The chickens are suspicious, the relationships are dubious and businesses are shady. Margarita and Güte are stuck in their stagnant and unhealthy rural village. But they can‘t decide whether to leave the place or to change it. Meanwhile people are disappearing, the radio is sending messages and the world is awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Columba that will take humans to the edge of the solar system. "But out there is nothing" says someone at the dinner table.
In a small town in Chile, rural life deals with the electric grid that provides power to the rest of the country. A child ventures out among hundreds of transmission towers and thermoelectric power plants and giving himself over to chasing rabbits. In the darkness, the threatening presence of the large-scale industrial complex reveals the workings of an unequal system.
A Polish van traverses the roads of Ukraine. On board, the driver-director and evacuated people, following the Russian invasion. The vehicle becomes a fragile and temporary refuge, a zone of confidences of exiles who have only one objective left, to escape the war.
This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer.
In a small village in Finland, which has relied solely on metallurgical activities for the past two centuries, the poet and writer Mika Lätti, and his friend, director Aki Kaurismäki, are constructing their own cinema theater within an old foundry. Employing recycled wood, metal, and pre-owned furniture, Kaurismäki and the residents of Karkkila collaboratively craft Kino Laika. The venue is surrounded by Cadillacs, motorcycles, rock bars, and the awe-inspiring beauty of nature, encapsulating the very essence of cinema’s enchantment - a place where the magic resides in its profound capacity to instigate change.
The Adamant is a unique center: a floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them the type of care that anchors them in time and space and helps them recover or maintain cheer up. The team that runs it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can.
How far could Iván Zulueta's work go? This session contains a number of intuitive suggestions as to where it could have gone.
The Franciscans have been in Arantzazu for more than 500 years. From their spirituality, they have always had a close relationship with the people. They have also played an important role in the Basque socio-cultural construction and have left us a valuable treasure that we have internalized and consider very much our own. It is necessary to make it known, since it is part of our history and of our being. Arantzazu would not be what it is today without the Basque people, and the Basque people would not be the same without Arantzazu.
Manuel Méndez "Manolo Kabezabolo" is the last punk musician who has transcended space and time becoming a counter-cultural phenomenon with more than 40 years of artistic career, and a referent character of the undeground. His difficult and hilarious youth made him take the leap into squatting philosophy, insumision, the street, the punk’ life style... and also drugs, mental illness and psychiatrits. In spite of everything, his state of serene maturity and his unbribable, combative, uncritical spirit are still intact and with his guitar sharpened.
Mar dreams of being able to record the sound of whales. But when she embarks with a cetaceans research team, she realizes that in order to listen to the world's largest animal, one has to be silent.
1978. While talks are going on for a new agreement in the metal industry, a group of libertarian militants encourage their fellow factory workers to defend their radical position. Meanwhile, they watch in dismay as the workers’ movement becomes fragmented.
Watching the street from the window, Caroline jumps when she hears the sound of keys; it's Nathan, her husband. He's got his hands on a lottery ticket that belonged to a dead girl. They argue as to whether it is right to cash it in. Nathen tries to convince her...
Ramona, a woman who has just left home, wanders into a distant neighborhood of high-rise buildings and lush weeds. There she is reunited with her son, and in search of shelter, she takes refuge in him and the friends who accompany her. The woman spends the night with the group of perspiring youths, inhabiting the darkness in packs, summoning fires of joy and protection.
At 10 years old, Clarissa already feels grown up, but she soon discovers she’s still missing something to be considered a woman. So begins Clarissa’s intimate, turbulent journey as she tries to uncover the secret the women in her village are hiding. But only after losing herself does Clarissa discover what it really means to become an adult.
Adele is a 15-year-old girl who is running away from her home country. For this she must make a very hard trip and face nature, human injustice and the purest loneliness. Four Western friends will cross her path.
Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of breaking out to join the man she loves - a punk musician named Heinrich. Though the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.
Our common pain although experienced individually and uniquely is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables some of these alternatives may be malignant and some benign.
The life of the young couple formed by Mia and Claudia is about to change, but when everything seems to be going as planned, a single moment will change everything.
After her miscarriage, Ines faces the melancholy of a silenced grieve, and approaches with fear and anxiety her new pregnancy.
Iran, 16 September 2022. Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women severely repressed by the regime. Narges Kahlor explores the videos of these revolts published on social media, paying tribute to these defenders of the people armed with telephones.
On the island where the filmmaker’s grandmother is buried, it is the tradition of women to choose the image that will represent them on their grave after they are gone. As director Sara Jurinčič and her mother travel to this island, we enter a world without men, where female ancestors take center stage. This beautifully crafted film, both playful and serious, takes us on a cinematic odyssey to hear what the ancestors are whispering from their silent portraits.
