A film in two parts: a first act filmed as an observational documentary in the world’s largest flower market, followed by a fictional second act about a man, afflicted by a terminal illness, encountering a stranger in a train station bar. A radical reflection about time running out and what remains to be done, adapted from a play by Pirandello.
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity.
Tooba Gondal is one of the most infamous British jihadists. When she was only 20 years old she left London to join the Islamic State and gained popularity worldwide as “the ISIS matchmaker” after she recruited a dozen of Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and 2017 she actively engaged in propaganda on social networks. After disappearing for two years, Tooba was filmed in 2019 by director and freelance reporter Benedetta Argentieri, in Raqqa, Syria. Is she really the nice, intelligent and submissive girl we see on camera? Or is she a violent extremist? An interesting reflection on the Islamic holy war seen from the point of view of the women who are part of the caliphate, fighters and executioners themselves.
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.
Football stadiums have long been the designated places for the escalation of conflicts and every incident during a football match makes for a fire-starting headline material. Meanwhile, the armies of six former Yugoslav republics have been getting together every year for over a decade, for a futsal tournament in the name of peace, in almost complete media silence.
What’s an IKEA table breaking point at the weight of a crumbling friendship? It’s nearly time for dessert, the pressed down wood chips are about to crack. This is cubist history about two friends, a lost table and its replacement.
This is an attempt to rebuild a landscape. Between 1937 and 1943 in Asturias, during Franco's regime, a recreational area and a target shooting range housed a concentration camp. Sharing a pensive observational gaze with the viewer, this essay attempts to resignify the space and revive its political meaning. It is not a question of showing (or filming) the invisible, but rather revealing what is absent from what exists today.
Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko’s poems become the last bridge of communication between them.
Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky on the trail of clues to rebuild their own world. They find no humans; nothing remains but the vestiges of a lost capitalist chimera, a programming failure in a perpetual mechanical loop. But among the images and sounds of the emptied city, they detect a coded transmission, a secret kept by faceless guardians. An afrofuturistic dream, a techno hope.
A woman and a man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.
Sounds and images of the childhood of someone who feels closer to blood-stained knives and rags than to the purity with which childhood is usually conceived when imagining children playing with each other. However, to speak of her childhood is not just to speak of blood, but of her mother and the smells of her flesh.
Elias, 17 years old, suddenly loses his father. In high school as at home, his mother and friends await his reaction which does not arrive. Elias goes on with his life as if nothing had happened.
The process of reliving a memory – and the disintegration that follows, through a series of associative images. Through the effect of its images, the animation attempts to lead viewers into a hypnotic mental and emotional state, where they can experience the manifold character of memory, and the pleasant, yet ephemeral joys of descending into our recollections.
Stitch by stitch, frame by frame and memory by memory, this animated documentary unburies Heleny Guariba’s history, a Brazilian philosopher, theatre director and professor disappeared in 1971 under the dictatorship. It is inspired by the arpilleras, tapestries that emerged from the horrors of Pinochet regime in Chile as a unique form of political protest.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín while a young director tells the story of his past in that violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is the film’s cast, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. This documentary explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.
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A ten-minute episode in the lives of the pupils at a deaf boarding school is reconstructed in real time.
In Várzea Queimada community, in the Sertão of Piauí, Northeast of Brazil, a place with about 900 inhabitants and a high rate of deaf population, access to water and public investment is scarce, as is the learning of the official Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), the Brazilian sign language. In the face of all these limitations, the deaf community created its own language. Body and speech exercises, improvising outdoor stages for spontaneous testimonials from a group of 18 local characters. Most of the statements, most of them untranslated, are revised speech by speech, linking gestures to words, systematizing Várzea Queimada's gestural lexicon as if we were facing an educational video that teaches a new language, beyond its universe and its own questions.
Summer 1977, London, United Kingdom. The Sex Pistols release the song God Save The Queen to coincide with the Queen’s Jubilee — 25 years on the throne. It’s immediately banned. Even though it reaches Number 1 in the hit parade, it’s never heard on the radio — it’s silenced. As a form of cheeky tribute to the anarchic impulse and visual refreshment of the original song, this version explores the power of British Sign Language to convey the message which remains compelling.
Little Red Riding Hood is on the way to her grandmothers. In the forest, she comes across the evil wolf who tries to fool her in order to eat her and her grandma for dinner.
“Fire”, a poem about mortality by Giselle Meyer, was shot from behind a matte glass sheet and provides a fairy-tale spectacle. This is one of a series of five innovative shorts, presenting the visual power of poetry in sign language. In all film poems of the series Motioning (Bewogen) visual rhythm, repetition, wide-angle and close-ups shape the dynamics of the composition.
During the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, 13-year-old street boy Roma runs around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and molotov cocktails. He quickly becomes a familiar face and a mascot for the revolution. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hides a lonely boy from an orphanage who, five years later, turns 18 and is suddenly back on the streets with nothing in his pocket but a lighter and a knife.
Kassandra Wedel, dancer, actress and all around artist, roams the city picking up sounds and movements from her surroundings to compose her very own music and dance. We explore what sound and music mean to her and witness the process of translating dance into music. She challenges our current perception and understanding of sound and music. Her only advantage? Her deafness.
Para Sarya (17 años), una joven kurda refugiada en Japón, la vida parece ir viento en popa: sus notas en la escuela son suficientemente buenas como para pensar en la universidad, está rodeada de buenos amigos y su relación con Sota se está convirtiendo en una especial. Sin embargo, su vida da un vuelco cuando se entera de que el estatus de refugiada que tenía su familia ha sido rechazado, lo que restringe sus posibilidades de trabajar y viajar por la ciudad. Sin embargo, su padre continuaba trabajando para ganarse la vida, por lo que es detenido por “empleo ilegal”. De repente, Sarya se ve obligada a afrontar una situación en la que será responsable no solo de sus hermanos menores, sino de su propia existencia.
Ez bultza egin! (EBE!) is a project combining film, music and art, directed by Igor Rezola Iztueta & Juan Pablo Ordúñez / MawatreS.
The entry for the 64th ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao - is based on the French film La haine (Hate), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, and first screened in 1995.
EBE! embarks on an exercise to revise, reread, rethink, reinterpret and work collectively on the film, as contemporary cultural and artistic production. To this end it will be joined by Los Voluble, Dano (Ziontifik), erra (ber 3), Beñat Krolem, Maria Muriedas + Iñaki Billelabeitia, Adrián Romero and Miguel Espiga + Raúl Jiménez.
A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.
Guoqiang is a socially awkward Instagram poet and occasionally posts his self penned haikus on his Instagram page. In order to get more attention for his haiku, Guoqiang decides to go to local author Augustine Chua’s writing panel to get his feedback. When he eventually gets the chance to ask questions during the Q&A, he comes off confusing instead, creating mass awkwardness.
Nothingness bursts, and lets out something. From a dark, tarry mass beings emerge genderless, looped and alone, in repetitive aimless motions. Everything changes when one of them discovers “something”. It is a red ball taken from within itself. Immediately, the ball starts getting bigger, shifting its shape and hypnotising all of the beings.
In a barren land there is a lone greenhouse with four inhabitants. From a nearby lake a mysterious man emerges and goes on a motorbike hunt for living souls. A girl from the greenhouse, the only one uncaptured, follows the soul hunter into a hidden realm of hallways and ruins. When she finally reaches her enemy's secret lair, she realizes that it was all part of an alchemical ceremony that she herself has to bring to its conclusion.
Satakshi and Madhu, who went to school together, reunite after years of being apart on a night of festivities during the Durga Pujo in Kolkata. As the night progresses, we find out that both of them have feelings for each other, but they are not able to express it. Their secrets are preserved in a notebook entry by Madhu from her school days, and in a postcard that Satakshi sends Madhu six years from this night.
Sun starved teenagers take on a dreamy trip to the Balearic Islands in the pursuit of light and warmth. They must absorb it and be a vessel in order to transport it back to their heavy clouded Kingdom.
A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
Maria, a 48-year-old woman, is trapped between two worlds: one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.
During their special "dates" with their artificially intelligent companions, three young Chinese women reflect on the uniqueness and boundaries of such intimate relationships. This work captures the richness of these bonds, from philosophical questions to intimate moments to the real sense of security and companionship afforded by these artificially intelligent lovers.
Ava and Hélios, friends-in-love, evolve in a golden Paris. At a party, their obsession with each other drives them to excess and manipulation.
Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At La Specola Solare Ticinese federal observatory in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.
A woman is stuck in a world full of stains, spots and repetitive thoughts…
Ming es una joven solitaria de 19 años que trabaja en el turno de noche en una tienda de conveniencia. Un día, cerca de la Fiesta de la Primavera, su vecino Rui la invita a una cena "especial", lo que le hace recordar su pasado oculto.
Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from an immense loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion would then expose the prosthetic limb to a mélange of textures and materials, whilst documenting the whole process. As the moon inches closer and closer towards the sun, the boy sees something unusual reflected on the water's surface… What will become of the limb, and what will become of the video recordings?
A film in two parts: a first act filmed as an observational documentary in the world’s largest flower market, followed by a fictional second act about a man, afflicted by a terminal illness, encountering a stranger in a train station bar. A radical reflection about time running out and what remains to be done, adapted from a play by Pirandello.
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. A hundred men confront with excerpts from the novel, “ Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself ”, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
Tooba Gondal is one of the most infamous British jihadists. When she was only 20 years old she left London to join the Islamic State and gained popularity worldwide as “the ISIS matchmaker” after she recruited a dozen of Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and 2017 she actively engaged in propaganda on social networks. After disappearing for two years, Tooba was filmed in 2019 by director and freelance reporter Benedetta Argentieri, in Raqqa, Syria. Is she really the nice, intelligent and submissive girl we see on camera? Or is she a violent extremist? An interesting reflection on the Islamic holy war seen from the point of view of the women who are part of the caliphate, fighters and executioners themselves.
In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
Isolated in the Amazon rainforest lives a community of children in deep intimacy with the nature around. Between the waters of the Pastaza River and the top of the trees, these kids run their daily lives almost autonomously and with a strong sense of collaboration.
This work is a collage of images, repetitions, and memories, built through the intervention of the Colombian news archive during the 80s and 90s. It also reconstructs a story linked to a generation — my generation, that grew up by normalizing violence through these same senseless images.
Based on the found-footage anonymous five-hour documentary, To Watch the War (2018), this film is thus a second-degree artistic appropriation of amateur footage shot during the war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, recombined into a surreal anti-war film-poem — authored by Kavelina herself. The war videos are interspersed with the director’s own animated segments, staged mise-en-scènes, and archival footage of the Donbass from the 1930s (when the region became a hotspot for Stalinist industrialization of the Soviet Union, and of heated class warfare) onwards.
March 14, 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War. In the last few weeks, intense warfare has surreally mixed places and people and created a post-apocalyptic dimension revealing new qualities and roles. Thousands of Kyivans have moved to live in subway stations. The capital city’s previously calm suburbs have been transformed into battle zones of destruction and looting by Russian occupiers.
Ukrainian reality is divided into two periods — before and after the war. In the nationwide resistance, every citizen tries to be helpful. Ukrainians change professions and adapt to wartime needs. Sculptors fabricate anti-tank obstacles in their art workshops. Just like the Terracotta Army, silent figures of Ukrainian personalities, angels, Cossacks, and multiple copies of Jesus Christ are frozen in anticipation of new creations. Craftsmen weld metal defense items for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In 2022, Mantas Kvedaravičius went back to Ukraine, Mariupol, at the heart of the war, to be with the people he had met and filmed in 2015. Following his death, his producers and collaborators have put all their strength into continuing transmitting his work, his vision and his films. With huge force and sensitivity, the film depicts life as it continues amidst the bombing and reveals images that convey both tragedy and hope.
Nerea and Martina´s life has not been the same. They have been distancing themselves for a long time. They were best friends but after what happened, they do not know how to behave or what to say to each other. They keep spending time together but their conversation is not the same, they seem like two strangers. One day they decide to go to the beach to spend the day. Loneliness and their inner strength leads them to face their memories and relieve their tension.
The term bergie is a South Africanism that refers to people that are homeless, since they sought refuge on the slopes of Table Mountain in the past (in Afrikaans: Tafelberg). When a law enforcement officer has to remove homeless people to make way for a 10 km fun-run, he has to navigate the complex intersection of the law and personal responsibility when confronted with the dignity of those often ignored.
Liminal space between documentary and visual tale. Alternating archival film material with new footage, this film grants a unique insight into the peaceful and sublime ways of the Universal White Brotherhood.
Rachid lives in an old Factory of Death — as he calls it, in El infierno neighborhood. Nobody really knows why do they call it like that, there are only hypotheses and legends. But Rachid do knows why.
Karen, a young girl obsessed with the influencer of the moment, Kamilah Kay, decides to have surgery to look like her. When she sees that the new Karen is going down so well on social media, she begins to use her savings for more operations. The more closely she resembles Kamilah and the less she resembles herself, her life gets better, until one day something horrible shakes up her new idyllic life.
Izaro and Clara, both 17, work as instructors at a children’s summer camp. On a hot summer’s day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, filled with desire, feels confused as she tries to process what has happened to her and is willing to follow wherever Clara wants to take her.
A peaceful demonstration in Minsk is brutally put down by the police. Two female journalists from an independent Belarusian TV station are the only ones broadcasting the events live. When they are tracked down by a police drone, they face a dramatic choice. A drama inspired by the true story of Katerina Bakhvalova and Daria Chultsova, two Belsat TV journalists who were sentenced to two years in a penal colony in 2020. In July 2022 Katerina's sentence was extended to eight years.
Centuries enduring masculine gazes. Now, these jellyfish turn everyone who looks at them to stone.
Andrea is a young woman with a special profession. When somebody feels paranormal phenomenons at home, she is the only one who can explain them. Nevertheless, on each visit Andrea insists: There are no ghosts, those are echos of someone who was among us once.
After not seeing each other for years, Anna and her former school bully, Jasmine, meet by coincidence when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface and the encounter turns a cheerful dance class into a battle for status where emotions blur Anna’s judgment. Will the bullied become the bully?
According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OPOB), approximately 95 % of Poles identified themselves as believers. At the same time, unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people sought spirituality, seemingly impossible events are possible…
This experimental work portrays a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place. As a reverse sci-fi journey, this work mixes real and fictional archives to guide us, like a stalker, to the outskirts of an invisible place.
At the mercy of the dentist's chair, the protagonist cannot escape the confrontation with pain and the dregs of the miserable human condition. To distract himself, he takes refuge in a fantasised story of fishermen and the sea.
In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls is in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. His plump friends begin to partake as well and a feast begins. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful game begins higher up in the branches.
Nicolas invites Violette to celebrate his birthday with him.
Instead of feeling happy on her birthday, France gradually succumbs to her fears.
Los hermanos Florence y François se preparan para festejar el cumpleaños de su padre.
The day before she turns 50, Paula goes back to Dunkirk, where she lived some time ago. There she does not meet up with any men from her past.
Although she is a married woman, Ninon decides to invite some of her former lovers and would-be lovers to her birthday party.
Immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16 mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this essay is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world. Zoe leads us among wild horses, seals and bugs, through peaks, valleys, roots, sands, weathers, seasons and stars.
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. A hundred men confront with excerpts from the novel, “ Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself ”, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in France. But when her little sister Leila gives birth to a baby girl Inaya, their worlds are turned upside down; we witness their journey, guided by the polar star, to overcome the family’s fate.
Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the Depression Federation, 16-year-old Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi and a love story begins between the two millennials caught in the undertow of their oppressive government. Together, Marusya and Kimi film the euphoria, anxiety and misery of their youth, burning the candle at both ends, fuelled by drugs and music.
Haleh is a very protective mother, who easily spoils her 4 years-old boy, Ilya. When one day the boy stops talking, Haleh and her husband Amir start searching for the reason and the remedy for this sudden mutism. The more they try to talk to the boy or consult experts, the worst things are becoming in the couple and the family.
During the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, 13-year-old street boy Roma runs around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and molotov cocktails. He quickly becomes a familiar face and a mascot for the revolution. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hides a lonely boy from an orphanage who, five years later, turns 18 and is suddenly back on the streets with nothing in his pocket but a lighter and a knife.
A collection of the challenges and reflections Izaro faced before her May 7th, 2022 concert at Anoeta’s Velodrome. In just five years the young trilingual singer has become the most important singer in the Basque Country. She has overcome many barriers and frontiers as well as achieved amazing success in all her region’s stages. She has collaborated with artists such as Amaral, Zahara, Rozalén, Xoel López, Alex Ferreira and Daymé Arocena, and has played in cities like Paris, Helsinki, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. This documentary follows Izaro’s emotional journey, her reflections on the difference between the personal and public character, peace treaties, fellowship, and the revolution of tenderness and care.
A video war means pitching two artists and/or groups against each other, throwing out humorous Internet videos while they talk about them to viewers.
A woman was almost called Avioneta [small airplane] at birth. Another had a library in the back seat of her car. Yet another fractures her finger with the rebel shelves of her bookshop. Lectors read to cigar makers while they work. Women remember poems while they iron. And to them all I sing. Standing against fire, water, moths, dust, ignorance and fanaticism, an anonymous female army looks after books. An intimate resistance, lacking epic events, revolution or weapons.
Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in France. But when her little sister Leila gives birth to a baby girl Inaya, their worlds are turned upside down; we witness their journey, guided by the polar star, to overcome the family’s fate.
How does it feel to play? What does it mean to listen? As some of this existential questions are asked to musicians, long pauses occur. Because is it even possible to put the emotions of music into words? The documentary is a cinematic improvisation piece. It’s about being present in the now, about playing and improvising, about carrying on the legacy of generations of jazz pioneers and creating something, unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín while a young director tells the story of his past in that violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is the film’s cast, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. This documentary explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.
In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for a development of luxury apartments. Seeing this demolition as a perfect image for portraying the death of a certain Lisbon in the wake of the financial crisis and the ensuing real estate and touristic boom, the director proposes to film an urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there.
For Sarya (17), a Kurdish refugee girl in Japan, life seems to be looking up: her grades at school are enough to pursue college, she’s surrounded with good friends and her relationship with Sota is becoming special. Sarya’s life becomes upside down, however, when she learns that her family’s refugee status is turned down, restricting her family of work and traveling across the city. Her father, who had continued to work to sustain a living, is taken into custody for illegal employment. Sarya is now suddenly forced into a situation where she is responsible not only for her younger siblings but for her very existence.
Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning. The processor is not the newest but still calculates six jumps per iteration. One iteration takes one minute, this is 360 jumps in an hour and 8.640 jumps in a day. I wouldn’t be able to jump so much myself.
As the flashy life of the influencer 33 gets crazier, the canker sore inside her lower lip keeps growing larger…
Rita belongs to a women's choir which is in danger of breaking up because they’ve lost the municipal subsidy that allowed them renting their rehearsal room. Now the group has to decide whether accept or not the sponsorship of one of the companies that pollutes the valley the most.
I never met my grandmother, but I live now in what used to be her house: an empty wall, a doorknob, a dripping tap. As I trace the memory of those objects, my mother's voice invokes a cracked past. I film. Inadvertently, a story that was ours no longer belongs to us.
A robot whose job is to collect mechanical parts from the forest spots a nymph that fascinates and attracts him. Trying to look alike the wood’s creature and get near just to meet her, he starts dressing up with natural elements while a caterpillar decides if the costume is valid or not.
On her way back from a heroic mission, Cassi gets stranded on a mysterious island. She meets an eccentric hermit, and they set off to find her a new boat. The erratic depths of the island force Cassi to reevaluate her quest, while the hermit must face someone from his past.
We have many emotions that have not been observed. "I" has a feeling of fear of being doubted by others because of a cup of coffee that has not been thrown away. The whole film revolves around the observation of this emotion. By depicting four trivial things that are growing up, and tracing the reasons for its formation, "I" finally sees the appearance of this emotion.
When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
The forest begins once again where the river is reborns constantly and murmurs in a forgotten tongue. The townsfolks work the dry soil to bring to the surface the trees that once habitated Ulla. They recall the landscape they never got to see. ¿Who will habitate the forest when it starts to be one? ¿Can a forest be seeded? ¿Will someone name it? ¿Where does a town begin?
Two people meet for the first time in a park on a beautiful day. As they engage in conversation and get to know each other, the world from afar seems to tremble.
A fable exploring the relationship between a new form of authoritarian system and its citizens who have adapted to it. A group of people are cleaning a spotless unknown space. The broadcast repeatedly warns them about the coming attack of aliens. A sandstorm invades the space as the foreshadow of the arrival of aliens. However, one person accidentally discovers the mystery hidden in the sandstorm… Do the alien attackers really exist?
While doing his job as a street sweeper, Juanjo Navas went through the street named after the poet Blas de Otero, one of the great XX Century lyric authors and an emblem of the fight against the Francoist Dictatorship. By chance he discovered his verses and, with the assistance of the Blas de Otero Foundation, he decided to turn them into flamenco. This documentary follows the steps of that encounter between poetry and flamenco in a city, Bilbao, which is scene and catalyst.
Written two weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This drama conjures up playwright Andrii Bondarenko’s life in Ukraine: the peace and tranquillity of his boyhood — bookended by historical traumas, revolutions and war.
A compendium of short films that highlight the full tragedy that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It charts the course of the Russian progression across the country through the lives and communities of those affected by the wide-scale aggression, alongside those fighting for their land. It also details the force of the assault, but its primary focus lies with the strength of the communities that have had to endure unimaginable hardships but who remain resilient in the face of such oppression. It joins an increasing number of ground-level films documenting the reality of this modern tragedy.
A documentary about one of the greatest Brazilian soccer players of all time. The title refers to Garrincha’s ability to enchant his fans with his Chaplinesque personality, his bow legs, and his unconventional talent for surprising his opponents.
When the American Samoan national soccer team suffered the world’s worst defeat, losing to Australia 31-0, these tiny islands crash-landed into last place in the FIFA world rankings, and became known as “the worst team in the world.” Despite having not won an official match for more than a decade, the team is held together by their pure love of soccer, deep faith, and American Samoan pride.
Roman, an Art History student, is in love with Eva, a girl whose silhouette reminds him of a sculpture his uncle made.
A young girl studying in Paris considers posing nude for a painter.
Lucie and Eva meet up by chance after a long time with no contact. Eva, who has become a painter, persuades Lucie to pose for her on the red sofa in her lounge.
A newly-wed couple have just moved into their home. To decorate the new flat they choose a 1930s paint which will stay with them for a long time.
Mélanie is a young student who is going to pose nude for a photographer.
Ninon and Vincent are two street artists on the lookout for tourists to draw in the streets of Paris.
Mid-crisis, the employees of MEGESA (Sevilla), Battenfeld, Fisam, Eursotil, Roselson (Barcelona) and Babcock & Wilcox (Bizkaia) give their testimony. The economic crisis leads to redundancies, closure of factories, and layoffs. The trade unions emerge, but the agreements they reach with the Spanish government do not satisfy the workers. Assemblies, marches, traffic-stops and calls for solidarity assail the country, and the first general strike since the death of France is organised in the Basque Country.
A film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain and the inner city riots of 1985, as point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London. Running throughout the film is the idea that the riots were the outcome of a protracted suppression by British society of black presence. The film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret history of dissatisfaction that is connected to the national drama of industrial decline.
A new critical look at the militant cinema of the 1960s in Europe, that focusses on the disruptive potential of women in the film genre. The structure of the film is based on a reassessment of the story “Klara eta biok” (Klara and Me, 1985) by the Basque writer Itxaro Borda. Confronting the author with her words from the past, it aims to provide an updated critical perspective on the Basque militant identity.
An experiment in working together and a film about the future. The collaboration began with the discovery of a sunken slave ship, and an artist asking a philosopher — how do we get to the post-human without technology? And the philosopher replying — maybe we can make a film without time. The result is a video that speaks from inside the cut between slavery and resource extraction, between Black Lives Matter and the matter of life, between the state changes of elements, timelessness and tarot. Together we ask: what becomes of the human if expressed by the elements?
The film uses experimental forms to look at life in Britain in 1984, focusing on the experience of the Black British. It recognises that the different power dynamics that determine this experience are difficult to reduce to straightforward explanations and instead uses the term “territories” to reflect the multiple agendas and experiences at work. These agendas — or territories — involve race, class and sexuality.
A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea. By weaving together different cinematic textures, this essay re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.
Sitting on a hill, Inaxio mourns the death of his wife through a bertso [Basque verse]. His grandson Ekaitz seems to have been invoked by his song and returns to the farmhouse to take care of his grandfather and the animals that provide them food and company. The two, with different visions of the environment, will unite again to face the complications of the future together.
After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown, Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the Castells will change her dreams and desires.
A year has passed since the death of Ainhoa's father. Since then, mother and daughter live in the farmhouse where they use to live together. As everything around reminds her of her father, Ainhoa will want to leave. Her mother, however, will try to keep her around her. With the excuse of the death of a cow in the farmhouse, the mother will try to prevent Ainhoa from leaving.
The Virgin appeared to Sofía. Then she travelled to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and was cured of something incurable. In another time and another place, a group of doctors meet to discuss her case. What happens when science and religion meet?
An actress and a filmmaker rehearse a film screenplay. The screenplay includes excerpts from the diary written by María Dolores González Katarain “Yoyes” during her exile in Mexico between 1980 - 1985, after leaving ETA, the armed organisation she used to lead.
Ale, a 17-year-old woman, lives in rural Costa Rica with her two younger siblings. Through landscapes fuelled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale will try to protect them from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.
A hot midsummer night. The young couple, Maia and Txema, finally relaxes after a long day. Suddenly they get anxious because of some screaming. Maia tries to convince her partner that something bad is going on. The evening out then turns into a fight that questions their relationship.
A filmmaker recalls a unique outing with his parents in Singapore on February 2020. A contemplation on life, death and the ever-changing landscape on this small island.
In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.
In 2021, hundreds of thousands of people took over the streets in Brazil, in the midst of a pandemic, to protest against the Bolsonaro government. Inspired by Joyce Wieland's 1973 film of the same name, this film portrays these manifestations by focusing on the expressiveness of human hands rather than Wieland's feet. Gestures of affection, resistance, protection, joy or repression are revealed in these images made in super 8mm ektachrome.
10-year-old Bakyt lives with his father. They go to the baths together and eat together. Their relationship is not verbose, the father tries to bring up independence in the child. Thus, the father does not come home at night. Bakyt, hiding his anxieties, continues his daily routine. He goes to school, cooks for himself, but every night without his father it becomes harder and harder for him to endure.
Among intrusive and sought-after memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being. A cryptic cry for help that becomes intelligible guides her to the original wound, to her inner child, becoming her own protector.
Ten years have passed since the creation of the Pabellón Nº6 space. The founders as well as actors and actresses linked to it talk about what the reconversion of an old sawmill into a pole of cultural attraction has meant.
Magnificent landscapes, gorgeous nature and swarming cities laying beyond the sea. The life and tribulations of communities sharing their destiny with the desert: what the camera doesn’t capture live, archival materials provide, blending past and present punctuating them by the rhythm of Iratxe Fresneda's flow of thoughts, through her voice over.
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity.
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“We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I’ll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson! " And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skilfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?
In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the Depression Federation, 16-year-old Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi and a love story begins between the two millennials caught in the undertow of their oppressive government. Together, Marusya and Kimi film the euphoria, anxiety and misery of their youth, burning the candle at both ends, fuelled by drugs and music.
This work is a collage of images, repetitions, and memories, built through the intervention of the Colombian news archive during the 80s and 90s. It also reconstructs a story linked to a generation — my generation, that grew up by normalizing violence through these same senseless images.
Photos of a sunset. A book about frogs held by hands. A woman’s face reading. A wildcat among several hands. A passing sunrise. Based on the poem “Esta es la mano que cuida” [This Is the Hand that Cares], by veterinarian and writer María Sánchez, this essay is build as a diptych on the learning processes of our relationship with other species.
A wagon loaded with the skeleton of a whale — one of the most significant pieces of the Nazarene school cabinet, leaves after the school building was sold to make a luxury hotel. The van crosses those emblematic places of Rome, which, like the school itself, have been displaced and emptied of meaning in a speculative operation to clean up the history generated by the city's own tourism.
Matixa, 22, lives with her parents. Her bedroom and her stability are in disarray: the situation is explosive. Helped by her friend Leire, she looks for support outside the family. Convinced that cutting ties with her mother will make her freer, she decides to leave home.
1966. En el pequeño pueblo de Bizkarsoro, en el País Vasco francés, cuatro jóvenes encuentran algunos pedazos de papel enterrados en un bosque. Estos tienen viejas palabras escritas en vasco, pero Michelle tiene 21 años y no las entiende. En su familia hace tiempo que no se habla esa lengua.
Two women take the weight of a world where care is in ruins. Gladys, from her everlasting confinement in the house where she works as a live-in servant. Ima, in her unending wait in front of the sea for the next ship to break its nets. Spaces that are also work, works that are houses and houses that are not always homes. The memories of their experiences are intertwined in a sensory story that leads us to the question: In whose hands is it that the situation changes?
A mother bathes her baby, while other children play with the water coming from the sprinklers. Between intimate and familiar images, something begins to unravel: spaces are transformed, allowing trauma to surface. Starting from a personal memory and from the notion of water as a vital but also potentially destructive substance, this fiction takes us on an immersive journey through childhood’s states of perception, exploring the materiality of water in parallel with the materiality of film.
My father only used a camera once in his life. Thirty years later, he asked me to digitise the material he had filmed. I was wondering what he remembers. Created from an impulse to rethink and rewatch personal archive footage, the film explores memory and its relation to documentation and non-institutional archive practices. Connecting politics with intimate spaces, the documentary questions both the influence of war on private archives and the role of gardens as places of new begginings.
How does it feel to play? What does it mean to listen? As some of this existential questions are asked to musicians, long pauses occur. Because is it even possible to put the emotions of music into words? The documentary is a cinematic improvisation piece. It’s about being present in the now, about playing and improvising, about carrying on the legacy of generations of jazz pioneers and creating something, unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
“We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I’ll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson! "And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wisely desperate, and sends images and words from Switzerland to the other side of the Channel. In his mansion in Sussex, Ebrahim Golestan tries to decode these UFO-messages and skilfully seeks to bring them back to the appearance of reason. And so on, until the day a veil falls over the two Gods on the run. Does the existence of poets still have any meaning in these times of distress?
In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for a development of luxury apartments. Seeing this demolition as a perfect image for portraying the death of a certain Lisbon in the wake of the financial crisis and the ensuing real estate and touristic boom, the director proposes to film an urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there.
Haleh is a very protective mother, who easily spoils her 4 years-old boy, Ilya. When one day the boy stops talking, Haleh and her husband Amir start searching for the reason and the remedy for this sudden mutism. The more they try to talk to the boy or consult experts, the worst things are becoming in the couple and the family.
Isolated in the Amazon rainforest lives a community of children in deep intimacy with the nature around. Between the waters of the Pastaza River and the top of the trees, these kids run their daily lives almost autonomously and with a strong sense of collaboration.
NOIZ and ZINEBI present Martian Civilization A/V Show, with electronic music and live visuals by Bilbao musician and producer Zabala.
In 2020 Jon Aguirrezabalaga (WAS) produced a futuristic piece with melodies portraying a frozen beauty and atmospheric landscapes, a tour finishing up at ZINEBI. A show with visuals by Mikel Aguirrezabalaga, weaving a live discourse combining his own audiovisual material with metrics produced by Rafa Zubiría and Asier Bueno, based on a futuristic dystopia on the red planet.
We round off the night with a DJ stint by Easyer.
