Saint-Étienne : ville secrète

A mother and daughter attempt to rebuild their relationship, which fell apart in the shadow of childhood trauma. Armed with a camera, the director returns to her childhood home in search of recognition. Between bags of clothes, the generation and memory gaps are revealed. Despite the geographical and mental distance between them, they share a common desire for love and closeness.

Short film about the addictive nature of alcohol

Various amphibious pond dwellers, including grass frogs, tree frogs, common toads and other amphibians are shown moving around, feeding, mating, fertilizing and evolving. Also on display are natterjack and midwife toads, yellow-bellied toads and water frogs.

The biodiversity of a pond, which is already endangered in many places, is shown. The individual specimens are introduced over the course of an early summer's day. The highlight is the frog concert at night.

Opération Père Noël

In the 1990s, Lee Priest was once a young, extremely talented, and promising professional bodybuilder heading straight for champion status and success. He was also an outspoken and blunt personality that broke many of the rules set by the professional bodybuilding league. After many fines and suspensions, Priest received a lifetime ban from professional bodybuilding. He has since made it his mission to speak his truth regarding the sport of bodybuilding and the professional league - earning him a label as the dark horse of bodybuilding. For the first time ever, discover the life story and details of how Lee Priest went from bodybuilding's future to bodybuilding's rebel.

Les vieux copains

A foray into the unknown world of an emerging disease: environmental hypersensitivity.

Etienne Daho, a Modern Pop Itinerary

Educational film about the dangers of consumer deals that apepar too good to be true. It turns out they are! Includes "testimonials" from upset customers and tips on how to avoid being swindled.

At the start of the 20th century, just 10 percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today this figure already stands at 50 percent. By the end of this century, humanity will be an overwhelmingly urban species. The Urban Age has begun. But what should the cities of the future look like? How should they function? Urban planners are broadly in agreement that they should be green and efficient.

If what you know about male models comes straight from Zoolander, Pedro Andrade's special will give you a very different picture. It's a world of photo shoots and international travel, but there are also tiny models' apartments and even tinier paychecks.

In Sam Firth's essay film "Field Notes On Love" a romantic relationship between a filmmaker and an ecologist interweaves explorations of categorisation, individuality, and a collective 'us'. Human and nonhuman entanglements are enticingly allegorised amidst a lush Scottish woodland.

Seán Martin’s "Koan V" meditates on reeds filmed in close-up on the Scottish isle of Jura. With an accompanying quotation from Rebecca Solnit, an intersecting soundscape of subways, birds, folk musicians and chatter recorded in Prague suggests new possibilities between disparate sounds and images.

Marc Cartwright's "Orbital Discourse" places a myriad of vocal perspectives into – and allegorises them as – a pan of water. Cartwright's single-take film features plurality in close-up: its tensions, cacophonies, brutalities. Bring to the boil, then simmer.

Curtis Miller's "National Bird 2" confirms, in conclusion, that attempts to capture an overview of nature and landscape can result in unexpected intervention: a comical and humbling rejection of the codes and modes that define a human gaze.

The Backside of God is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist’s relationship with their familial, religious, and queer identity.

Army Art Theater

Edoardo Ponti interviews his mother, the Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren, in a show taped before a live audience at the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Story tells about Xiaodu from Qingshanzhai on Yuanbaoshan (in Guangxi). In order to continue the history of terraced fields and continue the incense of the Miao family, Xiaodu works hard to find a partner and to earn money.