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.
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.
Vadim has to get out of the comfort of his own square, something that’s not easy. Out there, there is only the unknown. And the unknown is always frightening. Until we embrace all that it can offer us, the good and the bad.
A village in Corsica, in the summer. A piece of the life of its inhabitants, between the games of the youngest, the love affairs of the teenagers and the considerations of the elders. The heat of the season, in the middle of August, also heats up tensions, which threaten to overflow.
Hong Kong is the place where Simon Liu grew up and the director’s relationship with the region – which has been the site of protests with the People’s Republic of China – permeates this film. From the small pleasures to images of recent events, it all works as a tribute or as a call to attention.
In the Air Tonight is, according to Phil Collins, a song about divorce. But for years, there’s been an urban myth that imagines it as something very different. This legend is re-imagined with a dreamlike narration that transforms – with a wink – the song’s experience.
The black square in the middle of the screen. The contorting human figures. The succession of images in constant visual and sonorous assault. An audio sample of the opening of the 1965 Op Art exhibition, The Responsive Eye. Five minutes of extreme sensory experience.
A film that results from a conversation that the director has with his mother in which he asks about the day he was born, opening an intimate door not only for the relationship between mother and son, but for the life experience of this woman.
If museums are institutions that preserve cultural history, they are also spaces for selecting what kind of objects, therefore which aspects of history, are chosen for preservation. This decision is made, for the most part, by men. At the same time, museums around the world are full of portraits of women. This imbalance calls for a reaction. Here, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig collection is seen through the eyes of girls aged from 7 to 19.
Joanna Quinn’s idiosyncratic and funny style recovers the character Beryl to explore her eccentric family – Colin, the geek son; Ifor, her husband, who became Beryl’s model and inspiration; and the narcissistic sister Beverly –, and the various obsessions that plague them.
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.
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.
A film-exploration of the concept of time and a meditation on its passage, to the sound of electrical composition by Jukka Ruohomäki, with sound material created in 1970 by a DIMI synthesizer designed by Erkki Kurenniemi.
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who resided in the United States and was vocally critical of the Saudi Arabian government, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, on 2 October 2018, and disappeared. The murder of this Mr. K is told through news reports.
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