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The Great Wall
The Great Wall
‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.
The Great Wall 2015
Sycorax
Sycorax
Who is Sycorax? The first character in Shakespeare's "Tempest" to set foot on the island. The problem is that she has no voice. She is barely mentioned by Prospero as a crooked, old, wicked witch who vilely locked Ariel, the spirit of the air, in a tree. But why would she do that? Here, we wouldn't believe Prospero so much.
Sycorax 2021
The Future Tense
The Future Tense
Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers’ own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, along with the brutal history that lies submerged beneath Ireland’s heavy, moist earth.
The Future Tense 2022
Love Infinity - When The Sun Goes Quiet
Love Infinity - When The Sun Goes Quiet
Oscar-winning artist and costume designer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Tim Yip turns his lens on a dream of East London, bringing together iconic artists like Gilbert and George, Vivienne Westwood, Jonny Woo, Pandemonia, Andrew Logan, and Daniel Lismore.
Love Infinity - When The Sun Goes Quiet 2022
The Supper
The Supper
Five ex-political prisoners meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974 on the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk about their experiences in prison.
The Supper 1974
Bunny
Bunny
Bunny is a love letter to the fantastical childhood we leave behind. The story explores a delicate relationship between a little girl and her pet toy - Bunny. Things take a sad turn when Bunny is found 'dead' under mysterious circumstances on a rainy afternoon. An adventure explodes when the eager-to-please boy next door buries Bunny in the neighboring woods, only to discover later that Bunny has disappeared from his soggy grave...
Bunny 2015
Divinely Evil
Divinely Evil
In a salmon-coloured drawing room, a writer of sadomasochist literature now in her seventies narrates her turbulent, sexually explicit life story, once as her pseudonym and once as herself. What makes up a true biography, the real or the imaginary?
Divinely Evil 2020
Tomboy
Tomboy
Jenny Cohen isn't like all the other little girls, she's a tomboy. And when a new boy arrives at school, she thinks the only way to get his attention is to change who she is. Jenny quickly learns the importance of staying true to oneself.
Tomboy 2017
Celluloid Man
Celluloid Man
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
Celluloid Man 2012
Cuatro paredes
Cuatro paredes
Karla arrives in Tijuana, Mexico to stay at her estranged aunt’s house a year after her father’s death. In this moment of solitude and calm, she looks up, down, inward and outward via the transpositional alchemy of text and is reminded that speaking to oneself feels like a vital human practice.
Cuatro paredes 2021
Z32
Z32
A former Israeli soldier participated in a mission of retribution in which two Palestinian policemen were killed. He seeks forgiveness for what he did. His girlfriend does not think it is so simple and raises questions that he is not yet able to cope with. The soldier willingly testifies before the camera as long as his identity is not revealed. The filmmaker, while seeking a solution to protect the identity of the soldier, questions his own political and artistic conduct.
Z32 2009
Le Moulin
Le Moulin
Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’ collective which protested in the 1930s against the cultural superiority of the Japanese occupier and the domination of realism in poetry.
Le Moulin 2017
Shangri-La
Shangri-La
It’s California, during the Great Depression. A woman is confiding her most intimate thoughts in a church confessional, while the man on the other side listens silently and intently. But this is no ordinary religious ritual seeking salvation. The woman — a second generation Filipino farmhand — is rapt in roleplay reverie, her sensuous words aimed at her white American lover, during a historic period when such interracial relationships were forbidden by state law. The confession box transforms into a romantic time machine, ecstatic and melancholic, traveling into alternate futures. She manifests as multiple, dazzling women, and they can love freely. This is the 21st commission from Miu Miu Women's Tales​ series.
Shangri-La 2021
Miracle
Miracle
After losing her home and all that she's known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul.
Miracle 2022
Easter Eggs
Easter Eggs
The Chinese restaurant is empty. The cage full of exotic birds is wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. But catching these animals isn’t as simple as it seems.
Easter Eggs 2021
Dustin
Dustin
In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is dancing as one on 145 BPM techno music. Among them is Dustin, a young transgender woman and crew: Felix, Raya and Juan. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
Dustin 2021
Correspondence
Correspondence
In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
Correspondence 2020
Fire in My Belly
Fire in My Belly
Echoing the precarious times we live in, a newly commissioned documentary Fire In My Belly (2021) offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London. (Whitechapel Gallery) HD video, colour, sound
Fire in My Belly 2021
80,000 Years Old
80,000 Years Old
It’s summer. Celine, in her thirties, archaeologist, spends a weekend in her childhood home. Her archaeological research are mixed up with her memories of adolescence and some random reunions from her walks.
80,000 Years Old 2020
The Lebanese Rocket Society
The Lebanese Rocket Society
Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary.
The Lebanese Rocket Society 2012
Bickels [Socialism]
Bickels [Socialism]
The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweeping over tiled floors, an expressive façade of countless adjustable panes of glass covered by a patina. It’s October 2016 and a group of young people are preparing a preview of Bickels [Socialism]. The venue is to form a prologue to the completed film, which tours 22 buildings in Israel designed by Samuel Bickels, most of which for kibbutzim. Dining halls, children’s houses, agricultural buildings, bright structures inserted into the Mediterranean landscape with great ingenuity. An architecture with a sell-by date: That many are now empty or have been repurposed at best is linked to the decline of the socialist ideals they embody.
Bickels [Socialism] 2016
Dreams
Dreams
Scarred Baghdad 2003... confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a Psychiatric Asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past and the present of three Iraqi lives entangled by the chaos of the American 'Shock and Awe' campaign...
Dreams 2006
Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia
Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia
With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this video expresses the scale and power of the Burning Man experience. Superb cinematography and editing are combined to make this is one of the most moving Burning Man videos ever produced.
Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia 2007
Bye Bye Africa
Bye Bye Africa
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother.
Bye Bye Africa 1999
Dear Babylon
Dear Babylon
The future of social housing is threatened by the AC30 Housing Bill. Set in London's East End, a trio of art students are eager to raise awareness about their neighbourhood especially the lives of tenants and people who work on the estate.
Dear Babylon 2019
Lek and the Dogs
Lek and the Dogs
An adaptation of Hattie Naylor's play, Ivan and the Dogs, which follows the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
Lek and the Dogs 2018
Play It Safe
Play It Safe
Coaxed into playing a racial typecast in a fellow student’s play, Black drama student Jonathan is faced with all too familiar decision: to challenge prejudice, or play it safe.
Play It Safe 2021
Mobilize
Mobilize
A journey by canoe into the city creates a dynamic interconnection between natural and urban spaces, in this evocative short set to a hypnotizing soundtrack by Inuk artist Tanya Taqaq.
Mobilize 2015
Out of Thin Air
Out of Thin Air
The Ladakh Vision Group is shooting a new film: Las-Del (Karmic Connection). The film director is a Buddhist monk while local housewives, policemen and taxi drivers play heroes and villains.
Out of Thin Air 2010
Kokutai
Kokutai
Literalising the titular term roughly translatable as 'body politic', Kokutai explores the fascist aesthetics of Japan's biannual national high school baseball tournaments.
Kokutai 2019
Papirosen
Papirosen
A portrait of Argentine director Gastón Solnicki's family over the course of the second half of the 20th century, Papirosen follows four generations still troubled by a war that’s never spoken of. The film juxtaposes different periods with their native image formats, along with landscapes, characters and international political events, as it focuses on a singular decade of a nouveau riche Argentine Jewish family, and the new generation’s introduction into familiar traumas and vitality.
Papirosen 2014
Glass Life
Glass Life
A dynamic configuration of images and videos overlaid with musings on human existence.
Glass Life 2021
The Cat, The Reverend and The Slave
The Cat, The Reverend and The Slave
Markus is a furry: the animal that lies dormant within him is a cat. Benjamin is a modern minister: he preaches sermons in a virtual church. Kris is a Gorean Master: he controls his slaves' sex lives from his bedroom... A documentary about three emblematic Second Life communities.
The Cat, The Reverend and The Slave 2010
Aidez l'Espagne
Aidez l'Espagne
The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrospective exhibit in 1969. There were heated discussions on whether it would be prudent to screen the film during the exhibit. Portabella took the following stance: "either both films are screened or they don't screen any" and, finally, both Miro l'Altre and Aidez l'Espagne were shown. The film was made by combining newsreels and film material from the Spanish Civil War with prints by Miró from the series "Barcelona" (1939-1944). The film ends with the painter's "pochoir" known as Aidez l'Espagne.
Aidez l'Espagne 1969
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire
This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire 1956
IWOW: I Walk on Water
IWOW: I Walk on Water
At night, the streets of Harlem are haunted by lost souls. Bodies that drift around in the darkness and bear the weight of the past on their shoulders. The Haitian man Frenchie is one of them, and his accentuated stutter bears witness to exile and years of abuse. But he is more than just that in Khalik Allah's new, hypnotic film opus, which turns the American tradition of social realist street photography into its own art form.
IWOW: I Walk on Water 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
Apiyemiyekî?
Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population, including children, reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.
Apiyemiyekî? 2020
Jeny303
Jeny303
A site of activism and bloodshed, Building 303 was an icon of Bogotà. Now demolished, the university—and its political graffiti—haunts this spectral short, intruding on a portrait of a recovering addict. Laura Huertas Millán’s film is one of ruin and survival, inspired by its “living works of art.”
Jeny303 2018
The Absent Stone
The Absent Stone
In 1964 a colossal pre-Hispanic monolith was taken from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan in the state of Mexico and brought to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Since then, the absence of the monolith has been present in the memories of the inhabitants, as well as in endless reproductions and ripostes.
The Absent Stone 2013
Autorsha
Autorsha
A lady auto driver joins an auto stand full of men.
Autorsha 2018