Turn your love into a weapon. This film reads Soviet revolutionary and sexual activist Alexandra Kollontai’s writings on female sexuality and emancipation, on the abolition of the family and the need to “change hearts and minds”. This reading traces a complex web of connections between 20th century European Marxist feminism and 21st century Latin American transfeminisms, and between the melancholic gaze of disenchantment and the furious, tender, and imperious demand that the Revolution, finally, fulfil its promise.
Christine Angot, a novelist, returns to Strasbourg with a camera as part of her literary tour. There she met her father when she was thirteen and spent a holiday with him. It was then when he started to rape her. He passed away a long time ago, but her family still lives at the same place. She decides to knock on their door.
In the theatre of the Cold War, astronauts lost in the Darien Gap are besieged by their deepest fears when surprised by an indigenous person. Did they think they were going to be decapitated, or eaten by a wild cannibal? A deconstruction of film and propaganda archives from tropical survival training challenges the colonial narrative inscribed in the conquest of space.
After his death, Fernando Ruiz Vergara left dozens of film sketches that he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker had only directed one documentary, Rocío, heartbreaking and fascinating, cursed after its judicial censorship in the early years of democracy in Spain. Since then, his projects have remained latent in imagination and desire. In this film, we fabulate with those dreamed projects to bring them to the cinema from the present, as a gesture of resistance.
An unflinching chronicle of Americans at war with each other, offering an unprecedented look at right—wing activists as they search for purpose and power—with dire consequences.
Sound and image stare each other in the face as Oksana Karpovych contrasts quiet compositions of everyday life of Ukrainians since the full-scale invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
Emakume helduek beren ezkonbizitzaz hitz egiten dute, "lehen aldiaz", sexualitatearekin duten harreman intimoaz. Antzinako erritu horiek errepikatzean, zuzendariak zalantzan jartzen du ezkontzarik eta seme-alabarik ez izatea, eta, horrekin batera iraungitzen den ama-alaben arteko harreman-kate bat.
In 1952, Anita Conti, France's first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen, alone with her camera and sixty men for six months. Using her 16mm film rushes and photographs, the film reveals her scientific and yet tender gaze for the workers of the sea. This pioneering woman foresaw the need to protect the oceans.This film explores the modernity of her struggle, as well as the hazy, rhythmic beauty of her writing and photography.
