It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early.
She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.
X is growing up in the 1990s, she makes prank calls as a child and gets her first job in telephone sales as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X's actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset. Am I Calling You At A Bad Time is an experimental documentary with fictional elements based on recollections of true events.
Inside my head, there's a cat, a dog, and a pile of rocks.
Starting with an excerpt from an Albanian feature film from the communist era in which a boy dreams of the construction of a modern city, EVERY EPOCH DREAMS THE NEXT reflects on how a cityscape changes as power structures shift and how these power structures can override the common good and the general public.
A day in the life of a woman who is busy taking care of her obese dog. Her lovely show of affection towards the animal is interrupted by the arrival of her partner, who, in need of the woman's attention, affects the cozy atmosphere of the house.
In Slet 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her aging body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a teenage girl’s diary from 1988 and exposing the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body was creeping in, soon to shape the future of the country.
Under a burning sun, Adel and Moïse try to come to terms with the loss of their father. But as their grief turns into an obsession, a rift grows between the two teenage brothers and threatens to separate them.
After waking with excruciating neck pain, a woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories, haunting dreams, and the relentless challenges of simply moving.
Animal Eye follows scientists and philosophers studying animal vision, confronting the limits of science, film, and philosophy in grasping how others see. Using ultraviolet, polarized, high-speed, infrared imagery it creates a kaleidoscopic encounter with worlds beyond our own. Blending method and wonder, the film asks how we engage with the nonhuman, inviting us to see animal visions as forms of thought that resist full comprehension.
Why do Iranian security forces in Protest of 2022 target the eyes of protesters, and thus vision itself? A duo of Iranian filmmakers in exile in Berlin take this as a ground line, they reconstruct narratives of images taken from social media during the protests. The film presents this search in the montage process, in which the filmmakers combine their distanced, subjective narrative with the images of the protest to examine the power of the images of the protest as a political construct.
Marianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. As silence sets in, their fears and worries grow, revealing the fractures in their own lives. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred.
A group of mirror factory workers publish a book of reflections.
Based on a real mirror catalog from the USSR, the film reimagines the roles of the uncredited models within it as active producers of their own images.
Parallel lines sometimes intersect.
In the early 18th century, in the blue mountains of Jamaica, enslaved Africans who had escaped from plantations founded autonomous communities of Maroons. Queen Nanny, their supreme leader, led their struggle for freedom. She is one of the most celebrated figures from Jamaica, and embodies the victorious fight against slavery and colonialism, as well as the resistance of the island’s women. Her spirit remains very much alive.
In a discotheque stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each search for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade.
Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained by Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?
A southwest Chinese family tries to purge a mysterious entity from their queer heir, torn between love and tradition.
As an aquatic malady threatens their forgotten coastal village, three young fishermen resort to illegal dynamite fishing.
A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.
Otoño de 2024, entre el campo y el bosque. Cuchillas refulgentes. Una meditación sobre un objeto y su propósito en manos humanas y en la eternidad y repetición del tiempo y el espacio.
At 18, a young man commits to 17 years in the military. Inside the system, he witnesses things he hadn’t thought possible. Many of his comrades consistently make mistakes or lack the physical and mental endurance. The military is well prepared and quietly removes the deviants from the countless formations they have to perform. The young man holds up well, but Frank, his roommate and friend, has a problem. His repeated failures have caught up with him.
The shooting of Franco Maresco's film on Carmelo Bene is interrupted. Maresco accuses the production of "filmicide" before vanishing. A friend steps in, investigating as a chance to explore one of Italian cinema's most corrosive authors.
Between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the land quakes from time to time, and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. The ruins that lie below — Pompeii, Herculaneum, long-submerged Roman villas — tell of a future that was buried by time. From these traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with lives.
Duela gutxi aurkitu zituzten Gazako bizitza islatzen duten 2001eko hiru MiniDV zinta. 1989an espetxeko kide ohi baten bilaketa gisa hasi zenak ustekabeko bidaia bat eragin zuen Gazako iparraldetik hegoaldera, Hasan bertako gidariak lagunduta, eta orain ez dakigu hari zer gertatu zitzaion.
Memoriari, galerari eta denboraren joanari buruzko gogoeta zinematografiko bat, zeinak agian inoiz berriz aurkituko ez diren bizitzak eta iraganeko Gaza bat irudikatzen dituen.
This short animated film is set in a cold Nordic country in the early 19th century and tells the tale of an old man who works as an awaker, waking people up. His life is always the same — until one day he gets a shiny old bell.
A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave her no support. Sometimes it's too hard to open your feelings and share it with a loved one. Sometimes it's too late. Let your painful memory fly away like a free little bird.
The death of a beloved pet is hard to deal with, and even if we try to prepare for it, it often takes us by surprise. This is the story of a boy and his dog Dede, who suddenly passes away. Lost in the depths of grief, the boy eventually discovers that her death does not necessarily mean that Dede is completely gone.
A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the inhospitable wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.
The Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in sand of a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister. But The Big Sister keeps growing and sinking into her trap. Despite of The Little Sister’s attempts to stop it, she is left with one night to say goodbye and let go.
A documentary based on edited footage that explores the traumas of the post-war period in Spain, comparing images that remain alive in people’s memory and images filmed at the time.
Two transgressive journalists decide to transform a hundred-year-old wedding dress atelier into the first feminist culture center in the city. What if they wanted the entire work to be done only by women?
Lehen begiratuan, Kameleoik eta Kiwik bikote bitxia osatzen dute: lehenengoak atentzioa ematen du bere kolore aldakorrekin, Kiwi burusoilak, aldiz, ihes egiten dio arretari eta beti dago beldurrak jota. Baina hurbiltzen ari den ekaitz batek teilatua birrintzen duenean, ez dago desberdintasunentzako lekurik: elkarri lagundu behar diote itsasertzean zain dagoen ontzira iristeko! Ez da zeregin erraza, ordea! Arka hautatutako bikoteentzat soilik da eta, Kameleoi, bere mingain handiarekin, eta Kiwi begiokerra ez daude hautatuen artean. Azkenean, ontzian sartzea lortzen dute, baina arazoak hasi baino ez dira egin: Kiwi eta Kameleoi nahi gabeko eta ustekabeko zama bihurtzen dira, eta ontziko ordena hausten dute. Arka jada itsasoratu da eta lurra azkar gelditzen ari da urpean…
The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.
This short animated film about a little boy who longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city is a homage to Jacques Cousteau.
Bicycle Face is an audiovisual essay reflecting on the relationship between women and bicycles from a contemporary perspective. Through film fragments, archives, texts, fiction, and sounds, it creates a collage that celebrates women’s freedom, struggle, and resilience. It stems from a 19th-century event, when a fictional disease was invented to discourage women from riding bicycles.
A poetic and experimental essay on the idea of returning to live in the countryside. Filmed in Super8 and through camera editing, this project pays special attention to the smallest details, which often go unnoticed, and tries to make the return home more pleasant. Through animation and text, questions are raised about what it means to be human; the city tends to destroy the animals that we are.
Two friends chat about life on the shore of the sea.
Traditionally, women's bodies have been the object of regulation from different spheres, becoming regulated and disciplined bodies in order to fit into a specific statute, woman, in singular.
This is a mockumentary inspired by the real-life kidnapping of the “Sireno de Getxo” for protest purposes, which constructs a fictional story: ten years later, this same group of activists kidnaps Marijaia, the patron saint of the Bilbao festivities, to draw attention to climate change. Through fictional interviews with neighbors and witnesses to the kidnapping, it humorously shows how a rumor can become news and how it is possible to construct a collective narrative through a hoax.
Zazu, a teenager in the midst of discovering their identity, must choose whether to take part in their village’s traditional celebration by assuming a predetermined role, or stay true to what they feel.
Claudia works. Maider reads. Claudia cooks and Maider keeps reading. Who takes care of those who make movies?
Behind the orchard that surrounds the squatted neighborhood of Errekaleor, the constructions of tall and new buildings of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz grow.
While its inhabitants resist the threats of eviction creating a collaborative network, other species grow in the orchard and begin to dialogue with the community.
VIENTO is a visual story in super-8 where migrants remember and live the Andean wind from their memory. The two migrant directors collect seven testimonies and create a common story about the memory of the wind as a sensation, sound, smell, taste, image. The wind as a subject of movement, as a companion of migration, as that interstice of nostalgia where the mourning of migrating and the joy of moving meet.
The Arditurri mines closed in 1984. Nineteen years later, those who enter them have no idea that true terror awaits inside.
Maite, Unai and Merche are Alicia's bookbinding students. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue sheets to extend the life of books. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its variations.
Aurora, Dessi, and Samara, three Roma women, head to the centre of Bilbao to buy a birthday present for their niece Sarai.
Nora, a non-binary person living in Barcelona, reflects on them gender identity by connecting images of her childhood recorded by her mother with images that they have recorded on the streets of the city.
‘It is said that very soon, if God does not intervene, we women will have to go to war’ is the first verse of an old song that haunts Inés when she hears it in the voice of her grandmother Esperanza. A search full of women in whom Inés recognises her present.
Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s.
Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?
It’s the beginning of summer, and Ane is turning 30. After blowing out the candles with her family around the table, Ane finds out that her father did not die of natural causes as her mother Carmen had told her when she was a child. This revelation changes Ane’s life. At the end of the summer, Carmen tries to reconcile with her daughter by spending the day together at the swamp.
Sensei tells the story of a coach, Aritza Saratxaga, and her students. The generations that have passed through her school have left a legacy of surfers unique in the history of surfing in the Basque Country. A coach with a unique character who works hard to raise his students to the top of the competition. A unique vision in which you will see reflected the different situations that surfers and coaches go through.
