Cinematic Era: 2021 Vintage

A look back at some of legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond's best BBC moments, including performances of hits such as Sweet Caroline, Forever in Blue Jeans and Solitary Man.

The work deals with a set of interlocking stories about the relationship of men and women, and raises many issues such as the lack of understanding between husbands, marital rape and its impact, as well as the delay in the age of marriage.

An examination of the connection between relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experiences by Indigenous Australians - the two key drivers of incarceration.

A prostitute steals a billion won from her pimp and is found dead in the river. While his pimp seeks to recover the money, he enlists the help of a policeman. After suffering a car accident, this policeman stops at a mysterious retreat, which worships an incarnate goddess in the body of a child.

The last concert held by Japanese boy band Arashi on December 31, 2020 at Tokyo Dome, one day before the start of their indefinite hiatus. Includes live performances of songs from their final studio album of the same name.

Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.

Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi, shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society.

Awakening from a coma, Bobby falls in love with Inggrid, a nurse whose age is far apart from him. Disasters arise as they drift deeper and deeper into love. They were caught in a cunning scheme.

Multiplatinum recording artist MAX has been labeled a "Top pop-star to watch" by Billboard and was nominated for "Best New Pop Artist" at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. In this special concert event filmed at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, MAX puts on a spectacle performing his latest studio album "Colour Vision".

miwa's concert held at ZeppTokyo on March 20, 2021

Exploring the politics of race in America, the surprising history of its weaponization for political gain, and the Black Americans who are fighting back.

Myra Chang comes of age in a dysfunctional family business. When her abusive mother tries to claim her life, Myra comes face to face with a decision that will change the course of her life. She has to decide to leave everything she has ever known behind in search of her dreams.

Dwindle is a film based on the story of Sogo and Buta, two friends who hijack a car and venture into cabbing and how their lives take a drastic turn when their path runs into assassins who have just kidnapped the state governor.

It is time to get out of the closet and show the world your teeth. The director, who considers himself to be Mozart, has been tootling with his films in the festival circuit for years, waiting for a big breakthrough. For an inexplicable reason, the world has not recognised his talent. Still only Salieris have garnered the fame and the fortune. There is a simple conclusion. The world has not learned anything in 200 years and keeps repeating the same mistake.

A guilt-stricken Angela visits her parents for what at first seems to be a routine family dinner, only for a painful truth to bubble to the surface, descending the evening into a nightmare.

In post-pandemic Taipei, Tian and Jay meet for their annual fling—until a heart attack forces them to confront what they really mean to each other.

In an all too possible future, a Sikh wife and mother risks execution in the fight to be reunited with her family.

Mike Bruton is a clown with a drinking problem. Seriously: a real clown. Eager to pick up where he left off after a stint in rehab, Mike hops on his unicycle and takes off on an apology tour, starting with a visit to his childhood home in New Jersey and ending up in Brooklyn. Mike soon realizes that not everyone is ready to forgive him and his best bet at a life in recovery is to start small.

A documentary about the Italian singer Ben.

Yen Yun is in the school dragon dance team. Every day after school, he practices with his teammates, working on their secret performance. Just as they are about to succeed, they are confronted with a huge, unexpected challenge…

You can see a green screen, a popular placeholder. There is a woman talking to you about something. Please listen and pay attention. You won't regret it or yes maybe I don’t know.

She smells her fragrance, she sees her talent... The ancient love story of Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua. The plight of these two women is told as they fall in love due to the admiration for each other's stunning beauty and literary craft. Adapted from the Kunqu opera & story by Li Yu, "Fragrant Companion/Lianxiang Companion", this short film includes a parallel between the play and "reality." The ending has been altered from the original play.

Aldo has always felt like a being from another planet, stranded on Earth. His autism and long struggle to speak fluently alienated him from others. Now, he searches for meaning in the esoteric and for connection with people like himself.

Nima Yangzhen is a postman at the post office of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. She is a ordinary mother of a baby, but with professional skills and enthusiastic work attitude, Nima was recommended to participate in the selection of exemplary people in the autonomous prefecture. After winning she receives a job transfer order. She needs to leave her family temporarily to go to the remote Yunling Township to take over the job of the old post office director.

Yu-lan came to Taipei from southern Taiwan. She has got a successful career as a dancer. When her foster mother gets dementia, she has no choice but to retire and go back home. However, the trial and tribulation of her new life have reminded her of her childhood memories. During an argument with her mother’s foreign caretaker, the cause of her foster brother’s death and the secrets about her biological mother are gradually being revealed... As a woman of the advanced maternal age, Yu-lan has found herself unexpectedly pregnant with a baby. Following her heart, she has entered the circle of destiny. Departure means coming back, and her starting point is also her finish line. Is birth adjacent to or far away from death? Maybe at last, you’ll see that the shadow you met will be also the light to guide your life.

Working-class single mother Carol struggles with her defiant son and a fractured past. After witnessing a brutal attack and suspecting her son's involvement, she hides the truth. Wracked with guilt, she's left protecting a lie-and a possible murderer.

Based on the Sumatran folk tale "An Honest Man", this shadowlight theatrical performance follows Budi, an earnest-to-a-fault fisherman, as he unwittingly ensnares a magical hornbill. What follows will test his honesty and resolve, with a chance at wealth and royalty on the other side.

After six years of being ordered to go undercover in a gang, Xing Jiangfeng is tired of his undercover life of crisis and dreams of finding his true self. A conspiracy for power leads Xing Jiangfeng into a death trap, and his recovery becomes a moot point.

Song Ci is invited to the Southern Song capital - Lin'an - to investigate the murder allegedly committed by the Goddess of the Night.

Maria travels to the Mediterranean to help people who are stranded at sea. Marcel founds an escort service to protect women from “intrusive immigrants.” Petra takes in a traumatized refugee. And the asylum shelter director Gerald is put to the test by a resident.

A young woman, Srishti Bakshi embarks on a monumental journey, walking almost 4000km over 240 days, from Kanyakumari in the south, to Kashmir, in the North, along the way meeting and learning first hand about the experiences of many women from all corners of India. WOMB is a poignant and heart warming documentary exploring the social and political issues faced by women of today’s India. It is a unique testament to seemingly insurmountable challenges in these unprecedented times and the everyday sheroes who are battling to overcome.

The island is about to be submerged by the flood, but Jiao refuses to leave. She is still waiting for Guo, waiting for his promise of marrying her years ago. Jiao’s son, Xiong, has no choice but to come to bring her away from this drowning place. However, Jiao’s hopeless infatuation for Guo evokes Xiong’s memories of the old days...

A Black family in rural Vermont attempts to live a life of solitude and cope with the ghosts living on their property.

A babysitter's phone sex is interrupted when she notices something unusual on the baby monitor.

A married couple composed of two eccentric artists come to ridiculous odds during their 30th wedding anniversary in Paris, France.

Dinosaurs and humans evolve and live together throughout history. However, the annoying and invasive behavior of humans begins to annoy Rex, a peaceful dinosaur.

The hardest part for Oma and Dayo is not realizing they are in toxic relationshipts. With the help of Dr. Pat they are able to let go of their toxic past.

AV Supersunshine and Philomena Victor, married musicians from Wisconsin, approach a young filmmaker and ask for his help to tell their 'true' story: being abducted, experimented on, and taken off planet aboard a flying saucer. The couple send the filmmaker their home-made alien abduction film, and he sets out on a mission to either verify or discredit their experience. Unable to debunk the authenticity of the couple's story, the documentarian resorts to the use of psychological tactics in an attempt to make the couple turn their narratives against one another.

When a shut-in dies alone and returns as a housebound ghost, he finds himself at the mercy of a world that didn’t even notice he was gone.

Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part 2) is the 2nd film of the Krautrock Trilogy, and explores eminent Krautrock bands from the South of Germany. Part 2 focuses on bands from Munich, Wiesbaden, Ulm, and Heidelberg, and highlights a more recent band from Aachen.

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes the legendary Damon Albarn. He performs his new album live: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows. Setlist: "The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows", "The Cormorant", "Royal Morning Blue", "Lonely Press Play", "Go Back", "The Tower of Montevideo", "The Poison Tree", "Hong Kong", "Daft Wader", "Out of Time", "El Mañana", "Darkness to Light", "On Melancholy Hill", "Polaris", "Particles", "This Is a Low"

In Malmousque, a former fishermen's district in Marseille, new residents and bathers from all over the city mix. Virginie wanders the streets looking for her cat, while Elina is convinced that her husband has put spyware on her cell phone. The two friends go kayaking so they can talk to each other without the risk of being overheard.

Alice Cordes is to spend Christmas with her boyfriend Nicolas Huber's family in Upper Bavaria. Although the Hamburg chef no longer has parents herself, she initially reacts hesitantly to the invitation: a family celebration? But they haven't known each other that long. Unfortunately, their journey together comes to nothing: Nicolas is held up by work and has to join them. Alice only finds out about this at the train station in snowy Bavaria.

Claire Simon goes to Lussas, in France’s Ardèche, home to a vibrant community of documentarians. She films the creation of Tënk, an online platform for auteur documentaries. The initiative is a labour of love for the passionate and optimistic people behind it, but the process is long and arduous, as cultural projects often are. The filmmaker followed them for months, capturing their doubts and dilemmas: how do you manage everyday conflicts? Be accepted by a rural population that you aren’t part of? By the general public? Reconcile private life and professional calling? Reassure the mayor? Secure funding without making ethical compromises? A fascinating, bittersweet and insightful behind-the-scenes film. (Apolline Caron-Ottavi)

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda archival material turned on its head, evocative cinematography and an untold history of a country.

Over the serene and verdant landscape of Northern California, a man with an everlasting childlike spirit lived his last years in a cabin. A story of friendship and loneliness, George Carl Wenzlaff was a Navy veteran and postal service worker with unique artistic talents and an amazing past.

When Élodie goes to visit Lucien, her grandfather, now living in an old people's home, she asks him one specific question: why had he abused her, thirty-one years ago? Quand Élodie rend visite à Lucien, son grand-père, pensionnaire d'une maison de retraite, elle lui pose une question très précise : pourquoi l'a-t-il abusée, il y a trente et un ans ?

On a routine transatlantic 'Ghost Flight' between London and New Orleans, a deal to smuggle a mysterious cargo will have dire affects for the crew on board.

A fun and heartwarming story of women seeking friendship while working for a good cause inside a fictitious women’s civic group called T.O.N.T.A. Club. T.O.N.T.A. = The One N True Alliance.

In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to guarantee life without social and labor rights? What model of society do we want to live in? The film addresses the dismantling of the concept of social welfare and makes us reflect on the incompatibility of neoliberalism with a humanist project of society.

Dadaist poet, Russian and cosmopolitan artist, creator and publisher of some of the most beautiful books of the 20th century, Ilia Zdanevitch, aka Iliazd, is a little-known but major figure of modern art. Almost half a century after his death, Ilia, a young Russian agitator, sets out on his trail.

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key to decipher some of the unknown symbols and allusions contained in his films.

A group of Skaters band together to save their local Skateshop

A documentary film following the celebrated Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin over the last five years. Directed by Svetlana Cemin the film represents an intimate portrait of the artist and a deep reflection on the sculptor's journey to make his masterpiece, Psyche, a marble boat. This experimental documentary reflects the making process of Psyche from the embryonic stage in his studio in Brooklyn, through the finishing touches in China, and to its final destination in Cleveland, Ohio.

After the internet in his apartment goes down, a man attempts to upload his short film to a film festival as the deadline quickly approaches.

The new film by César González follows a maintenance employee at a printing house whose routine, almost as automatic as the movements of the company machines, is altered when she makes a decision that threatens both her job and her everyday life in the neighborhood.