Dir. Luca Lucchesi - 92mins - 2020 - Germany

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is the subject of great controversy in the village, ask...

Dir. Luca Lucchesi - 92mins - 2020 - Germany

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is the subject of great controversy in the village, ask...

Dir. Emmanuelle Antille - 2018 - Switzerland - Language: English, French - Subtitles: English

A wild and enchanting journey in the footsteps of cult singer Karen Dalton, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the'60s, with a breathtaking voice. The director, accompanied by two other women for...

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Dir. Luz Ruciello - 2017 - Argentina - Language: Spanish - Subtitles available in: English, French

How do we measure our passion? A Concrete Cinema draws close to the intangible spell that is implied by the need to somehow belong to the cinema, to give someth...

Dir. Giovanna Giovanini & Rodrigo Boecker - 85min - 2018 - Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles available in: English, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese (CC)

Susana Schnarndorf is a professional Brazilian swimmer and mother of three, whose world comes crashing down when diagnosed with Multiple Sy...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann - 1999 - Austria

An essay film about Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s attempts to vanish from the picture. A film about Orientalism and of a woman on the road. Shot in Egypt, the film features a text written by the filmmaker and music from the Kronos-Quartet. The camera slips ...

-- Dir. Jérémie Battaglia - 84min - 2024 - Canada, France --

In the south of France, in the heart of the Camargue, an ancient and little-known tradition takes place. In the region’s arenas, young men dressed in white confront bulls in a dangerous and impressive face-off. Much more than a traditi...

Dir. Márcio Laranjeira - 2015 - Portugal - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles available in: English, Spanish

Mariana is a young woman looking to fulfil the dream she was once committed with when she left her parents' house to live with Alex, in Lisbon. When he leaves to New York, she cannot bear ...

-- Dir. Boubacar Sangaré - 83min - 2023 - Burkina Faso, Benin, France --

Rasmané, alias Bolo, 16, is a teenage gold miner at the Bantara site in Burkina Faso. Like all teenagers of his age, he is playful and dreamy.

His daily routine is organised around cooking, working in the gallery and going...

Dir. Faustine Cros - 66min, 2022, France, Belgium

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a moth...

Dir. Wenqian Zhang - 123min - 2022 - China

A family of three generations lives in a 120-square-meter home. The division of the space articulates five people’s daily lives, which also throws them into different worlds. They talked about the past and probed for a future. Yet, a crack keeps growing...

DIR. GUIDO HENDRIKX - 64MIN - 2021 - NETHERLANDS

An enigmatic entity roams the Dutch hinterlands, silently pointing a camera at all that it encounters. Soon it finds itself standing in front of a doorway. Met with an uninvited, inscrutable camera operator, how will the region’s inhabitants respo...

Dir. Helena Třestíková - 102min - 2017 - Czech Republic

In 35 years of one couple's shared life, a lot of things happen: from the moments of an absolute harmony to the dramatic falls. For the most of the time, the couple cares for common daily life issues and joys that come together with raising...

-- Dir. Ivan Sautkin - 86min 2024 - Ukraine, Lithuania, UK --

A cinéma vérité examination of the most vulnerable people on the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the brave volunteers risking everything to evacuate them to safety. The film weaves together two parallel narratives: one foll...

Dir. José Joffily - 86min - 2022 - Brazil

Brazilian ambassador José Bustani, the first director of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, tried to avoid the destruction of Iraq, but was forced out under pressure from the USA in their march to war. Ousted from his position, he ...

Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter - 2011 - Austria - Subtitles in English

A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though it’s hyper alert at the same time, an “Abendland” that, often somewhat self-obsessively, sees itself as the crown of human civilisation, while ...

Dir. Ekta Mittal - 2018 - India - Languages: Hindi, Punjabi - Subtitles: English

In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist. They meet each other with impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing thei...

Dir. Lucas Vernier - 94min - 2020 - France

Between 2009 and 2011, I filmed in Syria. Reconnecting the threads of a family memory that goes back to the French Mandate, I connect with families in Palmyra. Then came the Revolution, then the violent repression of the regime which plunged the country...

-- Dir. Chloé Aïcha Boro - 83min - 2023 - Burkina Faso, France --

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European...

-- Dir. Chloé Aïcha Boro - 83min - 2023 - Burkina Faso, France --

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European...

Dir. Jennifer Rainsford - 77min - 2022 - Sweden

With the 2011 Tsunami as a backdrop, 'All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars' is a staggering odyssey told as an essay on grief, and on how humans and nature rebuild after trauma. It moves from the shores of Japan where Sachiko...

-- Dir. Floriane Devigne - 77min - 2023 - France --

In so-called "peripheral" France, where public services are disappearing or being dematerialised according to a purely utilitarian logic, I use the disappearance of the public telephone as a symbol. This road-movie in search of these twentieth-...

Dir. Cláudia Varejão - 2016 - Portugal - In Japanese - Subtitles available in: English, German, Italian, Spanish.

A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air in both lungs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid fro...

-- Dir. Mohamed Jabaly - 80min - 2016 - Occupied Palestinian Territory, Norway, Israel --

Ambulance is a raw, first-person account of the war in July 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City joins an ambulance crew as the war approaches. What is it like to live under constant threat? How...