Cinematic Era: 2021 Vintage

Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.

Oleksiy is an ordinary mining worker who loses a close friend in a mine accident. He is plagued by remorse and guilt. One day, during a celebration, the miners take a photo together, the camera flash lights up Oleksiy's eyes, and when he opens them, he finds himself in the past. The miner begins to travel through time and interfere in events with the intention of changing the course of history.

Care is the feature length adaptation of Klein's ICA commissioned musical from 2018, and is an autobiography, musical, animation and diary entry that explores the social care system, friendship and angst through the eyes of Abike (played by Klein) who's been moved from foster home to foster home and what happens when her sister goes missing. It is an ambitious feature film debut which is written, directed, edited and scored by Klein. Filmed throughout the Spring of 2021, the film features, amongst others, an ensemble of street casted kids as well as the musicians Mica Levi & Kwake Bass, grime MCs Musti & Kibo and the poet and scholar Fred Moten, who plays Abike's father. Illustrations are by Evie O'Connor.

Gaby Jones, fashion photographer, takes a holiday retreat against her desire by advise of her friend. She will then find that there's more behind a photo when she meets wildlife photographer Sean.

'2055' has been living for 40 years in an institution that allows him to live in isolation by his own will. He can open the door to the sunlight voluntarily. One day he is surprised by a repairman on the other side of the glass, he comes to check the phones on the wall. It comes to a conversation. After 40 years of isolation, how does '2055' react to a filtered human voice? Does he still have feelings when he looks someone in the eye?

This is the fifth in a series of unprecedented Yose-style ghost story performances presented by Maruyama-cho Ghost Story Club Director Makoto Kitano and curator Kazuya Nishiura, who loves ghost stories with all his heart !

After decades of growth and ostentation, when every excess was allowed, the fashion industry is currently at a turning point, caught up in the political issues that are reshaping our times: climate change and sustainable development, cultural representation and appropriation, equality, gender issues... Brands and creators are now subject to increasingly sharp public scrutiny. How is the fashion industry facing these challenges and responding to this new paradigm? Based as it is on the concept of planned obsolescence, can fashion survive?

She's won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard's Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film - all without moving her lips. This year, Nina Conti will create a new show each night by plucking inspiration from the audience. Strap into the mask as Nina gets in your face. With the help of Monkey and a bag of tricks, truly anything can happen in this unmissable improvised adventure of hilarious witchery.

Emma is an aspiring influencer, youtuber, instagrammer, 22-year-old social media sensation. She manages to hit 1 million followers. On the day of the celebration, she learns through social media that a private video of herself and her ex having intercourse is leaked online. Her comeback will be live soon…

Maya, a gynecologist from Moscow, trains the staff at a hospital in a small settlement in the Northern Caucasus. She notices barbaric performances of female circumcision carried out behind her back.

A group of actors and actresses rehearse play virtually and look for solutions to get around the fact that they cannot meet. Confined at home, they use their own family members on stage. The piece chosen is ÁLBUM DE FAMÍLIA, by Nelson Rodrigues, an attempt to debate the idea of a traditional Brazilian family.

A troubled artist with a dark past attempts to make peace with her dying mother while investigating the mysterious death of her teenage sister.

A feature-length documentary film-in-progress chronicling the birth and development of LGBTQ comics through the eyes of several of its pioneers. The film was inspired by the Lambda award-winning book of the same name, and dives deeper into the personal stories at the heart of this unique underground artistic scene. Featuring Alison Bechdel (Fun Home), the recently departed Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comix), and others, this film aims to show how DIY queer cartoonists have represented, poked fun at, and celebrated LGBTQ lives and experiences in challenging, humorous, and profound ways.

The film is based on the expedition of mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara to K2 in Pakistan, which cost him his life in 2021 at the age of 45. The film opens with him passing the bottleneck with his companions, successfully climbing it, and then returning when he is caught in an avalanche or storm and ultimately loses his life. As his life fades from memory, the film shifts to flashbacks as he recalls the events of his life.

A narrative centered around a young writer called Sage, her partner Omar, and her longtime friend Annie, as Sage battles with persistent writer’s block that ends up impacting her relationship and pulling at the thread of her well-buried emotional baggage.

Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.

Ivan lives in Yekaterinburg, writes bold poems, loves sandwiches with squash caviar and his fiancee Dasha. The wedding was decided to be played in Sochi, where Vanina's beloved grandfather lives, who is seriously ill. But after a bold publication in social networks, Ivan, instead of flying to his wedding, is forced to stay at home with an electronic bracelet on his leg. In order for the planned celebration to take place, Ivan will have to take an unexpected step.

Ho Bor, a former boxing champion is trying to regain his own place as a contender.

“Working-class Latino hood, crossed with crazy artist, crossed with left-wing radical,” so the legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez is described in this intimate portrait by his wife, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Susan Stern.

Life couldn’t be better for entrepreneur and British Mod, Danny. That is until he’s introduced to Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs run.

In this film, following in the footsteps of Patrick Edlinger, Christian and Olivier build the legendary roof of La Piade (Toulon, France) solo in deep water. Up to 18 m high, the two climbers are keen to work the route without a rope. The Piade site appears in the first minutes of the film “La Vie Au Bout Des Doigts” by Jean-Paul Janssen. At a height of 15m, after several summers of work, Olivier is one of the rare local climbers to have completed this route. Today, it is Christian who is taking on this same challenge. The two climbers are keen to work it without the help of a rope. After each fall, they must start the route from the beginning. Guided by his elder, the film recounts Christian's progression and success on the path. It is also the story of their friendship and the joy they share together, suspended, “at their fingertips”. Determined, Christian works the route in summer, as in winter, despite the sometimes unpredictable conditions.

Deputy captain of the anti-narcotics brigade Tang Lang and the female special police captainYue Xiaofeng are two public security police who are working together on the front line of life and death.

An extension of punk and the fury of the 70s, Grunge was built on the impossibility of living in this world without transforming it. On a categorical refusal to collaborate and the need to create your own rules. The subculture as a refuge. Grunge was a secret movement, a piracy that should never have become popular. A bubble whose epilogue was played out in 3 years, between 1991 and 1994. What happened to this rage?

A 12-year-old boy leaves his grandmother and goes to work the land with the men. While working, they are disturbed by the voices of intruders. They send the boy to investigate, and he discovers that the old woman is summoning the spirits of the dead in the forest.

The CEO of Sinaloa takes an objective, in-depth, and original approach to the story of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the head of a violent, criminal drug empire known as the Sinaloa Cartel. We tell the story through a business lens, breaking down the business models used by the Sinaloa Cartel to become one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet. Our film will focus on cartel strategies in terms of distribution, accounting, branding, mergers and acquisitions, human resources, termination, and of course - product. But we will never lose sight of the terrible violence this organization employed to reach its success.

Zhao Dachuang, a film worker with a dream of making films, received an invitation from a mysterious investor to be a producer for a film. Zhao is overjoyed and immediately puts together a messy film crew. But after the film starts, the prop warehouse is burgled in the middle of the night and Zhao finds out that the thief is the female lead Xiao Jing. She tells Zhao that the real purpose of the mysterious capitalist is to use the filming as a pretext to transport the three artifacts stolen from the museum, while she infiltrates the set to track down the culprit and recover the artifacts. A simple filming turns into a game of cat and mouse. Zhao Dachuang and Xiao Jing team up to fight with the prop master.

Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South.

Housewitch (2014) and Housewitch 2 (2021) combined into one short, using some alternate shots and music, and converted to black & white.

There is a religious congregation founded by Saint Igneous, a saint and martyr who is believed to have been burned alive for spreading the faith. Several centuries later, a young monk prepares to be part of the order and thus, redeem his sins of the past. In the ritual ceremony he realizes that the sacrifice will be greater than he expected. Between prayers and agony, the young monk without waiting obtains what he wanted: redemption by emulating Saint Igneous.

Magical girl Asya used magic to help her friend with her mental health issues but made it worse. Now, bringing her friend back going to be as easy as stopping сlimate сhange.

The documentary on Yamazaki Hiroaki, the student died in the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967.

Hiraeth is a heart-breaking film that explores one woman's grief at the edge of the solar system. Amber Jones, a British astronaut on the first manned mission to Europa. She's a controversial choice with a checkered background.

Four close sisters have only one idea in mind: to do it. As their feminine bodies bloom, they slowly become more and more aware of their seductive power and above all they become painfully aware of their universal solitude.

Inspired by an idea from Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, director Radu Jude silently flips through satirical lithographs by 19th-century French artist Honoré-Victorin Daumier. Soon, the caricatures’ original texts are read out. Finally, the caricatures are used as commentary for actual news.

Xie Guangkun is transformed into Yang Erzheng, a poor and unruly villager in Liaoxi Township. He is recognized as the village's "bad guy", having lost his wife at an early age and raised his daughter alone

Short story from Renaissance period dedicated to fulfillment of duty, friendship and passing the heritable patrimony on.

Veysel's mind is struck with a question. "What would be his one wish if a genie appeared?". He thinks for a while. When he makes up his mind, he visits Leyla to ask her permission before making his wish.

A young Muslim finds himself succumb to the world of gambling. As his addiction starts to run deeper, it begins to threaten everything that has ever mattered to him.

Barkha—a young smalltown woman—tries to make it as a dancer in Mumbai, but pays a heavy price for the freedom offered by the big city to experiment with her own sexuality.

A man finds himself being stalked by a relentless killer, in a deadly game where humans are hunted for sport.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nostalgic memories and a dark presence, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her...

BERTHA LUTZ: WOMEN AND THE U.N. CHARTER reveals the important and unknown role of a Brazilian biologist and feminist in ensuring that gender issues were addressed at the basis of the United Nations.

A prospector in the year 2047 must rescue a girl enslaved by a mutant race of gold-injecting vampires.

After a bad breakup, Wonderful Woman and Superbman, must work together with the super crew to prevent world domination by an invincible super villain from the 5th dimension named Bob. Shot in 1998, this superhero parody stars Lisa Guerrero as Wonderful Woman, Ric Borelli as Superbman and Kevin Glikmann as Bob. Siskel and Ebert would have said, it's so campy the marshmallows cook themselves.

Joey works as a waiter for a hedonistic community of summer holiday makers in a small Mediterranean paradise. It is unclear if their exaggerated behaviors are due to the fact that the summer is coming to an end or if its just the last of their summers.

Yuri's recipe book is stolen by thieves infiltrating her apartment while she preparing breakfast for her boyfriend on their anniversary.

When being young and hood-rich is no longer a priority, Renz turns his focus to something physically and mentally finer. But when walls and barriers begin to break, he realizes he has to choose between love and loyalty.

The story centers around a homeless man struggling with his addiction which brings him to desperate measures to satisfy his compulsion.

A desperate heroin addict owes money to his violent dealer and decides to sell certain of his male body parts to a cult to get the money. Horror is not always being chased by monsters , but sometimes the decision we make ourselves

A medical student forges his qualifications to pass as a doctor and must endure the lethal consequences that threaten to ruin the greatest moment of his life.

Cast and crew peel back the curtain on all the thrilling secrets behind the monstrous tot’s first standalone feature from the Demonic Toys franchise.

The extraordinary, complex, nuanced, restless, and rebellious personality of Walter Bonatti is recounted in a docufiction that traces the life of the greatest mountaineer of all time, without neglecting his overwhelming love story with movie star Rossana Podestà.

Four artists in the Bay Area find their lives unexpectedly intertwined — with each other’s and with the life of a black queer feminist writer from the 1960s — in this story that challenges our definitions of love, family and what it means to create.

Witness and explore a whole range of emotions and desires in this series of stories about the lesbian experience. From rediscovering a lost parent in Israel, coming of age in rural Appalachia, finding love in friendship through meditation and imagination, to fending off the competition in a boot-making contest in New Mexico - what Upon Her Lips proves is that variety is the spice of life.

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are about to turn fifty. They have no children. From a very young age they have lived apart from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, now retired. One summer they all meet up on the cruise ship 'Fantasía'. On the high seas time seems to have stopped, but beyond the horizon reality continues to forge its way ahead tirelessly.

Straddling two continents, the pearl of the Bosphorus is home to little-known wildlife. Despite pollution and the presence of countless boats on the river, various species of dolphins live in the strait. Wild boars swimming away from the rapid urbanization are sometimes spotted there. Every year, tens of thousands of migratory birds such as storks, buzzards, and short-toed eagles also fly over Istanbul. On the outskirts of the city, a new animal species, a cross between a wolf and a stray dog, is spreading.

A young father reluctantly enters back into the dating scene with the help of his daughter six years after the untimely passing of his wife.