Cinematic Era: 2016 Vintage

The (mis) adventures of a group of hipster friends working at T&A Networks, a production company that produces ridiculous reality TV shows.

In 2007, Beau attempted to paddle 4000kms from one side of Africa to the other. Starting in Mozambique, he continued along the Southern African coast, allowing five months to complete the voyage. Battling surf, deep sea swell, and too many days waiting for the wind, Beau only completed 2000kms of the original plan.

The 16-minute colour film observes Hockney smoking five cigarettes and thinking about painting in his Los Angeles studio, surrounded by a series of portrait paintings that featured in his 2016 exhibition at the RA (82 Portraits and 1 Still-life)

Translator Lena Feldhusen travels to Copenhagen to supposedly research the Danish writer Karen Blixen. However, there is another reason behind the trip: the search for her father Carl, whom she last saw in her early childhood. During the trip, she meets the charming Mads, who also turns out to be a Blixen expert and runs the museum of the same name. Her trip becomes a confrontation with herself, old family conflicts and the chance of a new love.

After a self-destructive lifestyle nearly kills her, tormented young Anne learns to open up and let go of her traumatic past through a new found passion for boxing.

To start again, one has to destroy.

For the tenth anniversary of W's November art issue, supermodels Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are inducted into the futuristic world of Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin. The resulting project, commissioned for W and titled "placebo pets," features the two models as ultra-domesticated, ultra-friendly humanoid creatures and performance artist and frequent Fitch and Trecartin collaborator Jesse Hoffman as their extraterrestrial "owner."

When a chicken is kidnapped by two thieves, a lively adventure full of humor and with a surprising twist begin.

Aiman, who deals with never-ending problems starts to wonder the judgment given by God which brings him to stuck in another dimension leading him being fully alone until he starts meeting a mysterious woman named Maya.

A film about transgender women.

Modern take on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Housewife Jingru suddenly found that people in her apartment were dying one after another! And her husband also had an abnormal phenomenon, and finally, her husband died strangely... Jingru was determined to find out, she pushed open the doors of the apartment... glutton... erotic maniac ...violent people...enjoying dark activities in those doors...but they don't need to take any responsibility because they're just playing games! An absolute virtual reality game "Micro Paradise"! The side effect of this game is that players can't tell the difference between virtual and real! In the end, she was eroded by her own desires and happily committed suicide to reach the end of the game. Slowly, Jingru also got involved in the game, and just when she was trapped, a mysterious boy Gong Le appeared to rescue...they together Challenge the creator of the game, Zino, but can they defeat the perverted ultimate boss and escape from Micro Paradise...

A scientist tries to save the life of a beluga bush calf stranded on the beach of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

Just an honest conversation.

Spark (2016) Oscar, a young Venezuelan student, sparks a social media movement using an innovative cell phone application to circumvent the censorship in his country.

A woman survives being run over by a man and makes a connection to him.

Recounts the impact of migrants on the African Methodist Episcopal church. Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME, the nation’s oldest African-American church, served as a local community partner, as well as Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, SC, the site of the 2015 mass shooting.

The quiet, level-headed, slightly pedantic delicatessen owner Johannes Lemann and the eternally vagabond, quick-tempered Bert Michilinski couldn't be more different. But they have more in common than they admit: They both dislike themselves and their lives. One has built a wall around himself, the other is constantly running away from himself.

In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.

Filmmaker Rob McCallum hits the road with his brother Chris Byford in search of their Mom who's been missing for almost 25 years.

A mad, comic caper where the legendary Bad Man Gulshan Grover relaunches himself in the film industry, but this time as a hero! With celebrity cameos, hilarious delusional situations with the ‘young hero’ Gulshan Grover, Bad Man explores the funny side of Bollywood.

This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York's contemporary art landscape from the 1970s until the early 2000s, highlights her struggle to balance personal and family ambition with artistic drive in a male-dominated art world. It also addresses her later battle with cancer, at the peak of her career.

Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.

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Shady interests, scores, revenge - away from the hustle and bustle of the city you will find its brutal finale in the quiet heart of a pine forest. Each of the heroes of this bloody confrontation soon discovers his place in the food chain.

A short film about life and death.

Spiros is one of the many new migrants from Greece who seek a better life in Australia. But as he soon realizes, new dreams come at a great cost.

Moments after a bloodcurdling scream disrupts Nick's normally peaceful neighborhood, a frantic knocking at his door triggers events that unknowingly alter his fate forever.

After 19 years without seeing each other, two former “guerrilleros” reunite to sign their divorce papers. As they catch up with their lives and revisit their shared romantic and political past, they unveil intimate secrets to finally discover who they truly are and how much their country and convictions still hurt them.

This is the story of a passionate man connected with the electronic life and whose language was misunderstood into the real world. Upon the game with the remote control of the TV, a screen travel emerges into his mind. He visualizes the transformation of his body into light and energy and his own mind out of him... Inside a world unknown to him, our protagonist immerses into a magnified space of visual sensations, colors and forms. A rhythmic and temporal cadence transport him elsewhere amplifying his own conscience and tearing down prejudices. A widespread field of sounds shows his own memories in the form of sounds and confronts him with an imaginary territory that constructs and deconstructs part of the notion of the world. showing stimuli (even closing his eyes) that increases your organic palpitations, making your adrenaline flowing and accelerated with greater intensity.

Favourites from the Kid's Baking Championship return to the kitchen to take on two spooky challenges.

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?

When Ty makes the biggest mistake of his life, will it be possible to fix it? Or will he be forced to finally accepted the consequences of his action?

A scientific search by Mark Evans

The comic innovator delivers a surreal set blending experimental songs, jokes about grits, guns and drugs, and other improvised comedy adventures.

Documentary about a group of transgender teens and young adults struggling to find the resources, safety, and confidence to express their gender identity.

With the news of his passing flooding newspaper headlines, and millions of fans paying tribute to him on social media, David Bowie's departure has left a mark on many all over the world. Known as a musical chameleon, Bowie was able to flow and adapt his music and style to current fashion and trends. Prior to his breakthrough in 1972, he recorded a proto-metal record and a pop/rock album, eventually redefining glam rock with his ambiguously sexy Ziggy Stardust persona. Ziggy made Bowie an international star, yet he wasn't content with gleaming mere glitter rock. Each one of his phases in the '70s sparked a number of subgenres, including punk, new wave, goth rock, the new romantics, and electronica. Few rock heroes ever had such lasting impact. With just two days after his 69th birthday and the uncannily timed release of his most poignant album ‘Blackstar’, he left his fans with a parting gift that will solidify his already indelible mark in music history.

A short film about child abuse.

Soundgarden recorded live at The Paramount Theater in Seattle, WA, in 1991. Released as part of the 25th Anniversary of their seminal Badmotorfinger LP.

Two dancers are forced to confront their feelings for each other on the eve of a ballet competition.

A plane from Andaman to Chennai crashes and a pregnant lady who survives the fall, dies after delivering a baby. The child raised by Andaman native, after completing school, studies about soil. With this research, he invents a machine that can give important info about whatever soil it tests. The rest of story reveals, how the machine affects his life!

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

“Silenced” is a film about the state of free speech in America.

Emma Mayer works as a presenter for a radio station. In her show 'Emma after midnight', she listens to the concerns of callers. She discovers that Katharina Holl, who is about to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter during the construction of an indoor swimming pool, is suicidal. Since the accident, she has been called Mrs. Hell by the press and while she, as the main defendant, has to shoulder all the blame, accomplices such as Lord Mayor Klaus Quade and the owner of the construction company, Mark Wahrendorf, remain on the outside. Emma has little time to deal with Katharina's problem and convince her that there is a point in continuing to live.

Adaptation from Enrique A. Laguerre's novel "La llamarada". It depicts the struggles of Puerto Rican peons in the sugar cane fields during the 1930's.

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.

In a series of life events, a group of young adults expressed their love, desires, and secrets in ways they didn't imagine they could.

Literary magazine editor mentally cheats on his young lover with his own wife, a university professor of Maths. He still feels the need in her fine and concise brain and their intellectually rich and direct discussions. After having a crash on the young girl he rejoins his wife. The constant irony helps them find a compromise solution to what has happened. But the real challenge is deeper, than usual crisis of the middle age and sexual dissatisfaction. The small family is broken apart together with the society.

The Bug is about one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles on the planet: The Volkswagen Beetle. From its dark past in pre-WWII Germany to the Summer of Love, this car captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world. This film explores not only the history of this automotive icon, but also the intense emotional connection it has with its owners past and present... including Ewan McGregor and his experience with his first VW Bug as a sixteen year old.

A romantic comedy that brings together three interrelated tales of gay men seeking family, love and sex during the holiday season.

In 1976, the Tate Gallery exhibited an experimental artwork that became a national sensation - Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII, or, to its detractors, 120 bricks laid on the floor. This documentary explores the origins of Andre's work and the extraordinary fallout from its exhibition.