An aspiring astronaut and a dedicated cyclist (both to her bike and her goal of breaking her record) find an abandoned dog, by the side of the road. And this is where the adventure really begins.
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Aline Sitoe Diatta is a female Senegalese icon of resistance to French colonialism. Rokhaya Marieme Balde is the director who returns home, to Dakar, in order to make a film about this historical figure.
Fábio travels the streets of Mouraria with the tension of someone who has to solve a problem that has no solution. When trying to pay off a debt with a client, forbidden and oppressed feelings rise up. And the problems grow denser.
A film divided into two moments. First, a dinner provides space for friends to share stories of being an immigrant in Lisbon, ending with Nina regretting her return to her country of origin for a job. Consequently, an unwanted answer to that lament becomes a nightmare.
Kátia’s world is the stage. It’s where she lights up, where she feels alive, and singing is how she fulfills her purpose in life. A documentary that shows the woman behind the karaoke and the people who fill her life and her audience.
Anthological documentary that traces the impact of the music, performances and ideas by Brazilian singer Ney Matogrosso, from the second half of the twentieth century, through archival footage of his concerts and interviews over the decades.
The interior of a parked car, with a dead battery, on a hot day. Safa has to wait and help will take a while. Heat adds to tension and frustration.
A film that is the culmination of seven years of filming, with intimate and abstract images, that captures the details and the big picture. The de- and re-contextualization of these images creates a symphony.
Adolescence is a moment in limbo, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, always on the threshold of something: the end of classes, the end of summer, the beginning of the rest of your life. While we wait, we kill time, we meet someone, we throw a party.
An aesthetic feast and a love story between a man and his motorcycle. The roads it rides, the beauty it acquires. And no, of course he is not going to lend the bike to anyone.
Restrepo points his 16mm camera at a Colombian area, Choco, geographically isolated between sea and forest, on the border with Panama. Despite the adverse living conditions, it opens the way to religious missions, military operations and even tourism projects.
We are in Medellín, Colombia, and time is marked by the repetitive and constant moments, and movements, in city life, like neverending traffic, or people taking a break from work.
It’s impossible to tell the history of violence in Colombia. An internal and interminable armed conflict has had its lines of demarcation become indecipherable and it’s merely a part of life in this country. But Restrepo tries to tell this story.
A mother and a promise. “If the dead command the living”, sings a woman that promised her mother she would find the father she never knew and settle the score with him, for both of them. Upon the rumour that he died, she doesn’t quit and continues searching for him.
A musical with the drummer and percussion master Mahomed Bangoura, with vague hints of his own life. In this film, a man who discovers news of his daughter’s death at the hands of her husband is urged to do justice himself, releasing his anger and pain.
A film made of collages. Collages of images, collages of poems to images, and collages of music to images. In this film, a journey is built through excerpts from popular Greek films from the 50s and 60s, poems by Greek authors and the music of Manos Hadjidakis.
What does it mean to be a Palestinian film director? Or a refugee director? What does it mean to make (or be able to make) films in Palestine? Three filmmakers, refugees in the Dheisheh camp, talk about their cinema. And they show it too.
A film about the moments and places that women from Kabylie (Algeria), who otherwise live in isolation from society, are able to find or live in where they can exist, sing, dance. Part of a bigger cinematic project on Kabylie.