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Manel and Judit broke up three months ago, but they set a date to spend together a last ski weekend.

Returning to Kyiv to search for his missing dog during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, director Stas Kapralov documents his journey as he joins forces with volunteers and becomes part of a movement to rescue animals caught in the crossfire of war.

At the head of a China which aspires to become the first world power, the Chinese Communist Party is both the most powerful and the most secret political organization on the planet. For the first time, witnesses from the inside unveil the workings and evoke the backstage of a "black box" where capitalism without limits meets totalitarianism and forced confessions. From the economic opening of the late 1980s to the "zero Covid" nightmare, the party and its leaders have kept the cult of secrecy, the obsession with control and paranoia as their raison d'être.

What do we say to each other when it's over ? A man and a woman decide to split the city in two to avoid any possibility of running into each other. Or is it to better remember ?

From the music of UK composer Alex Heffes, American filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe pays homage to Ghent, Belgium and its film heritage. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

Àlex Cirera, grandson of Félix Izquierdo, bikes over 2000 km from Terrassa (Catalonia) to Mauthausen (Austria) to honor his grandfather's memory, who was killed in Gusen, the Nazi concentration camp.

While rehearsing on stage, a mime notices that he can create objects from his past and is therefore confronted with a long-repressed memory.

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues behind these stone giants built over 4,500 years ago.

Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, an experienced midwife who listens to them attentively. Sitting in a circle, the women reflect on the impending birth of their children and their own emerging roles as mothers.

Everybody is exhausted. Thankfully, a novel new wellness craze promises to help people vent their worldly frustrations. It's certainly worked for Alderbrook. He feels lighter already. ...For now, anyway.

Bear Grylls travels to Ukraine to meet and interview the Ukrainian president. Along the way, he witnesses the consequences of conflict for the people of Ukraine and learns more about the experiences of ordinary Ukrainians.

An anxious teen hopes to scam some money from her estranged father, but their imperfect relationship reaches a breaking point when he arrives but doesn't look at all like she remembered.

As news of the war in Ukraine breaks, people around the world come together to show their solidarity. This film follows the story of three women in Scotland who, at the wake of the crisis, show their support for the people of Ukraine in small but heartfelt ways. In following their stories, the film shows ordinary people finding meaning and overcoming powerlessness through everyday acts in their local communities. These stories show our deep need to connect and resist and, whether we can change the world or not, are a bittersweet yet hopeful reminder of our common humanity. In the words of Volodymyr Zelenskyy "home is also the front line".

STRATA INCOGNITA, is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and a somatic archive of crimes, memories and myths.

A super 8 film by Blanca García

The story of repetitions of our repetitions.

A woman returns from the beach and ends up taking a little more home with her than she thought.

Ali Silver is a life coach but how did he wake up on the pub dance floor in only his boxers, socks and shoes?

Claude Conseil lives with her husband in a house in the middle of the woods. She spends her time listening to birds. One day, mysterious phone calls break the calm of the forest.

'How are you' asks the voice in his ear. 'Okay' Lars answers to avoid the question. The artificial intelligence seems to understand him and tries to help. A group of men. They have identical tents and the same voice in their ear. A post-humanist gaze into the forest.

‘In Our Millions’ is a short film about Scottish solidarity with Palestine filmed during the November 11th protests. It is a Super8 film collaboratively shot and ecologically hand-processed over the course of a day as part of a workshop run by Lydia Beilby and Take One Action.

Eyewitnesses give first hand testimony about the worst natural disaster to strike Britain in modern times. On 31 January 1953, a massive storm and its huge tidal surge flooded 250 square miles of land from the Shetlands to the Thames estuary, killing hundreds of people, sinking several ships, and destroying tens of thousands of homes. Few remember this disaster that shocked the country as it emerged from the trauma of World War II, but those who do remember it vividly.

Dita Rita Scholl has been an actor and pioneer of queer performance art since the 1970s. Having experienced frequent rejection throughout life, Rita developed a strong longing for physical and emotional touch. This short documentary provides intimate insight into the search for human connection and how this endless hunger can be satisfied through tantric rituals.

Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a land border between the African continent and Europe. In transit through the city, Malik and his friends, miners of Moroccan origin, try to reach Europe by any means necessary. Day after night, they are up to no good, running the city in all directions, turning it upside down like a glove, like seismographs revealing the most burning present like the movements of the most distant past, taking all the risks to cross the barriers, to cross the waters of the port, climbing on the boats… Stay there, as if dead before being born? Rather "burn the sea" than die before having lived.

After the success of El Madrileño's album, C. Tangana faces the challenge of creating the most ambitious tour of his career and revolutionizing the concept of live performance. 'This Excessive Ambition' is a journey that follows the artist for more than four years, from the genesis of the album in Cuba to the conceptualization of the show, through the hostility of negotiations, rehearsals, uncomfortable conversations, the most intimate celebrations and the maelstrom of concerts throughout Spain and Latin America

A poem about a person with jelly for a head.

Tells seven stories about women that serve to illustrate a trip to a world of emotions, with questions about beauty and imperfection, and the importance of the small things in life.

A man goes to a carnival with his girlfriend and the two are attacked and harassed by a gang of violent men. The protagonist then develops a desire to learn martial arts in order to be able to fight better in the future.

From great plains of Oklahoma to mountains in south west of France, two native cultures match each other. Two women talk about their culture, their threatened language. Isabelle from France in the Osage country, Chelsea from the Osage country in France.

A short documentary which, starting from the experience of its five protagonists, takes us inside the team which presents itself not only as a tool for access to sport, but also as a political means for the entire transgender community to claim its identity and all rights denied.

Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard is the story of two Hollywood movie stars, accusing each other of domestic violence, during a libel suit broadcasted online, followed in the entire world. During the spring of 2022, this media uproar was going along with an unprecedented online smear campaign against the actress. In fact, behind the casual banter, lie groups of angry men which, for many years, have the hate of women as their prority : masculinists.

Comedian Hakim Jemili takes to the stage at Montreux Comedy accompanied by his most valuable "instrument" of work: a park bench. This bench is where almost all of his sketch projects, Instagram stories, film pitches, and even his love story with Fadily Camara began.

Lea is an aspiring actress. In her new movie, she is confronted with a romantic scene but struggles to perform it - a problem with deeper roots.

John's curiosity and stupidity leads Stevie and Neil into an impossible scenario that goes from bad to worse and pushes the boundaries of family and friendship.

Daily life in the years 2016-2019 in Krymske, a village in Ukraine not far from the front line, after the Minsk agreements were broken. There is no background music in this film, only real sounds: footsteps in the snow, engines, people talking. A life that seems to have come to a standstill.

One day, the village policeman Leon Pawlak has to record an unusual report. 15-year-old Lucja reports the murder of her therapist. According to her, the crime hasn't even happened yet - but the half-orphan saw it in a dream. Therefore, Dr. Viktoria Wex sees no need for action for the time being. But that all changes when the therapist's dead body is found in a lake...

Amid the highs of a school romance, Angel is forced to confront a difficult new reality when explicit photographs of her are shared online. Her boyfriend, Benji, swears that he didn't do it... but who else could have? Why is her best friend Jennifer suddenly very distant? Why has everything changed?

This story told in analog -super 8- tells how one girl meets another at the bus stop. It all begins simply with an exchange of glances that develops a romantic situation that is too idyllic. How does a person go from being a stranger to being the center of your attention?

Explores how Hitler’s personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.

Ed and Gina are having problems in there relationship; they decide to take some time away, hiring a place to stay in the country. Instead of peace they find themselves encountering an audio affecting virus, a parasite that will slowly bring them to the point of insanity.

Two roommates fight over who goes to buy the bread.

Something is very wrong with the smartly dressed woman in the cornfield. No sooner has she made her way out of the thicket than a fateful encounter with a farmer and his son takes its course. Something ominous controls the young woman's body and wants to get out. It wants to escape through her lips. And it wants to find new victims.

Growing up Mell wished her autistic brother could speak - now, in adulthood, she realises you don’t have to talk to explain what you need. KIN is a coming of age story between two sisters (Mell and Janine) and their neurodivergent and autistic brother (Carl), exploring sibling relationships, family duty and care.

27-year-old Anna and Jonas, who is one year older, get to know each other through their university clique. The initial attraction leads to an unspectacular one-night stand that seems like the beginning of a light summer affair. However, the encounters between the two are also characterized by a lot of friction and provocation. Then something happens that completely changes their lives: after a party with lots of alcohol, the two have sex. Later, Anna thinks she was raped by Jonas. Anna feels traumatized and thinks she can remember her “no.” Jonas, on the other hand, remembers consensual sex. The only person Anna can initially confide in is her sister Daria, who advises her to report the crime. Eventually, those around you also find out about the accusation. Friends have to take a stand. The podcaster Kelly researches the events and tries to explore attitudes and discourses surrounding the case and its effects on victims, perpetrators and those around them.