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A ring, received as a gift from a loved one, because of its cusp-shaped top, is considered by the viewer to be an ideal defense tool.

Deniz Aytekin has been refereeing Bundesliga matches since 2008 and international matches since 2012. In 2019, he was voted "Referee of the Year" by the DFB. Players and coaches have great respect for him. No wonder: his height of 1.97 meters and his striking facial expression alone are impressive. Above all, however, Deniz Aytekin impresses with his body language and his manner on the pitch. He simply radiates a natural authority. Deniz Aytekin is also an exciting personality off the pitch - as a successful entrepreneur and amateur DJ. He deals with the stress of everyday life with electronic music and yoga.

An ordinary woman's day is becoming more and more stressful: neither on the street, nor in the office, nor in the bar, she can feel at peace and safe until she reaches the point of no return.

This documentary produced by Aldarte, a Centre for LGBTI Advice and Documentation, and financed by the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council aims to collate and share the main findings of the research study entitled “Strategies for tackling hate crimes due to sexual orientation and gender identity – an overview” and so explore the reality experienced by LGBTI people in different contexts. This work tries to provide a comprehensive view of SOGI hate crimes, emphasising survival actions, confrontation mechanisms and transformation strategies forged from the personal and collective experience of participant.

Giuditta Rissone was on the stage since she was a child. The history of ‘Italian-style’ theatre is characterised by families that, across the generations, brought to life characters and situations from the folk tradition and beyond.

Short film.

Former conservative Justice Secretary Ann Widdecombe visits a Norwegian prison that has been described as the most luxurious of its kind.

An aspiring teenage rapper from Afghanistan, finds himself stuck in Athens with a group of friends. Through music and poetry he tries to make sense of the world around him.

1939. Thousands of refugees were concentrated in the last republican sectors of Catalonia to cross into France. Through the Camprodon Valley, in the Pyrenean region of Ripollés, some 100,000 people crossed to the neighboring country: civilians, military, international brigades, including doctors and wounded. The war in Spain was ending, but soon another would begin. 100,000 people left their homes behind. Many would return, others would continue the fight.

Hanna is being followed by a stranger and finds refuge in a public bathroom. Locked in there, she reconnects with herself in an unexpected manner.

158 days after a parasitic virus infected the vast population of the globe, two survivors attempt to scavenge supplies from an abandoned building, unaware of who or what may be lurking inside.

How can we visualize Body Ownership? We connected Body Ownership with an I-perspective, looking for images that uncover the multiplicity of the ‘I’ First person plural. Strapping two body cameras (GoPros) to our chests, we move in direct body contact. Our premise is that both I-perspectives of the cameras are at interplay with each other, showing that gaze is never produced by a singular entity. Instead, it is the result of bodies touching and reacting constantly to each other. The body cameras are joined by an external camera – a third-person perspective. While it may hold a position of power as the one who frames the image from the outside, it desires to dive into the collective I-perspective. BE-LONGING. At one point the gazes of the I-perspectives and the outside camera meet – they look at each other looking. Gazes conjoined with bodies. Body is spatiosocially bound, is situated.

The film visits descendants of Thuringians who were expelled in 1852 in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

Luis will meet Isabella by chance, motivated by the greed of his uncle Fernando and the impulsiveness of his cousin Raúl. The streets of the city will lend itself to a new type of "business" and although in just minutes one person can lose things of value, it will only take moments for two people to lose their will.

Between Jesus' childhood and the beginning of his mission, almost twenty years seem to have been lost to history. This work attempts to take a journey through the 'silent years' of Jesus, suspended between history and legend, between ancient texts written in Sanskrit, legends, and stories that recount his possible travels to the East.

Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.

A woman living in a transparent box, oranges floating on the seashore, and the movement of an oscillating stone are stories that are interwoven by the Tramuntana wind; a wind explored in this film through the people of Alt Empordà, through their experiences and imagination surrounding this mythical power [Punto de Vista].

In Wuqiao, a small Chinese town, the inhabitants are dedicated to circus. For decades, different generations have been presenting themselves as clowns, magicians, acrobats and tamers. During the holidays of Chinese New Year, the Wuqiao Acrobatic World turns into a big playground for spectators. Surrounded by Buddhist temples and Taoist sculptures, artists create their own space of circus tradition, imagination, illusion and reality. Backstage life is melancholic. "Wuqiao Circus", a film about circus life fragments, performative existence and the love for playfulness.

During the filming of the documentary film “The Gift”, Giuliano Fratini meets the master Marlen Khutsiev, who agrees to speak about Tarkovsky. But before being asked any questions, as a sign of thanks to his Italian guests, he wants to talk about Italy and in particular about Fellini, about the friendship they forged at the Moscow Festival in 1963. Back then the Italian master asked to meet him, the little Georgian who had problems with the regime. This small film is a tribute to the Italian genius but also to the Georgian master.

Three characters are depicted recounting the same event. None of them have the same version of the facts...

Left Unsaid is an experimental animated film about cultural dysphoria and the disconnect between grandfather and grandchild caused by an ever-growing language barrier.

Santiago and Catalina are a young couple living in a quarantined city decimated by a strange disease when a pervasive noise threatens to change their lives completely.

In 1483, the twelve-year-old King Edward V and his younger brother were put into the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard. Weeks later, Richard pronounced himself King. The boys were never seen again. For centuries it has been assumed that Richard killed his nephews in a craven attempt at glory. But according to some, Richard was no child-killing monster. Rather, he was the finest King England ever had. Others say nobody killed the princes at all, and they lived anonymously into old age, far away from the cut-throat world of the English court. This film seeks the truth behind the mystery of their fate.

This film shows and (self)reflectively critiques different vignettes/scenarios that men cruise i.e., look for men for sex or purely look at men for homoerotic desire.

This project approaches fado music with updated visions of gender expression and representation in the LGBTI community. Lila Tiago and João Caçador talk about growing up queer, Portugal, gender and queer awareness.

Set in the early 2000s. 5 teens with problems that they can’t handle, hit the road in an attempt of peace, love and understanding.

Isabel takes a carry-on suitcase and begins to fill it with clothes under Patricia's watchful eye. Each item of clothing that she puts in it will be one more step to overcome her fears and rebuild her broken dreams.

Me, My Brother and Our Balls is an intimate and personal documentary exploring male fertility with Love Island star Chris Hughes and his brother Ben. When Chris, who had suffered from testicular health scares in the past, appeared on live television to have a testicular examination, it made a huge impact.

Luka is a 23 year old Portuguese-British art student. With just hours to go before his family join him for his graduation show, he feels it’s the perfect time to share something very personal with his grandmother, who helped raise him and with whom he has a very strong bond. During this afternoon, they share feelings and memories, whilst discovering each others acceptances and self-realizations of love.

Bizimina combines documentary cinema with dance. Through a series of independent pieces, it composes a story around the emotions we find it so difficult to express these days: distance, longing for others, desire, the community spirit, impotence, isolation, confusion, hope. The choreography builds a tale serving to provide comfort and company in this uncertain time.

On the morning of 10 March 2020 all Italians woke up in quarantine. Io Resto a Casa ("I Stay Home") depicts the filmmaker's first 14 days of the Italian lockdown, without ever leaving the house, made entirely on the web through the stories of five Youtubers and dozens of videos and photographs made and shared all over Italy. Fourteen days of fears, hopes, enthusiasm, boredom, normality and extraordinariness. Fourteen days that we will always remember.

Lena Ditte Nissen has created a series of experimental short works on analogue film, which in a personal and often elliptical and dreamy language channels a subjective view on the world through the unexpected connections that arise between image and sound. Her most recent work is a portrait, and a new variation on her method. Before the camera, we encounter the formidable 87 year-old artist Margaret Raspé who works in photography, film, drawing and other art forms. Regardless of the medium, automatisms play a significant role in her art. Nissen transcends the traditional limits of the portrait genre and has created a congenial and loving tribute to a unique creative mind.

Two sisters reunite after years apart. Two opposing views of the father collide and each one defends a different truth about the deceased parent. In the meantime, they spot a mysterious object in one of the rooms. But they find themselves unable to uncover it.

The washing machine bites the dust: turning the humdrum life of a young couple upside down.

During the early moments of the Spanish Civil War, in a spanish village, Isidoro lives with his father Lucas and his horse Coco. Isidoro witnesses how his father, torn apart by their debts, wages his frustration upon Coco.

Short by Pierre de Vaulchier.

These are times of digital relationships. We spend a lot of time (s) connected through screens, jumping between being spectators and interpreters. Claudia follows her classes on Zoom daily and, while the teacher lectures on video art and experimental cinema, she only thinks of Fede. They look, they look at each other, they are looked at. With freshness, intelligence and humor, this secret piece that sublimates the importance of the minimum (a gesture, the look away, smiles?), Explores meeting points between online life and body languages. A fiction film, of a fantasy genre, that tells us about cyber love, life and art?

With a “retrofuturist” vision and from a hypothetical conflict scenario, this short fiction film offers a review of the original values ​​of Italianness in difficult times, from the perspective of two men dejected by a devastating present

Nude poetry reading: pure fun!

Amidst the debate over the right to abortion, the politicians have opposing views. Mario Macondo has his doubts about the project and the sad ending of the unborn zygotes.

Vero lives with her older brother Abel, and they both work together at a construction site. There she has to put up with the advances of some of the workers, which is something she’s used to doing because she’s had this job since she was a lot younger. In the Border follows this character on her path to becoming a better person, which is represented in her way of helping a cousin with an abusive husband and in the NGO she signs up for to give food to the homeless who live on Paseo Colón Avenue. But there’s another parallel film here, and it’s the one in which Campusano’s eye captures the City of Buenos Aires in his own unique way. One of those great moments takes place as soon as the film begins, when Campusano stops to film some street musicians while they rap on a subway platform.

When is it OK to not put your health first? This documentary examines questions of well-being and the ways people prioritize their fundamental values.