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...

It’s summer on a leisure park in the Paris suburbs. A land of adventures, flirting and transgression for some, a place to hide out or take a break for others. With its beach and its hidden nooks and crannies, it’s like a childhood kingdom waiting to be explored, resonating with the turmoil of tod...

What's left when you have the courage, or the imprudence, to give up a life all mapped out, punctuated by the passing of time? Sisko, Armelle, Cécilia and Gibbo use precarious work in intensive agriculture as a way of surviving in the ruins of capitalism, and anxiety as the driving force behind ...

It's the end of the academic year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Between two TikTok videos and their science lessons, best friends Linda and Irina confide in each other about their families and their future. But Linda is going to have to move in the coming year. What will remain of their frie...

In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades. The documentary combines these audio tracks with propaganda films of the time.

-- Dir. João Pedro Bim - 66min - 2023 - Brazil...

$1,650 for a bullet? The day mass shooting survivor Carli turns to the murderabilia market to make ends meet, she sets out on a unique path to recovery...

Somewhere in Colorado, mass shooting survivor Carli hustles to pay for her piling medical bills. A few years passed since the Batman movie ma...

How to create a world of your own? Push the limits of your imagination?

The Wonder Way is an exploration in search of extraordinary territories, terrestrial or celestial paradises, intriguing and uncharted. A journey out of time, seeking encounters with those who imagine other worlds within this...

Innes spends another bleak winter in the Scottish Highlands, relentlessly killing deer. Over the past twenty years he has planted over a million trees, working towards a 200-yearlong vision. But he knows this landscape needs death if life is ever to return – and that he needs to play the role of ...

At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth, in outer space, and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied in the name of evolutionary research. Archive of the Future captures the aesthetic appeal of the natural-history collection and i...

In 1934, the 'New State' took to the world stage with the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition. There, the Portuguese Empire displayed the ultimate symbol of its virility in Rosinha, a native of what was then Portuguese Guinea. ROSINHA AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS questions the idea of Portugal's so-called "...

Vista Mare is a poetic and surrealist documentary revealing the hidden labour behind ‘a holiday in the sun’ on Italy’s Northern Adriatic Coastal resorts. Shot over an entire working season (Feb to Oct), it takes viewers on a journey through an artificial landscape built to amuse vacationers. Vist...

The film narrates the story of three women who are connected to each other through the invisible string of trauma and isolation. In the absence of motion, the spectator deep dives into a manic silence, into the expansive loneliness of the trauma and alienation. The images investigate the entire t...

Standing in front of the open window, a soft breeze playing through the curtains, an elderly man strangely sways to and fro. It is, for the most part, a puzzling behaviour, but one that still suggests some basic pleasure of the senses: feeling the stroke of the wind, joining in its dance. Another...

“What makes you angry?” asks the filmmaker. A small film crew enters the ladies compartments of the local trains in Mumbai. Chance encounters and acquaintances are invited to reveal their opinions, their confessions and their stories in a ‘public’ space. Their diverse answers thread themselves in...

There was a time when the youth in the South were seeking to travel. Those who believed that leaving was the only solution. In Abidjan, at the «intelligent immigration» consultancy Campus Monde, young Ivorians are guided and trained to skilfully navigate through the challenges posed by Western in...

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 respond?

Amusing and unsettling, mundane and otherwor...