Milton Keynes, the Dubai of the UK, the fake city of no history, the perfect utopia we had always been searching for.
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Milton Keynes, the Dubai of the UK, the fake city of no history, the perfect utopia we had always been searching for.
Aren’t surprise birthday parties lovely, especially when you’re celebrating a steadfast family elder? This very short gathering is a big surprise for everyone invited.
Lesley Whittle was just 17 when she was snatched by Donald Neilson - the Black Panther.
Triumphantly premiered in 1724 at the King's Theatre in London, George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto masterfully combines human emotions: Triumph with sorrow, despair with happiness and love with profound melancholy in the face of the transience of all earthly life. Star director Keith Warner creates a production that imaginatively blends silent film and baroque opera, delightfully echoing Mankiewicz's legendary Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton. An excellent cast of singers is led by two of the world's leading countertenors: Bejun Mehta and Christophe Dumaux. Louise Alder shines as the seductive Cleopatra. Patricia Bardon, Simon Bailey and Jake Arditti are further highlights in this extraordinary group of singers, while Ivor Bolton provides the appropriate soundtrack on the podium of the Concentus Musicus Wien.
Rocko Schamoni plays a rock star who has aged in the isolation of his castle, whose everyday life takes place somewhere between daily toast and Ludwig II. Posters and prizes remind us of his greatest, possibly only successes, which he celebrated in the 80s of the last century. Otherwise, there is now emptiness in his house and life.
Presenter and comedian Andreu Buenafuente interviews Joan Gràcia, Paco Mir and Carles Sans moments after the conclusion of their last performance at the Liceu Theater in Barcelona, the culmination of their forty-three-year career on stages all over the world as Tricicle, a brilliant, ineffable, unforgettable, irreplaceable comedy trio.
Plagued by injuries, former world champion powerlifter Kirill Sakharov re-examines his origins and mentality as he seeks to overcome self-doubt and return stronger.
In 2022, for the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale, Italy will be represented by a single artist: Gian Maria Tosatti. Since 2018 Tosatti has concentrated all his practice on a project entitled "My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror", an episodic visual novel, developed around the world with the aim of witnessing the state of crisis of democracy in the West. The Odessa Episode - which follows the stages of Catania, Riga and Cape Town - is the installation developed by the artist after a long period spent in Ukraine, in the most dramatic moment of the Covid-19 emergency, when the country was closed to foreigners. The film recounts the efforts made to carry out a powerfully visionary work in those difficult months.
It's 2020. Covid Britain is in lockdown and the world is working from home. In the depths of the deadly pandemic and when people are at their lowest, someone spots an opportunity.
The Piano, the Voice, and the Talent of a Young Artist. For the first time live, she will perform selections from her debut album, along with some unmissable classics.
Outside of time and space, a rare event occurs in the Uncle Donaldverse. An awards ceremony celebrating the achievements of the Uncle Donald boys begins, hosted by a funny comedian. Which Uncle Donald videos will take away the prizes, which will be left behind, and what is a Carmen's Cooking Show? All will be revealed, and more, in the Uncle Donald Awards.
The story of Arci Movie is also a bit that of the last 30 years of Ponticelli, a district of 50,000 inhabitants on the eastern outskirts of Naples. A story made up of testimonies, memories, images, love for culture and for a territory which, with the promotion of cinema as a sign of sharing, has been able to change its perspective. Many well-known faces took part in the 90s in the battle to save the Pierrot cinema, a historic hall destined to become a supermarket like many others. Many activists, educators and citizens protagonists of a history of cinema that has left marks in the community like few other experiences in the recent history of Naples.
Short by Maurizio Braucci.
Rémy only wants one thing, and that’s to die. He does his best to commit suicide, until he has to save the life of a frog.
Thousands of undocumented migrants are illegally employed and exploited in the Italian crops to grow Italy's food. One Day One Day follows their lives from the inside of Italy's biggest slum.
Noah and his sister prepare for a family meal where Noah plans to reveal his gender transition. He arrives at Christmas dinner seemingly unchanged, with a new mustache. Despite the father’s anticipation of sharing big news, Noah and his sister inadvertently draw attention to family dysfunctions. Meanwhile, their grandfather, showing signs of Alzheimer’s, struggles to remember when Noah became his grandson.
Spain, 1997. The story of twelve days in July during which Basque society left indifference and fear behind and faced the threat of the terrorist group ETA.
Horst Krause picks up a girl on the wintry country road and brings her back to the "Kinderhaus Sonnenschein" in the neighboring village. This sets a series of events in motion that brings a few guests, big and small, to the country inn in Schönhorst during the Advent season.
The virtual British band Gorillaz will bring their comic characters to life at Flow Festival 2022. As part of their Gorillaz European tour, they will be stopping off at Flow Festival in Helsinki. An event that matches the band's stature. Founded by Britpop legend Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett, the internationally acclaimed band Gorillaz has turned singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle, and drummer Russel Hobbs into international superstars. Since their debut album Gorillaz in 2001, the band has developed a unique universe in which visual art and visionary pop form the perfect chemistry, resulting in a continuous and relevant creation that audiences have been unable to get enough of since their formation in 1998. The Grammy and Brit Award-winning band has been named the world's most popular virtual band by The Guinness World Records.
In a dystopian world where the air sends you to sleep, a timid romantic uses the only gas mask and her imagination to experience a fulfilling romance with an unconscious heartthrob.
Having made it to Italy, an Ivorian named Inza now plans to cross the mountains to France. Without stylisation, the film observes his everyday life: affairs with women, brushes with European asylum law and the impossibility of finding peace.
When Champollion, famous for having deciphered the mystery of hieroglyphics, sets foot on the land of Egypt for the first time and finally meets Ramses II in the sumptuous temple of Abu Simbel, his fascination for this civilisation reaches its peak.
Advised by an administration full of good intentions, Latefa and her two children Walid and Ptissam Frenchize their first names at the same time as they acquire French nationality. They face this unique ordeal with humor and lightness, just before the start of the school year.
Grace Brennan is celebrating her 17th wedding anniversary with her husband Christopher when she finds a beautiful and precious ring in his pocket - but contrary to expectations, it is not meant for her. To her astonishment, she later sees the ring on the hand of musical actress Sarah Moretti.
Jana is a photographer who decides to leave her job and her city after the tragic death of her partner. Before leaving, she has to do one last report where she will meet Arlet and Estel, two painters who will push their lives towards a very different destination than they would have ever imagined.
A short-film depicting the final moments of Hazel, a young woman grieving the loss of her partner...or at least she thinks it is. When she meets Dev, her eyes are opened to the beauty of the world around her.
This debut film by Alain Kassanda starts off as a process of self-examination: How well does he really know his grandparents? How true are his ideas about his birth country DR Congo, whose national identity was partly molded by the Belgian colonizers? And, by extension, how much does he know about himself? In Colette et Justin, Kassanda travels through time and his own past, in the process bringing postcolonial Congo to evocative life.
After finding some videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself has left on the Internet. A search that looks into all that things that won't never die and that, especially, thinks about the way we look at ourselves.
1994, Rwanda. As the genocide rages on, a pastor and his young daughter take shelter in the hut of a feared shaman : Bazigaga. Hunted by the militias and trapped with the strange woman sorcerer, Karembe seeks a way out.
The village of Odenton is cursed. Every month, for three nights as long as days, the sky turns purple, and the moon red. Doors lock, curtains close, and Odenton falls silent...as beasts arrive to hunt. Not a soul is heard...except for a Doctor determined to cure the curse, and end the BLOODHAVEN.
A nightmarish journey that seems to hold more significance than it seems.
Annaëlle goes to her family's abandoned house, determined to find answers.
Explores the ways that many queer people have to learn to covertly hide their sexuality very often before and after they realise they are gay/lesbian/queer etc. This film shares personal stories from my own experience as a gay man, and the different ways I had to navigate my homosexuality growing up through ‘covert operations’ + how some men are forced to lead a 'double life', in heterosexual relationships whilst knowing they are gay.
In the small village of Heartwood lives Edgar, a young vampire who unlike his illustrious ancestors feeds exclusively on love.
Old friends, Mohand and Sophie, rehearse their new play about Sudan. Navigating the country’s politics and culture the unlikely pair use comedy and the joy of creativity to tell a very personal narrative about Mohand’s longing to return home and his inability to do so. As the UK government increases its hostile legislation towards refugees this film focuses attention on issues of representation and more immediately how we make a dream of home a reality.
20 years on, BBC Sport's Miriam Walker-Khan looks at the impact Bend It Like Beckham had on audiences, its legacy in the world of sport and how its humour and characters still make it relatable today.
After the death of his friend, drowned in the sea, the protagonist decides to take revenge in the only possible way: by killing the Atlantic Ocean.