On April 30, 2021 Frontex carried out the first test flight of the Heron 1 – a military surveillance drone stationed on the Mediterranean island of Malta. The continued effort towards an autonomous and militarised European border is engulfed in mystery and lack of information. A failed endeavour to track the medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, relocates the filmmaker inside a digital glitch – somewhere between Frontex, the military industrial complex and a local plane spotter community.
Immigrant workers built a shopping mall for the Munich Olympics 1972. In 2016 this same place becomes the site of a racist shooting.
“And now this hate.“, concludes a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film “Addressee Unknown“ (1983).
The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.
In autumn 2024, in the field and in the forest. Shining blades. A mediation on an object and its purpose in human hands and in the eternity and repetition of time and space.
During a hot summer day, a group of teenagers enjoys an illicit stay at a luxurious villa while the mysterious owner is away. But when Lisa, a CCTV camera operator, calls ready to inform the police she discovers that Mr. Ogre has something else in mind to spoil the party…
A couple’s arguments, taken from life, embodied by ghosts.
After being evicted by the local gangsters, an old carpenter goes on a futile search for his missing cat. As he meanders through the forgotten people and places, he is forced to confront the incurable decay of the town.
When a bus seat is pushed too far back, the passenger behind finds her journey taking an unexpected turn. Moving through ever-expanding spaces, joined by growing crowds along the way, she begins to question the boundaries and meaning of the space we all inhabit.
A unicorn that loses its horn will turn into a crow, but the starfish doesn't care about that until the barber falls in love with the fish. This is an animation inspired by Asian parent-child relationships.
It's a serendipitous encounter - two Chinese high school girls track a certain adult woman living in New York City, eavesdropping on conversations between her and her former friend in the mundane of everyday life, attempting to understand the meaning of growing up.
Four young flight attendants from the low-cost airline PanoramicAir find themselves in a hotel room the night before their flight. Two of them have never flown before, while the other two have. To ease their anxiety, they laugh and joke together, until a role-playing game disrupts the balance of the group, revealing a deep truth.
We live in a time of great ambiguity and confusion. Events keep happening that seem unreal and out of control. Hyper-flexible humanoid robots are getting ready to cook our eggs. Tesla cars are exploding everywhere. LLMs are unleashed on social media to generate synthetic data and consensus. Tech overlords are going all in on AGI, using war as their open-air R&D studio. All around them, the world is burning.
Composed of online archival footage, and part of a trilogy, the film is inspired by Adam Curtis and was dubbed with his synthetic voice.
Deep underground, embedded in old muddy rock, the oracle is waiting. A big bright square tells the story of our present on repeat. Slowly it descends over small motionless people stuck in the middle of a world consuming itself. How do you want to be forgotten?
FUCK THE POLIS is a film about an intimate connection with the world: a profound attempt to look at what surrounds us, where history coexists with the present and our memories and emotions intertwine with the objectivity of reality.
For a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes has been in search of a mysterious elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, a wooded plateau — virtually uninhabited, but in size as large as England. He sets out with master trackers from Namibia, the best remaining in the world, but there is a deep underlying question: would it not be better to keep these gigantic elephants rather as a dream, as ghosts, as the White Whale, than finding them in reality?
The impact of communism was huge. Orphans were taken from foster care into institutional care. This animated documentary, containing the testimony of the man who grew up in an institution and a woman dealing with the problem from outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism the Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.
At first glance, Chameleon and Kiwi are a strange pair while the former draws attention with his changing colours, the balding and perpetually frightened Kiwi shies away from any attention at all. But when an approaching storm sweeps away the roof over their heads, there is no room for differences they must help each other to get to the boat waiting on shore! This is no simple task, however! The Ark is only for selected couples and Chameleon, with his gaping tongue, and cross-eyed Kiwi certainly aren’t one of them. Finally, they trick their way onto the boat but that’s only the start of their problems Kiwi and Chameleon become an unwanted and unexpected burden, disturbing order on the boat. The Ark has set sail, however, and the surrounding land is quickly flooding…
The village party has begun and Róza hasn’t been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes. Róza starts to dance with great passion, quickly becoming the centre of attention. Soon after, she realizes she can't control the shoes, as the shoes are controlling her…
Animated short based on an urban legend from the era of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the WW II. The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupants. He has to stop the Nazis from waking up the Golem - a dreadful artificial being from The Old Jewish Town. Czech variation on classic superheroes. Apart from them it wasn’t created by the fantasy of comic writers. This one was created directly from the folk tales.
The summer of 1936 saw two thousand people executed throughout La Rioja, and among the “tumbados” (not fallen) was Agustín Martínez Royo, the Republican mayor of a small village on the banks of the river Ebro, Alcanadre.
When his body was exhumed during the years of the Transition, an almond tree had grown over his chest. This tree, born from spilled blood, serves as the guiding thread of this auteur documentary, where the search for truth intertwines with the uncovering of the senselessness of a dark and fateful time.
A courageous film director, an “enfant terrible” in his early days, who fought against censorship and constantly pushed the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicling the darkest side of Spain’s Transition, would fall into the depths of drug addiction. For more than a decade he would be forgotten, and at times even rejected, but he managed to emerge from ostracism to return to filmmaking, the addiction he was never able to quit.
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!
At first glance, Chameleon and Kiwi are a strange pair while the former draws attention with his changing colours, the balding and perpetually frightened Kiwi shies away from any attention at all. But when an approaching storm sweeps away the roof over their heads, there is no room for differences they must help each other to get to the boat waiting on shore! This is no simple task, however! The Ark is only for selected couples and Chameleon, with his gaping tongue, and cross-eyed Kiwi certainly aren’t one of them. Finally, they trick their way onto the boat but that’s only the start of their problems Kiwi and Chameleon become an unwanted and unexpected burden, disturbing order on the boat. The Ark has set sail, however, and the surrounding land is quickly flooding…
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.
A group of children visits the ethnographic exhibition at the San Telmo Museum (Museum of Basque Society and Citizenship in Donostia) accompanied by their tutor. The exhibition narrates the last 200 years of Basque Country history, up until 1980. After exploring the exhibition, they share their thoughts about what they saw.
Midnight. Jaime, a baker since he was a child, faces his last dance. The bakery machinery at the establishment works like an orchestra. In an intimate dialogue with the space, the man revisits the place where he has spent most of his life, as the actions of his everyday activities mix together with his memories.
A child plays basque ball and has fun playing around the building.
Following the death of his mother in 2011, the director embarks on an intimate journey through the personal belongings and memories she left behind. This short documentary delves into grief and illness, exploring their ties to dignity, caregiving, and legacy. It reclaims cinema as a powerful tool to unearth the past.
In an imaginary island, childhood inhabits a time without hierarchies. Among ancient trees, scattered branches, and a ship wrapped in mist, the film explores ways of coexistence that require no armor or systems of control. Inspired by real community experiences, Gombaut inhabits a shared territory between species, where life finds other ways of existing.
When death is more present in their lives than ever before, two friends decide to start a new chapter and move together to a rural village.
Memory is fragile, and mine perhaps even more so. I make notes or create clues that allow me not to forget, but at the same time help me cross the threshold of death. My seven-year-old daughter Iune has battled rhabdomyosarcoma. To find healing from the experience, I created a four-part ritual in four directions. A journey back home to Mexico. A journey that has been abstract and confusing, yet filled with symbols and meaning. This expanded cinema experience is built from the director’s random, yet sometimes methodical and systematic notes.
Three kids are looking for something to do on the outskirts of the city. One of them finds a dying animal. The three boys engage in a discussion about what to do with it that will determine their moral judgement.
Cristina isn't well, but not because of the imbalance her husband claims. She's devastated because she has discovered a terrible family secret. Amid all the pain, Cristina gathers the strength to bravely confront the true cyclops who has destroyed their lives.
When her father is involved in a scandal he doesn't want to talk about, Izaro tries to protect her little sister by keeping her out of it.
A demon haunts Adela’s house, tormenting her and causing her harm. This drives her to visit a psychiatrist, where medication is presented as the ultimate cure for all her problems. But what she truly needs is for someone to listen to what is really happening to her. The only place where her reality seems to fit is within religion and folk rituals, leading her to visit a healer to whom she confides how and when it all began.
Joxepi, eldest daughter of the Iparragirre farmhouse, has to carry out her father's job after falling ill: transporting a heavy package across the border with France. The night is dark and not as smugglers often say, for her the police are not the worst thing that the forest hides...
In nighttime Havana, the dim lights that light up its streets rely on an unstable electricity supply- the same one that supplies the sound systems at raves. A group of young people, witnesses to the complete lack of energy, drift through the city, lost in delirious conversations, conspiracies and apathy as the city grows darker.
Next to La Cumbre palace there are two bus stops with the same name. From one you can see the other, and from both you can see the entrance to the palace. The building, impassive, is sheltered within its walls while everyday life goes on.
NATURA FUGIT, an animated short constructed frame by frame from nearly 3,000 large-format drawings by artist Jesus Mari Lazkano over a period of four years.
Based on the painting by C. D. Friedrich in 1824, which depicts the Mer de Glace in the Alps, seized by the Nazis and disappeared. Standing on the glacier, we experience a time travel that dramatizes the progressive humanization of the mountains, as well as the indisputable reflection of climate change, global warming, and the disappearance of glaciers.
Ibai, a young consultant, is tasked with securing the ecological approval for the construction of a new Guggenheim museum in Basque Country's only biosphere reserve: Urdaibai.
In the 1960s (Basque Country), Gartzia, Miren, and their baby are barely getting by in an isolated farmhouse. In a desperate attempt to escape poverty, Gartzia buys a fighting bull, but the plan backfires when the animal becomes uncontrollable. Tension builds until one day, the baby disappears.
