First time filmmaker, Éanna Mac Cana, creates a unique experience by combining his personal recordings as an inpatient being treated for Burkitt's lymphoma with Dr Burkitt's astonishing archive from sub-Saharan Africa. The legacy of Dr Denis Burkitt's medical work holds significance today, affect...

Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.

In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of chi...

Anne is a theatre director. She has separated from her husband and is moving house. She is dull, without desires. She meets Ben, a helpful neighbour and jobless actor. He looks at her with passionate eyes; she never wants to tie herself to a man again. But when she decides to stage Zola's “L'asso...

The film is based on online communication between Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly, his friends, and family in Gaza.
Living in exile wasn't a choice, since 2014, I've been in a distance from family. A choice that I didn't make, but I ended up living it, surrounded by challenges. The ongoing s...

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 can Mohamed find his place in a country under siege, where there seems to be no foreseeabl...

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-century ruins is built around telephone conversations...

Liverpool Story is an intimate year-in-the-life documentary centred around Liverpool, its communities and culture, we find beauty in the ordinary and see life in the city from a fresh perspective. Mirroring the ebb and flow of the River Mersey, themes of home, belonging and memory unfold over the...

Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about...

Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the unfolding of 9/11 on her tv in Stockholm. In the following months and years she saw her fellow countryman, the diplomat Hans Blix, become a major player in the global crisis, as weapons inspector for the UN.

Now, in the 21st century of wars,...

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 colonisation.

The courtyard becomes the theater where the future ...

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 down to dig at a depth of more than 100 metres. His hope hangs on a rope ...

In a retirement home in a small village in the south of France, residents try to build a community. What ties can they still manage to forge in this anonymous environment, as they approach the last chapter of their lives?

-- Dir. Judith Longuet-Marx - 2023 - 26min - Belgium --

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When 86-year-old Rene buys flowers, he always thinks about what color his wife would have chosen if she were alive. Like most people in this film, he spent more time with this partner than without.

Through candid, revealing interviews, Echo of You presents a group of Danish men and women, all a...

Le Film de Mon Père is my first film. The one my father always dreamt I would make. And perhaps, that’s the issue.

One day he bought a video camera and started filming himself daily. His goal: to offer me this autobiographical footage in order for me to make my first film. The diary of a lonely ...

The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.

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A few months prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, five young women and men participate in a unique stage production that attempts to relate their war experiences to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. For each of them, the stage is a platform to express their grief and trauma through the f...

Authentic and raw, This day won't last is a diary film meditating on longing for future, love, freedom, opportunities, and community. Through personal home-made videos and photographs, the director reflects on what it means to be young and queer in Tunisia. It draws attention to the still existin...

THE LIFE OF SEAN DELEAR is orientated along the life of its protagonist´s posthumous estate. It starts with the story of a black boy finding his sexual identity in Simi Valley. He escapes `over the hill´ to Los Angeles to start a new life. The dream of becoming an artist nourishes his mind. Soon ...

Nathalie, a shepherdess in South of France, is learning how to kill her animals. The film follows the gestures of a breeder who loves and eats her sheep with care. She is questioning the ways of dying well for these beings who make us live. What does tenderness taste like?

-- Dir. Elsa Maury - 6...

Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout the 60s and 80s. As she investigates Neirud's contr...

Can anyone be a movie hero? Can the world be locked in one film frame? Director Paweł Łoziński is watching people from his balcony as they are passing by: sad, thoughtful, glued to their phones, young and old. Neighbours, random visitors or simply passers-by. The filmmaker accosts them, asks ques...

In 2018, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Janaina Nagata stumbles upon a 16mm footage acquired online. The unassuming footage captures scenes from a white family's trip to South Africa during the 1960s. The seemingly innocent images lead to an insatiable investigation. Through a meticulous desktop ...

There was once a place in Vienna where people could study and learn how to live together. Under the auspices of the City of Vienna, modules were developed in an EU-funded joint project to make it easier for refugees – but also newcomers in general – to find their way around the city. Everyday lif...

In the fields, we see them, stretched out in the grass or grazing peacefully. Large, placid beasts that we think we know because they are livestock. Lions, gorillas, bears have all our attention, but have we ever really looked at cows? Have we wondered what they do with their days? What do they d...