Souad lives in a city on the Nile Delta, in Egypt, Zagazig. To her parents, she lives a conservative and veiled life. But the 19-year-old girl leads another life online, freer and without the constant scrutiny of her family life. Here, the affection we feel is towards Rabab, her younger sister. It’s her that sets out in search of answers, when Souad’s double life results in tragic consequences.
A spiritual sequel to a previous film, Forest, a drama made with very little money, populated by amateur actors and characters with different relationships in crisis, composed in a series of vignettes. Here, we see a return to style and genre, with new characters in an equally claustrophobic environment, where Fliegauf explores themes such as abuse, trauma, loss and revenge.
A documentary about Léon G. Damas, who, like Aimé Césaire, was a poet of the cultural movement of négritude. According to Senegalese colleague Leopold Sédar Senghor, he was the first to “live négritude”.
Sarah Maldoror’s work is politicized and permeated by the struggle for freedom and the affirmation of Blackness. The film uses testimonials from Greg Germain, Maurice Pons, Suzanne Lipinska and the director herself, outlining her life and her activism.
Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt successfully recorded sound on film using a device of his own invention, the photomagnetophone, ten years before there were any advances in commercial cinema—in 1914. These are the original surviving tests.
Michaela Grill uses a montage of images from silent films, with music by Sophie Trudeau, to portray the feelings of despair that the confinement, caused by the pandemic, brought to the fore.
The textures and colors of soap bubbles made abstract, in a work inspired by the formative and constitutive process of nature.
A trip through Clara Cullen’s family tree and personal archive led, five years ago, to discovery that her great-grandmother was the first female director in Argentina, when she found a box with footage filmed by her.
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor and the theater company Cricot 2 take the play Wielopole, Wielopole to the stage at the Théàtre des Bouffes du Nord, in Paris. In the play, the stages of Christ’s passion merge with a military nightmare.
Point Virgule is a newspaper for young people and it’s made by young people. In this piece, they talk about the edition and its sections and texts, including articles on racism.
Charlotte is pregnant and just wanted to leave the English countryside with her boyfriend Ben and fulfill the dream of a new start in Australia. Unfortunately, this will not be possible. Charlotte finds herself in the clutches of Ben’s mother, Margaret (Fiona Shaw, from Harry Potter and Killing Eve), and her stepson, who promise to look after her until their baby is born — an heir to the property where they live. But what will happen next?
A film made with previously classified materials (films and videotapes) that exposes how the secret services of communist Poland spied and recorded the activities of its citizens, from the 60s to the 80s, ranging from phone calls to the most mundane details.
Maya is accompanied by Glória, her best friend, who promises that she will always be with her, into a clandestine appointment. Both trans women, Maya wants silicone, but a timely intervention leads her to change her mind. When they leave, it’s Christmas night and it’s pouring rain. They take refuge in a bar, owned by a Nigerian refugee named Kakule. Bia also takes refuge there, fed up with constant fights with her boyfriend. And so their paths cross.
Fern Silva’s first feature film is an essay-film produced in Hawaii, which mixes cinematographic genres that range from documentary to animation, as well as themes that touch upon astronomy, geology and ethnography. While exploring what unites human beings with the nature that surrounds them and the cosmos that encloses them, this film also looks at the impact of colonialism on that same island.
Lotte Eisner was a journalist, chief curator at the Cinémathèque Française at the time of Henri Langlois, author of the book The Haunted Screen (1952) — analyzing German expressionist cinema — and admired by directors from Fritz Lang to Godard. However, she is still a little-known figure, something that this film wants to change. This mission is accompanied by archival images, film excerpts and interviews with figures such as Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
A film in two temporal moments. In 2013, Edouard and Suzanne Mouradian live surrounded by screens, computer games and visits by their grandchildren. In 2024, Suzanne is alone, with only an active relationship with contemporary technology, be it cat memes or bitcoin fluctuations. When she discovers an application that promises to bring Edouard back to (her) life, she doesn’t hesitate to try.
Bill Benz, in his first feature film, reunites with Carrie Brownstein (from the band Sleater-Kinney), with whom he worked on the comedy she created with Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), Portlandia. Brownstein is the author of the script alongside Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent. The idea, in this mockumentary psychological thriller, is to explore who the “real Annie” is through the eyes of her best friend, Carrie.
A film that presents the testimonies of Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor’s neighbors, intertwined with his poems and Senghor’s conversations about his life and career.