emma had a c-section. She didn’t see her son when he was born. When she finally meets him, she doesn't recognize her baby. How could she? Little by little, mother and child fall in love. The Cut delicately explores the complexity of the bond between mother and child.
Over the course of a ten-year postal correspondence, a pair of movie-going pen-pals share their thoughts on some of 90s cinema’s key traits: the rise of video, the need for speed, and of course the cliff-edge sense of global dread. But do decades have ‘key traits’ at the time? Or do we assign them these characteristics retroactively, trying to make sense of things in hindsight? Only Leonard Nimoy knows for sure.
Hugues has just left Paris, where he was a film critic, to settle in the Bauges mountains. With an inheritance, he bought a small house which he is now renovating. The repairs are off to a difficult start. Camille, an actress he recently met, comes to visit him.
~ Here; come, restore, replenish, relax. Crafting a better world is not an easy adventure. Rest with me. ~ An experimental documentary exploring the meanings of rest: political, spiritual, tied to labour, associated with guilt. The film is Chapter R of April Lin’s long-term project, "An A-Z of Imagining A Better World", and serves as a reminder of rest as a structurally-negated necessity, a muscle worth training, and an essential strategy in the process toward liberation for all.
I’ve been told I am too slim to be a bear and too fat to be a cub. My frustration with labeling has led me to resist such discrimination, but I’m never going to escape these prejudices and pressures.
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.
Sebastián Acosta is an investigator who becomes entangled in a series of crimes related to the death of his girlfriend. But some things stray far from the ordinary.
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
Without Bounds to Beat is an experimental documentary that recounts a town’s revival of an ancient folk tradition, placing it in contrast to today’s digital technologies.
Five disturbing nightmares, ranging from the eerie to the erotic, guaranteed to keep you awake at night.
Letters sent from an imaginary post-capitalist time. One day I received a surprise phone call inviting me to spend the summer in Taipei. I had just mentioned the word "Taiwan" in a discussion a week earlier without really knowing why.The idea came to me to make a film about desire, the only way - I thought - to film not the reality a priori, but something underpinned by truth. Not the addition of the words but the movement they form by weaving the meaning to the music.
Considered to be Bec's magnum opus, I'll Be Bec features meticulous writing revealing a complexly crafted dystopian future as well as a remarkable futuristic outfit and an incredible high production finale. We'd hate to spoil it by saying too much, but this special, filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe, is not one to miss.
This document is a consecutive and linear collection of situations and characters (Mario Poggi, el Hon. Antonio Córdova Quezada) that are appearing without a greater objective than the search itself.
A hybrid film set in London by a Rwandan director, exploring a threeway relationship between a mysterious Nigerian man, a British woman and her ex. After his death, Simon appears to the ex as a ghost to tell his story, demanding a presence that was denied him as an asylum seeker. British and European political furor threaten both the director’s film plans and his stay in the UK. The fictional scenes are intercut with scenes of demonstrations.
Film shot during a Manic Street Preachers concert during the ‘Holy Bible 20’ tour in 2014.
Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced repatriation. 20 years later, Pauline Fonsny re-enacts this “State assassination” that shook the country and led to the resignation of the Minister of the Interior at the time.
John is consumed by guilt after a reckless act that results in the death of his best friend, Isaac. Everyone in the town is wary of him, and Isaac’s younger brother attacks him, goaded on by his friends. It is only through reconciliation with the younger brother, however, that both he and John can process their grief and move on.
Dr Fern Riddell is a young historian and author who goes back to the archives to challenge more traditional historical views of Victorian society. Her investigation into a sensational Victorian high court trial, which took place in 1877, sheds new light on the ‘no sex please, we are British’ cliché often associated with Victorian England.
A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.
The tale of the project 'Yarn against sexist violence'. From the origins of the Harituz association in Astigarraga (Basque Country) and guided by its protagonists, it describes the meetings, stories, actions and voyages at home and abroad. In this project, knitting is the vehicle which unites very different women, who become knitters in the fight, and who stand up to sexist violence from sisterhood. The Yarn, an enormous collective bow in progress, which is already more than 6 km long, is a space of symbolisation, where every stretch represents a life taken by sexist violence.
For centuries, Egyptian temples were victims of looting, earthquakes, desert encroachment, and floods, and were almost swallowed up by the waters of the Nile in the 20th century. This film aims to better understand the history of these temples. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover the exceptional heritage saved at the cost of a "pharaonic" trip.