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Part science fiction, part homage to film history, this short black-and-white film fuses images of the moon with archival footage of King Mohammed V of Morocco’s face. All this swirling imagery is set to an eerie soundtrack that takes the viewer on a surreal journey. (Heure Exquise)
In a deserted city, life is slowly making itself felt again. Where there once was civilization, now bulky plants grow like in time lapse. A reflection on the reconquest of nature in stop-motion.
The story of Sebastián, a young Salvadoran who returns to his country after spending 5 years in Spain. His parents, Jose and Rita, are Spaniards who have lived in El Salvador for 30 years. Sebastián's return unleashes a series of family conflicts during his father's birthday celebration in which his cousins Ray and Sergio, his best friend Sofia and his sister Nicole are also invited. We learn the secrets of each guest, and José's homophobia causes enormous tension with Sebastián, his only son who is gay.
History as a social science, as a literary genre, as a political campaign, as a collective writing, as a pantheon, as a prison, as a myth.
"Entre Vientres" is a documentary that is born in the bowels of a woman. Through her approach to ancestral ceremonial practices, we accompany her in the search for her inner voice, thus visually emerging a ritualized space-time in which she wonders how to experience in the everyday the relationship that exists between ritual and the sacred, her uterus and the cosmos, between belief and creation.
Roland, a florist, finally wants to make another film, this time a musical film. He has already composed the songs for it. His husband Marcus, his best friend Claudia and the couple Lars and Nina, who are friends, will also be involved in the film. The movie premiere is to take place on Roland's 50th birthday. However, a cameraman is still missing. The shrewd TV producer Torsten Norola makes the an unbeatable offer: Roland will be provided with a cameraman if the station is allowed to accompany the entire shooting for a new docu-soap format. Shortly after filming begins, the first small obstacles get in Roland's way: Claudia is still in love with Roland; an argument with his husband Marcus; Lars falls in love with Roland; Nina wants out; and then a murder. All of a sudden, the film doesn't seem to be finished after all. But Roland can't possibly pay the penalty of 100.000€ to the broadcaster.
Ahmed, originally from Somalia, was born into violence, with civil war ravaging his country. He is now a refugee desperate to improve his life, and that of his family.
Below every surface is another world with its own rules, rulers and inhabitants all looking to find their way and to understand.
Quitting time it may be, but the commute home tonight has turned the surreal up to 11…or 12!
In this universal, moving fable, a parent and child forced into exile embark on an odyssey that leaves them changed forever.
In Belgium, the law allows lesbian couples to have children using assisted reproduction with anonymous sperm donation. The director wonders: Could she have a viable family if the next person she meets is a woman? Because for her, a family is a father, a mother and children. She therefore sets out to meet members of these new homoparental families and the actors who have contributed to their emergence: she revisits their stories, questions herself, reconsiders their pitfalls, tries to heal certain wounds, and pushes her reflection a little further.
A journey through the high plateau of Bolivia and Peru, drastically affected by both formal and informal mining. This is causing the pollution of rivers and harming the people who live along their banks, ultimately leading to the slow death of Lake Titicaca. Furthermore, there are dramatic consequences: social conflicts, human trafficking, and the use of forced labor in the mines. Comparatively, one can observe the social conflicts in the mines of Germany.
Aritz and Sonia are a happily united couple living a Saturday like any other, although their placid weekend will be interrupted by an unexpected visit...a bathrobe seller. But...is he really a bathrobe seller? A thriller full of humor that will not leave you indifferent.
A young college student studies hard at the last minute for an important exam, turning up late in result, once sat down at her desk, she falls asleep immediately and time stops, now she wonders the halls feeling an unfamiliar presense.
Recent Super 8 films selected for Media City by Helga Fanderl, including a short tribute to Peter Hutton. Der Augenblick ist mein is borrowed from a poem by Andreas Gryphius. Karussell (Carousel), Wasserpflanzen (Water Plants), Blätter auf dem Glasdach (Leaves on a Glass Roof), Gespiegelt (Mirrored), Blütenbaum (Blossom Tree), Imkerschule (Beekeeping School), Pleinair Fotos (Plein-air Photos), Mimosen im Wind (Mimosa in the Wind), Für P. (For P.)
Reflection on the discrimination and repression suffered by non-heterosexual people during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. A documentary look at resistance and survival, told through people who testify to what they lived through in those years.
BIG EARTH follows on from the story of HOTEL CALIFORNIA, takes up the theme of solidarity and tells how young people come together, dance, make music, fall in love and break up again. It tells of temptation, dreams, power and powerlessness, allows different languages to have their say, different cultures to appear and finally opens the stage for the unique big show, where everyone finds each other again, united under the globe.
Mr. Succhio is a character which lives through some events, encounters problems and tries to find solutions. He and the world around him are involved in multiple stories.
Prey to his demons and alone in a hostile world, the Man in Blue has only one idea in mind: to find plastic materials, the essential ingredient to concocting a strange elixir.
In rural France, an automated farm runs without the presence of humans.
Abandon Fear is set during a great war and shows what the world has turned into. In this new world there is a hooded character who likes to test for fear to survive. He goes by the name of Janice with his noble companion Jackie and group. He will only test those who pick up his gas mask.
For this project, Bak went to northern Morocco to meet women working as shrimp peelers for a Dutch company. The shrimp are fished in the Netherlands, transported in refrigerated trucks to be prepared in Tetouan and then sent back to their starting point for marketing. "Boussa from the Netherlands" shows the women, a source of cheap labour for the multinationals, paid on a piecework basis, carrying out their activity in deplorable conditions, without any social protection.
In a pretty Cotswold village, a mystery has been puzzling residents for decades. Following the death of local Boy Scout Karl Smith in 1947, mysterious gifts and messages began appearing on his grave in Prestbury. Despite his sister Ann Kear's best efforts, the identity of the visitor has never been revealed. Journalist Camila Ruz joins Ann on her quest to track down the stranger who has been visiting her brother's grave for up to 70 years.
Vicente, trapped in the monotony of his daily existence, faces a radical change in his life after receiving an enigmatic visit one night while he is absorbed in watching television.
Virginia lives surrounded by vinyl babies that she assembles, paints, dresses and combs herself, all the artisanal processes that are part of the creation of these realistic dolls explore the representation of reality and anatomy through the artifice and simulacrum around play and the idea of recreation that accompanies her collecting.
A woman creates collages with the words she identifies in the voices of her mother that she hears in her head. She struggles to make sense of them.
An enthusiastic scientist explains the Fermi Paradox and the theories that surround its interesting argument. But as we start to learn more about the theory, there is a gradual realization that all is not as it seems.
An old woman sits by her window, knitting. I always knew her this way, agile and wise to the sound of her needles clicking. I have only one reel of 13 minutes to film her, I would like her to talk to me about time that passes before her eyes And of death that approaches. She carefully tries to respond to this difficult question while the reel unwinds, irrevocably.
Inspired by Láadan, the constructed ‘women’s language’, developed by Suzette Haden Elgin in her sci- fi trilogy ‘Native Tongue’ (1984-94).
Frustrated at the lack of representation of domestic abuse and rape within queer male relationships, I made an experimental diary film recounting my own experiences from the POV of my abuser and the people in my life at the time.