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In a dense and icy forest, Piotr, a young hunter, finds himself violently paralyzed by a bear trap. While he is slowly freezing to death, the prey he was hunting approaches…

A young film crew searches for ways out of the climate crisis. In different cities they meet people who commit their lives to preserving our environment in different ways. In inspiring conversations they talk about their thoughts, motivation and hope and why we have to break out of our comfort zone. 8 protagonists try to reach out for solutions for climate justice in our future and open up perspectives of hope.

Pasquale Donatone, aka Tony, is the taxi driver who drives us through America land of dreams and Italy land of broken dreams. Tony is a backward deported immigrant. He left italy 40 years ago when he was child and he became American but he did some mistakes, more than one. The biggest was to sign to be deported, instead of go in jail for ten years because of its second work: loading illegal mexicans immigrant and delivery drugs. Now he was deported in a small town in South of Italy, and he has to wait ten years before he can return legally to US but ten years aren’t easy to live. The waiting time is too long and Italy is a country without hopes. For sure he can’t wait anymore. A story of immigration, drug, love and sense of union in a country that change you inside, the United States of America.

At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.

An adventure of extreme skiing in the Mont Blanc area

The writers Cesare Pavese and Jean-Luc Lagarce had a tragic destiny. The first committed suicide after a sentimental disappointment and the second died of AIDS. Sex holds a central place in their diaries.

On the western-most point of Brittany, in the lighthouse, at night, Damien is busily building a mysterious something out of pieces of mirror. The more the storm makes itself known, the more he hurries. When Isabelle arrives in the village, suddenly he is seized by a sense of urgency.

Ayman, an overweight boy, is determined to face his insecurities by spending a day in a public pool. But the "swimsuit proof" will be full of little obstacles that will put the boy in trouble.

"Se ti sabir" is a film reflecting on language, intelligence, and our relationship with new technologies and non-human species.

Rebeca recounts the ways of loving that she has lived and experienced throughout her life.

A couple suffers a serious car accident. Ernesto, who was driving, feels guilty that Isabel has become paralyzed from the waist down. In search of calm, they move to the countryside, where her aunt Clara will be able to take care of her. Against all odds, Isabel begins to recover miraculously. Clara is a religious woman but she is afraid, god isn't the one who is helping her niece. Unconcerned by Clara's fears, Ernesto will wander confused and trapped in a mysterious tragedy.

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will arise in the most unpleasant of forms.

The bond between a farmer and his cow is unlike any other and it would take some out of this world forces to separate them.

A short film about a boy, Cozmo, who feels uncomfortable being in public with his boyfriend. After realizing he is not the only one affected by the situation he decides to overcome his fears

Within the large wooded grounds of the pedagogical medical institute La Pépinière, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a dozen eager, frank and spontaneous teenagers engage in a game of staging and cinema. An occasion for experimenting with music, poetry, love and philosophy, the institute becomes a stage for confidence and escape - revealing the inner tug of war between the quest for the mundane and the extraordinary.

Two grannies worried that something unpleasant had happened to the person they were waiting for.

Chronicling several significant events in their troubled relationship, "Kindling" is comprised of three individual vignettes that follow Mary's experiences with her mother and her mother's alcoholism.

When 31,000 policemen take action against 50 tree occupants and tear gas and truncheons are used, a 550-hectare "pedunculate oak-hornbeam-lily-of-the-valley-forest" becomes a symbol of resistance. Since 2015, director Karin de Miguel Wessendorf has accompanied the protests against the clearing of the Hambacher forest and against the destruction of the villages on the edge of the lignite opencast mining, the largest CO2 source in Europe. First it was only a rebellion of individual groups with different goals, but in the autumn of 2018 the protest against the clearing finally becomes one broad supraregional movement.

Paul comes out of the hospital where, after a series of tests, his doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. Devastated by this news, he decides to hit the roads of France.

When a girl is given a pair of binoculars for her birthday, she discovers a new hobby of people-watching.

What drives the small community of Frascaro, near Norcia, to remain tied to a land that never ceases to tremble? What moves its inhabitants to dig with their bare hands in the rubble of a church? A crucifix to be reassembled for the patronal procession, a canvas partly buried under the stones that preserve collective memory and signs of atavistic traditions, become emblems of resilience, proud belonging, defence of a culture that wants to stay alive, challenge to isolation after the earthquake. Not far away, in Campi, a group of restorers work to recover fragments of an invaluable artistic heritage, crumbled by the effects of an implacable nature. At the same time, in total isolation at an altitude of one thousand metres, a monk lives in harmony with God in respect of the ora et labora rule, tirelessly reinforcing his hermitage, not at all frightened by a land he has learned to love.

Explore the life of renowned historical figure Mahatma Gandhi, a lawyer, political ethicist, and anti-colonial nationalist whose non-violent methods led a movement that helped India successfully gain independence from Britain in 1947.

A young female partisan is forced to choose between executing her Commander or her brother.

The night when Victor Frankenstein finishes creating his creature, a dream filled with hallucinations troubles his sleep. A genuine fantasy of incest, this dream, reawakening both the memory of a childhood romance and the ghost of his dead mother, frightens Victor as much as the creature waiting for him behind the bed curtain.

A poetic testimony by Jabbar Abdullah that remembers an intact Syria. In 2011 he experienced the outbreak of war and escaped until a river led him to his new home.

Manic-depressive Jack must find a way to leave his manic highs behind him. Can the dullness of ordinary life ever compare to the magic of mania? And is sanity and stability really worth the sacrifice?

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainability in his architecture. This film takes us with slow steps, in still images, to two villages he created. Fathy's historically grounded, forward-looking designs prompt us to reflect on the past as well as contemplate new solutions for the future.

Major Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she acts out her dreams to float weightlessly in space.

The film is set around a dark, surreal mood and it's ultimately about feeling unease and needing to be pushed to make the right choices.

Two mothers, one child. Marcie is a performance artist known for her daring and provocative stage shows. Dawn is an ex-model turned stay at home mum. Bailey is their three-year-old daughter. Each mother envies the other mother's role. One gets bath-times and stories, the other gets a grand evening entrance after an exciting day's work. Dawn is the biological mum, Marcie has no DNA bond. Dawn feels like she's lost her individuality. She compensates by becoming the best mother in the house. She gradually pushes her wife out, one quirky ornament at a time. Until the living room is a playpen and Marcie's daring paintings are replaced with reading lists and nutrition guidelines.

Experimental short film featuring artwork by Daisuke Ichiba.

An asshole and his little cousin are asked to carry the market from the trunk of a car to their apartment. The asshole takes advantage and makes his directorial debut in this "Documentary" while using his poor cousin as a slave. Great shabby documentary about anxiety, routine and the fragility of existence.

Documentary revealing how a murky brown medicine invented in 1886, containing cocaine, became the best-selling soft drink of all time. Cameras are allowed access to the company's gigantic bottling factory in Wakefield. There's also a look through the archive library at Coca-Cola's Atlanta HQ and an interview with the actor who played the Diet Coke hunk in the famous TV advert campaign, discovering his his life was changed for ever.

A bomb hits, the windows vibrate—just a few minutes later, the needle starts buzzing again. In a city full of conflict, Poko Chaim and Daniel Bulitchev, two Russian tattoo artists, have created a place where there are no walls. Here, they immortalize the stories of Jerusalem's inhabitants. The ink under their skin connects them all. A glance at their tattoos sheds a whole new light on the heart of the Holy City and its inhabitants. The tattoo studio is open to everyone, regardless of nationality, religion, or skin color. The conversations that take place under painful circumstances often resemble confessions. Customers provide insight into their lives in this controversial city, their beliefs, and their fears in this constant conflict that shapes their everyday lives. There are moments when Poko and Daniel are almost simultaneously psychologists and artists...

A short film from one roll of Super-8 (Ektachrome 100D) with sound recorded in the same location.

A summary of Eric Rohmer's "A Summer's Tale" in one animated minute, by Marion Auvin.

This film captures Rattle's very first performance as Music Director; a programme in which British composers took centre-stage. The world-premiere of Helen Grime's Fanfares, which became the first movement of the work Woven Space, opened the concert before violinist Christian Tetzlaff took to the stage to perform the concerto written for him in 2010 by Harrison Birtwistle. Two more works close to Rattle's heart followed: Thomas Adès' Asyla and the pocket-sized Symphony No 3 by the late Oliver Knussen. Finally, Rattle's stunning interpretation of the Enigma Variations brought the concert to a close and then the audience to its feet, filling the Barbican Hall with rapturous applause.

Liliane decides to move to a nursing home to care for her husband, who is slowly losing his sense of self. A touching voyage into the unpredictable world of aging.