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"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.

Short film in which we see DeCarrio Couley shadow boxing.

Trying to impress, Jules invites some partygoers back to his family’s bowling alley. The anticipated party quickly becomes anything but a party.

Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-town filled with broken dreams and addiction.

Sam is a teenager whose many anxieties manifest as a ghostly apparition of his mother that is determined to give him a panic attack.

He danced for fame. She danced through pain. For old times' sake and to new beginnings . . . in a fleeting moment.

The Seven Deadly Sins - Are they true to being called sins or are they simply human impulses? To what is a sin and what is not? Such is a question worth pondering. In the end - do as you wilt.

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.

Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century

A journey into the creation of Institute Benjamenta with the Quays, Mark Rylance and Alice Krige.

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this family.

A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

A short documentary on the creation of the Pixar SparkShort "Self".

When a reclusive young woman receives an invite to her estranged friend's birthday party, she spends an entire day obsessively preparing herself to go. However, an emotional phone call with her mother derails her plans and leads her back into her usual self-destructive cycle of behavior.