In 1819, British forces charge on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, which results in the Peterloo Massacre. Mike Leigh tackles this historic episode with a contemporary point of view.
Secção: Silvestre
The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the 1990’s.
In a surreal sugary apartment a cougar, a guest and a child discuss sexual fantasies.
Bnei Brak is the world capital of the Haredim, the ultra-Orthodox Jews. When he was a kid, the well known actor Menahem Lang was raped by members of the community. After 20 years, he returns to the scene of the crime.
Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt.
Abebe Bikila conquered Africa’s first gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome: what can this event tell us of today’s Europe?
A dream of ektachromatic consciousness in a single urgent synaptic utterance.
An investigation on films and strange experiences of the 1970s, that look at ecosystems from a co(s)mic perspective.
“Bigger than Life” is a music film that focus is on the fabrication of national history through architecture and urban planning.
Upon a lying woman’s blue sheet, a flicker of light illuminates her insomnia.
In “Bookanima: Dance”, old dance manuals are given new cinematic life.
Based on Murakami’s ‘The Elephant Vanishes’, the new film by Lee Chang-dong tells a mysterious story built on a love triangle composed by Jongsu, Haemi and Ben. One day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby.
Three spy stories: a suspicious woman in Tehran, killer animals in Cairo and an Al-Qaeda romance.
Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies during the Cultural Revolution.
An imaginary portrait of pornstar Ashlynn Brooke.
Laëtitia, Roca, Nico, and Naël get together for their final rehearsal. The group will soon no longer exist since Laëtitia is going away to study.
The teenager Alice T. is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Alice is an endless source of problems to her mother and one day she discovers she is pregnant.