Alice's life changes when Laura, the daughter of her neighbor on the wall, knocks on her door to ask if she knows anything about her mother. No one has seen her for days, neither Alice nor Laura, nor the lonely residents of the building.
Plural, complex and full of colors, Lalla Rami is a transgender artist with a busy past. A little boy born in Morocco, it is on the Parisian stages that she shines brightly, despite the difficulties of everyday life.
Équarrisseurs
A documentary about Vesna, a single mother who sustains her five children through the small business of making traditional homemade bread.
Gert Wingårdhs Nobelhus
La Oreja de Van Gogh: al descubierto
After being offered an Interrail, Samuel, a young French-Armenian man, teams up with his friend Gabriel to visit Germany. However, unexpected events left them in awe.
Film played at Robert Owen’s School for Children's AV Theatre in New Lanark, set in the year 2200. Time-traveller Harmony tells the story of New Lanark.
In Prison (1957) is a BBC documentary examining daily life inside HMP Strangeways Prison in Manchester. Filmed within the institution, the film observes prisoners and officials as part of a closed system housing hundreds of inmates, focusing on routines, discipline, confinement, and the psychological effects of incarceration. Avoiding dramatization, the documentary presents prison life as an enclosed social world, shaped by regulation, isolation, and repetition, offering a rare contemporary view of Britain’s penal system in the postwar period.
Right now more than 100,000 young Norwegians between the ages of 19 and 29 are engaged in neither work nor studies. In DROPOUT we meet Danielle, Darie and Tiffany, who for different reasons find themselves in this situation. With empathy and insight, director Kristin Heien gives us a glimpse into some of the lives behind the statistics, and helps us understand why some people have a harder time adjusting to the demands of society than others. The result is a thought-provoking humanist documentary which offers valuable perspectives on modern-day Norway and lets us see the unemployment numbers in a new light.
This documentary, made entirely of archival footage shot mainly by amateurs, revisits 50 years of Chilean history. A fascinating lesson in memory, this personal montage adopts a popular, even fringe, perspective to help write a more complete national memory. As the filmmaker asserts in her narration, there’s the history we’re told, the history we live, and the history we tell ourselves. Between the coup d’état of September 11, 1973, and the recent double failure of the new constitution project, this film shows that the people of Chile have long oscillated between excitement and disappointment, accumulating shattered hopes. Rejecting the pessimism that would trap us in collective immobility, Karin Cuyul instead draws on the past to ask how we can continue to dream of the necessary social and political changes.
Carambolage dans une France ordinaire
This film is dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding poet, enlightener, and writer Cholpon (Abdulhamid Suleyman ogli). It portrays the tragic chapters of the poet’s fate, his repression, and exposes the politics of the former Russian Empire and the traitors who led Cholpon to the brink of persecution.
Woord x Macht x Strijd
Italian mondo movie exploring themes of love, sex, eroticism, and perversion.
Ball is a 30-year-old who lives with his parents and works from morning till night, yet doesn’t shy away from parties and the consumer pleasures of urban life. However, in keeping with Thai tradition, he decides to become a monk for a short time. He enrolls in a monastery set in beautiful surroundings, run by a charismatic abbot with an intriguing past.
Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to the stage, facing the music industry and a medical crisis that nearly ends his career. A story of grit and passion.
In the midst of the most horrid stagnation era in the Soviet Union – at the end of October 1982 – the Monk (Ivo Uukkivi), Allan Vainola, Peep Männil, and Villu Tamme gather for band practice in a room above the garage of a private house in Pääsküla and form one of the most (politically) heavyweight punk bands in history – Velikiye Luki. For the 60th jubilee of the Soviet Union, Ivo and Villu bake a voodoo ginger cookie and while they gobble it down, they demonstratively establish their programme of action: to destroy the Soviet Union.
Loving Karma ifollow-up to the Emmy Award–winning documentary Tashi and the Monk. Set in the remote Himalayan foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, India, the film retells the original story in a newly reversioned ‘Directors Cut’ and then expands on the journey of Tashi, a spirited young girl who was once one of the most troubled children at Jhamtse Gatsal Children’s Community.
It observes an astonishing cosmos of blooming microorganisms, such as fungi and mould, which have been documented with patience and precision. These images are connected to museum paintings depicting historical and modern Easter processions, while the restoration of frescoes and priests' relics raises questions about decay, fragility, and gratitude.