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Bringing the viewer into the bedrooms of four 15-year-old girls with a behind-the-scenes view of the selfie, Heart Eyes and a World, raises questions about the normalisation of self-objectification.

Although he looks like a man, Amadeo Rossi has a child's soul. Like a child, he would like to pursue his dreams and live his life as if it were a game. Yet, this is something that adults are not allowed to do, since they are afraid of wasting time. Amadeo's life will have a meaning when he manages to find his own way towards a perfect world, the same world that a bad but much admired Minister has already invented (and built). This world will be the magical place where Jennifer will speak to him at last, as if in a dream within a dream. However, Minister Ovitac's world will only and secretly open its doors to his most faithful servants; the Uomo Samargantico will be able to enter it, too, although nobody knows who this mysterious man might be, or whether he really exists. Who is going to accompany Amadeo throughout his other-worldly journey?

A group of homeless women find the best of therapies in acting: a place where they bare their souls, manage to escape from their reality and gradually become empowered. In the weeks leading up to the premiere of their new play, we meet these goddesses, who have to face adversity on a daily basis, and who now face a new challenge: getting on stage and getting their message across through drama. Will they manage to get a standing ovation?

A group of crazed factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to strange desires. The hill watches them closely, commenting on their activities like a deranged poet.

A short artists' film about the dark and earthy material of charcoal and its transformation from wood, a process that has changed little in 30,000 years.

In 1984, Álvaro Ulcué Chocué, a Colombian Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist, was shot dead. The incident looms against the backdrop of a collage of two archive images from the same year. Documentary footage and fictional gangsters capture the state of a country dominated by drug cartels and social unrest.

Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the sectarianism for their corrupt ambitions. Unless there is a change, Lebanon will be lost forever.

Mario Lorenzini was a working class man, a hiker, a hunter, and a member of the Italian Walser community. In the 70s, he bought a super8 camera and started shooting home-movies with it. Through his lens we experience the seasons passing by in Priami, a small village on the Swiss-Italian border. With his cinematic eye, he explores the people around him, while a second point of view emerges, giving an interpretation of his world, his life and his sense of cinema. His relationship with masculinity and the missed relationship with the "other sex" is often highlighted, enhancing the conflict between the expectations of his community and the reality of not fitting in.

A monochromatic portrait of four skateboarders who ride a ramp back and forth like human metronomes, accompanied by musicians invited to create a soundtrack.

Producer and director Assonitis describes the difficulties in making his Beyond the Door.

A young man and an old man are on a boat in the middle of the night. As they approach a huge stone archway, they will make an unexpected encounter that will send them to the border of space and time.

Golam is a lonely man who comes back to Porto Cristo (Mallorca) after a while - As soon as he arrives he is shocked when he discovers that a criminal gang called "La Banda del Lobo" (The Gang of the Wolf) has taken over the place. People are in fear as the gang is terrorizing the population thanks to authorities' complicity and law enforcement's inactivity. But he'll do "Jostice".

Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, if Faust hands over his soul. Faust agrees, and Méphistophélès arranges matters so that Marguerite loses interest in her suitor Siébel and becomes infatuated with Faust. Faust initially seems to love Marguerite in return, but soon abandons her. Her brother Valentin returns from the war and is furious to find his sister pregnant. Will Faust repent his destructive actions, and can his soul, and Marguerite's, be saved?

Why is the horizon so blue?

A piece inspired by Soviet cinematic experiments that deconstructs the spectator's point of view, shortening the duration of each shot to create the illusion of superimposition.

THE COST OF LIVING is a documentary that explores the current socio-economic state of Britain and considers how the idea of a basic income could minimize poverty and the sociological toll of a growing precarious class. The film focuses on the feasibility of a basic income, John Rawls' theory of justice, automation and ultimately asks should there still be a cost attributed to survival?

A small documentary on Veneto, nature and its inhabitants.

Who is the queerest of them all? This queer off will reveal all! Warning: may include vogueing karate.

Where 'Paris is Burning' meets Hieronymous Bosch. A dip, a shablam, a death drop is when a dancer strikes a pose and dramatically falls on their back. The higher the fall, the spicier the dip. The story follows Shesa Quinn dipping from the top of a skyscraper. Gagged by her stunt, the townsfolk bellow spiral into chaos. Will Shesa land a perfect dip?

The history of Western Sahara was cut short more than 40 years ago. One, two and almost three generations have seen their life expectations and those of their children frustrated, powerless in the face of the impunity with which Morocco continues to occupy their territory. Through the life of Hask, a Sahrawi who has been living in Spain since he was 12 years old, the story of people who live in a borrowed desert far from their home is told.

Marco, a young artist, falls in love with his last sculpture depicting a beautiful woman in a seated position: he firmly believes that she is a real person rather than a block of clay. As the sculpture seems to ignore him, Marco starts losing his mind in a crescendo of jealousy and anger.

In the film, five people embark on a self-healing project. They radically change their lifestyle and take responsibility for their mind and body. Ranja gets in touch with herself through yoga, Stephan discovers the power of medicinal and wild herbs and Mona becomes pain-free through a vegan diet. Dominique finds vitality through sport and exercise and Chris lives mindfulness and meditation. What they all have in common is that they feel more happiness and vitality through change. Those who start with one area embark on the most beautiful journey of life: to their own BEING.

During the confinement of a global pandemic an astronaut talks to his couple about love, death and loneliness.

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

Part 1 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

A mysterious young man moves to a new town to work in a low level job in an isolated hotel, run by an unsympathetic bully who has deadly secrets of his own.

The ancient city of Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. Over the centuries, it slowly sunk beneath the sea. Amanda Ruggeri meets the archaeologists and engineers developing some surprising new technologies to protect the underwater site for future generations.

What if you never saw it rain?

A poetic short about the lives of a group of office workers, in particular an affair between two of them.

The worldʼs most valuable fashion brand LK stages the largest ever fashion show, a redefined season that will drift aboard an archive of the traditions of the endangered Indian Ajrakhpur block printing, unfolding a spectacle at a container port once in a decade. The very industrial mechanisms that have created disposable fashion seasons have been reengineered to celebrate and value traditional handcraft. Once a decade, people chase after it like the Northern Lights.

As the author of one of the most influential novels in Latin American literature, Paradiso (1966), the Cuban José Lezama Lima is considered a major figure in his country. In this documentary, the director and writer Ernesto Fundora, carries out a study on the author's life through the testimonies of a long list of writers, artists and personalities close to him. The result is a film that explores his work, but also pays a heartfelt tribute to his immeasurable figure.

In Cologne, a park bench ends up in the Rhine and floats with the flow - until one day it finally ends up in Langeoog. She is found on the beach by Gerold (Gerold Oltmanns) and his friends Wilhelm (Wilhelm Nessen) and Fokke (Marcel Willms) also join her after a short time. The three friends make it their mission to find the original owner of the bank.

Paul embarks on a journey to find meaning in his life after his mother abandoned him at the age of 5. Through reflections on his grandmother's life and the abuse she suffered, he will seek to understand who took care of her as a mother.

Amid an environmental disaster, a couple tries to protect the harmony of their relationship and their world. Can they create space in which to take a deep breath, to return to their former life?

After ten years in Vienna, Lotti Funke is returning to her old hometown of Bleicherode in the Thuringian province. There, however, she is not welcomed with open arms, which is not only due to the fact that she simply left her six-year-old daughter with her old mother.

Using selected images and text from the Marshall Archive at the Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, A New England Document reconstructs the impulse of two ethnographers' photographic endeavours in the Kalahari Desert, Namibia, from the reparative perspective of its (formerly) silenced stories. The filmmaker, a Black international student at Harvard, and their daughter, NYT-bestselling writer Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, give voice in fragmentary counterpoint upon the haunting sounds of archival ghosts — of future possibility arising from once known pasts.

Vismán and Alejandro live alone with their father, a veteran of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In the intimacy of their house and their day-to-day life, the two brothers participate in filming their portrait by imagining staged scenes that reveal the violence inherited from their national and family history. – Camille Kaiser

In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.

An actor with digestive problems faces the greatest challenge of his career: controlling his diarrhea in the middle of an important performance, while beings guide him through a revealing and comical personal metamorphosis.

A sparse room with a single power plug. The jewel: a copy machine. Leather, metal, fur. A place where you don‘t sit squarely at a table with flowers and a salt shaker, but where you explore all dimensions of the space. Unwielding forms. Between 1981 and 1996, the lesbian-run „Pelze Multimedia“ in West Berlin was a beloved and notorious venue for experimental art and music, for sex parties, bar nights and avant-garde fashion shows staged on a scaffolding. Interviews with three of the showrunners are intertwined with private archive materials. SUBJECT SPACES explores the memory of a subculture, the question of feminist heritage and an aesthetic practice that stood in stark contrast to large parts of the women‘s movement at the time.

"Lumen" (meaning "light" in Latin) is a sensory film shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.