Sinead O’Connor. The name conjures up an image of a girl with a shaved head, or a girl tearing up a photograph of the then Pope, John Paul II, or a singer who has been pushed out of the spotlight of pop music for her uncompromising personality. Through a contemporary feminist lens, this documentary looks at a five-year period, linking the singer’s career to the complex and eventful past of Ireland, where she was born.
A cinematic portrait of filmmaker Miles McKane, by Yann Beauvais, both Light Cone founders.
The end of World War II included the harrowing public punishment of women who had relationships with German soldiers during the occupation.
Eleven minutes of confusion, in which the viewer enters a dream world where the conscious and unconscious overlap. Is it the resting woman who sinks into sleep or the film that sinks into her?
A diary over 12 years transformed into a non-objective film that reports relevant events for the author and his relationship with the artistic and literary movement Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou.
The imminent danger of the passing train vortex. But it’s okay, it’s just an image on the screens that are the windows of this apartment.
Everything seems strange until, in a two-folded tracking shot, the beauty of the night is revealed.
The solitude in the midst of the crowd that walks in a space with no indication of its location, with no sounds. Only the fragments of dialogue captured by a self-learning program give the images a narrative.
A frenetic and personal film, marked by the randomness of the subjects, like a notebook of thoughts collected over time.
A celestial choreography that tells us about the absolute liberation of references and narrative. Against a starry sky, figures (students at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School in New York) show us the inner universe one enters when one falls asleep.
Two little girls, vampire capes and a penchant for fun. This is how they play with the recurring and classic motifs of horror films, playing with gender identities and power dynamics.
Fragments of the artist’s face projected onto cups, exploring the English expression “I’ll be mother”, said by the person serving the tea.
Mimi Minus is filmed in the middle of the masturbatory act, while the camera moves away until her body blends with the landscape.
A horror film director with an addiction problem receives a mysterious package from Pedro, his ex-girlfriend’s cousin, who sends him an audio cassette, a roll of film and a key to his apartment. Both have a passion for cinema, but Pedro is paranoid with the idea of it being the end of him. Newly restored 4K copy screening for the first time in Portugal.
With Dario Argento as executive producer, this film brings together actors such as Rupert Everett and Malcolm McDowell, with Alice Krige in the lead role. Veronica Ghent leaves for an atmospheric Scotland to recover from a double mastectomy. A film about revenge, but with a dose of nasty humor. Are scars evidence of past trauma or indicative of its subsequent healing?
Amélie, Bintou and Morjana are enjoying their summer holidays and entertaining themselves with scary stories and urban legends. When Amélie has a violent encounter with her ex-boyfriend, the memory of an avenging demon prompts her to summon Aicha Kandisha. However, once summoned, this macabre figure demands the lives of six men — and it’s up to these friends to find a solution to the curse.
Strange bleeds and healing powers. Here are the ingredients of a family of Filipino women in Greece. Emy and Teresa’s mother returned to the archipelago while the daughters stayed in Athens, supported by the Catholic and Filipino community that welcomed them. When Teresa becomes pregnant, Emy must deal with her family’s connection to mysterious forces. Is it religion, mysticism or magic?
What is sonic cooking? The type of art practiced in this story, glued with pastiche and dead-pan humour, which takes place in a house in the bucolic English countryside, in a residence where artists work extracting different and disturbing sounds from various foods. But the productivity of the stay will be threatened by an art collective that is jealous and ready for revenge.