Over the course of a year and a half, this documentary follows three activists - 16-year-olds Saoi O’Connor, Theo Cullen-Mouze and Beth Doherty - as they lead demonstrations, interrogate politicians, and work alongside Greta Thunberg to create a vision for the youth.
Mexico City was built on a lake, yet today it faces water scarcity. This film allows us to reflect on this contradiction. It also travels back in time to the day when a monolith representing Tlaloc, the aquatic deity, was transported to the center of the city.
In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs to re-imagine this dirty paradise as a throbbing visual mosaic. The evocative imagery is harmonised by a dark music score composed by The KVB.
A short non-narrative film about rain falling in, the director, Maxwell Reh’s backyard.
A box with a 1992 VHS and some film slides from a friends trip to Sri Lanka.
A girl reads during a bus ride
Dans un Souffle traces Belgian figure skater Nina Pinzarrone's fragile yet unyielding pursuit of perfection. In blank and white, the audience is guided through fleeting shapes and expressions, exploring the quiet pain behind her graceful facade. Guided by Nina’s breath and silence, this documentary takes you on an ephemeral journey as she prepares for her first World Championship at the age of 17.
The resurgence and expansion of the current Chalco Lake reveal a natural environment altered by humans beings, the bad conditions of the countryside and the greedy urbanization that converge at the Southeast side of Mexico City.
Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.
After saving an abused pit bull, a troubled Brighton Beach teenager who makes ends meet through crime while raising his little brother, must protect the dog from its nefarious owners.
Based on true events, the film is the meeting of two people from diametricaly opposite cultures at a typical Los Angeles bus stop. The more they interact, they realize one common factor brought them together as their lives intersect in transit.
With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the “dead-on-arrival” corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods.
The story follows two paramedics who get “more than they can chew” when responding to a 911 house call.
Tenzman, a world-weary musician, develops an unexpected bond with two bold kids, sparking a journey of purpose and possibility.
A nerdy but smart girl, Nia, has a one-night stand with a billion-dollar fashion empire owner, James, and he mistakes Nia's best friend, Seline, for the girl he found himself infatuated with and had relations with. As Seline and Nia serve as his first and second assistants, the web of friendship and love gets beyond entangled.
A craftsman's short poem on humanity, using painstaking cutout animation by animating thousands of small pieces of linoleum.
When of bunch of friends go missing, its up to three friends to solve the mystery.
After taking a pill that makes him relive memories, Elias returns to the last moment with his first love, ready to face, years later, the true reason for their breakup.
Following a near-fatal traffic accident, Lizzie's moving out of her mum's care and back to London (or as Mum calls it, the city of death). But Lizzie's going to live.
It's the 90s in London. During her lunch break, a businesswoman calls her boyfriend for phone sex. It doesn't quite go to plan.