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<p>A performance involving three artists (Bartlett, Klinkowstein, Tanbellini) who have never met, are in three different parts of the world (Holland, Canada, United States) and will try to work at the speed of a freeze frame.</p>
<p>Death takes center stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.</p>
<p>A pattern of pixels evolved into a continuous loop. An experience inspired by the first video arcade games, with a soundtrack produced by converting images into audio.</p>
<p>Antonio has to return to Ecija, a city in the interior of Andalusia, after a long time. It is Easter. There he is reunited with his family and his twin brother Javier who has a physical disability and needs his help. Antonio will have to deal with this situation and face a difficult decision: stay and help his family or return to the life he has built outside.</p>
<p>In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves her home in Poland and travels by herself to Belgium. Her perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.</p>
<p>Lines of text that describe what we see flickering on the screen. Pure image, pure sound, and words that enter our subconscious. And maybe stay there.</p>
<p>A dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics.</p>
<p>Featuring brilliant performances from Christopher Abbott and Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan, Christopher Andrews’ feature directorial debut chronicles a feud between neighbouring families in rural Ireland, drawing us to a world of desolate beauty and desperate men.</p>
<p>Restoration of a cult movie set in a post-apocalyptic world, embracing science-fiction ideas, where pornography springs from sexual frustration. This is Café Flesh, where in the aftermath of a nuclear event, 99% of the survivors can’t stand human touch and can’t have sex (the sex negatives). The minority, the sex positives, are placed in a position of entertainment for the rest, an erotic-musical theater. The imminent arrival of sex legend Johnny Rico tests a breaking couple.</p>
<p>A documentary readymade about family lore and chocolate biscuits.</p>
<p>A short film that takes us back to the nostalgic 1990s and the TV guide that accompanied the day’s broadcasts. Here, we follow a very bad day in the life of the CEO of a cable channel who sees her programming attacked by mischievous hackers.</p>
<p>In the summer of 1990, a teenage filmmaker successfully raises $100,000 to shoot a pioneering horror film. 25 years later, he tells the story of a cult classic that never was.</p>
<p>A translation game that takes Edwin Abbott Abbott’s novel Flatland into the world of digital image compression algorithms.</p>
<p>When we move house we want to make it our home. We bring our things, organize everything and the space becomes ours. But as the months go by in her new apartment, Daniela notices that her clothes are beginning to show strange shapes and holes. What could be causing this?</p>
<p>Together with her sister Justė’s family, Ernesta, her husband Lukas, and their son Kristupas are spending their weekend at a country house after her husband’s victory in a mixed-martial arts tournament.</p>
<p>A personal journey through fear and cinema that asks whether horror movies know us better than we know ourselves.</p>
<p>Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon’s grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, filmmaker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort myth from reality as he searches for the truth behind this fishy tale.</p>
<p>"Freak of Nature" is a stop motion animated short film about personal growth and the process of overcoming fear. A shy and lonely creature is too scared to leave the cage it once was trapped in until it finds a little seedling to care for. This is my graduation film.</p>
<p>On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay. Her mother, Nia, went into exile right after she was born and Nana grows up in the family of her father. One day, the family learns that Nia is ill. Nana begins to develop high fevers and is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment. There she encounters a world steeped in magical realism, between dreams and reality. Later, when Nana is a teenager, her mother Nia finally returns to the island.</p>
<p>When Fien discovers that her sister Hannah is threatened by a vicious crocodile that is making her very skinny and sick, her world is turned upside down. Fien enlists the help of Mum and Dad to join Hannah in defeating the crocodile, so that Hannah will make it to her next birthday.</p>
<p>The possibility of having a safe environment in which to have honest conversations about difficult or even taboo topics is essential. Here, Peter is a teacher who gives workshops dealing with sexual and religious issues and he allows his students the space they need to think, feel and talk.</p>
<p>A film with a very precise objective: to start from the visual noise of pixels and then find the beauty that lies within them. Made using an Atari Mega 2 ST and software created using Forth and Assembler.</p>
<p>Truck driver travelling along the Transamazonic Road, a huge highway in Brazil that crosses the Amazon forest, meets a prostitute and slowly becomes aware of the problems in that region.</p>
<p>The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press—but not by those in the dock.</p>
<p>The fortunes of a group of partisan after the triumph of the socialist revolution.</p>
<p>Every creature on this planet must move through life at the pace that is most convenient and pleasurable for them. This can be slow, like our snail, or faster, like a hare, a leopard or an ostrich.</p>
<p>Ben is a normal 12-year-old boy: he goes to school, plays in a band with his friends, and looks after a monkey with his veterinarian mother. But most of all, he likes food – both cooking and eating it. He ignores comments about his weight – until, that is, he is told it could cause serious health problems. What’s it like to grow up being called fat? And is a diet the answer for everything? Kristina Dufková’s feature-length stop-motion debut, based on Mikaël Ollivier’s novel <em>La Vie, en gros</em>, was shown at the Annecy film festival. Working with a sympathetic sense of humor, this sensitive family film characterized by a remarkable use of music and visuals explores the issue of childhood obesity without slipping into stereotyped views of the subject. </p>
<p>The fundamental questions of human life about guilt, repentance, and redemption are posed in the two documentary essay - about the grief of the women from Sliven Prison who give birth to their children behind bars. Binka Zhelyazkova diagnoses the public through the stories of her heroines. The film does not appear on the screens after their creation, but only after the changes in 1989.</p>
<p>A very hungry woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can't pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza? Is there anything that can be worthy of pizza, aside from what the market has decided? Together the two decide that their only option is to become the pizza object themselves, to make each other into pizza, in order to become free.</p>
<p>A poetic combination of audio and animation that come together in a vindicatory gesture in the face of an anti-consumerist struggle, where food is the tool of protest.</p>
<p>In a tale rooted in ancient Greek tragedy, a patriarch must decide the fate of his son and the boy he raised when a long-standing unneighbourly feud turns to murder.</p>
<p>Poet and artist Ross Sutherland and his parents were watching an episode of the British soap opera EastEnders when they were interrupted, and they never finished it. This film revisits that episode twenty years later.</p>
<p>Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.</p>
<p>A computer-film in three parts. The images consists of 8 to 14 independent elements. Each part has its own, formal starting-point. On this formal basis, variations are executed by gradual changes in position, direction, movement, velocity and colour of the elements.</p>
<p>We live in a post-optic world. Human vision is decentralized as (sole) base for knowledge production to make room for the nonhuman (machines, animals, plants). Yet, our worldview is based on optical information (“seeing is believing”!) and our visual culture leans heavily on old habits: affirming the human spectrum as the norm, celebrating the indexical qualities of the image. The post-optic, as Carolyn L. Kane coins it, is an extension ànd a challenge of vision rooted in optics. It's through algorithmic imagery that we gain the ability to see beyond our own visual limits. This expansion of perception allows us to step beyond a human-centric viewpoint to embrace wavelengths visible to machines and other species.<br /> One of the most vivid examples of this post-optic or algorithmic realm is the use of digital infrared technology. It transcodes invisible data into our visible world, expanding our visual territory. In contexts such as military strategies and facial recognition, digital infrared serves not only to make the invisible visible, but also to guide decision-making processes, silently participating in the invisible conversation that shapes our world.<br /> The memetic relationship of the optical world doesn’t exist in the post-optic; the relationship between the real world and its representation is constantly shaped by data and algorithmic processes. Digital infrared and ultraviolet images act as conduits, offering us reinterpretations of an unseen universe.<br /> The post-optic invites us to expand our parameters of normality and opens doors to the extrasensory.<br /> It can contribute to a shared and interconnected reality that fosters interactions between all entities - be they machines, humans or other entities.</p> <p>In this video I investigate the possibilities of a shared, inclusive timespace by exploring visual realms<br /> that are invisible to the (human) naked eye, but can be seen by machines and animals. Leveraging<br /> technology’s ability to re-imagine, boundaries are slowly shifting between human and nature. Norms<br /> are challenged in the close-ups of flesh-like trees, blood-like mountain streams and cyborg-humans.<br /> An ultra-soundscape accompanies an ongoing conversation with ChatGPT. (Martine Stig)</p>
<p>A crowd-funded, ten-hour unbroken shot of white paint drying on a brick wall, watched in its entirety by the UK's film censor board.</p>
<p>In December 2016, an armed man stormed a Washington D.C. pizza parlour in search of a non-existent child sex ring he'd read about online. What can his story teach us about knowledge, belief and the stories we choose to put our faith in?</p>
<p>This morning, Pompon is all shaken and excited: he had the dream of the Totem Tree! He has to go through the forest on his own and find the way to his very own tree. Eager to grow up, Pompon prepares for this enchanting initiatory journey.</p>
<p>A small bird tries to hunt down a small stone, causing a landslide, but also igniting an adventure. What begins simply enough, a bird drawn with simplicity in search of a stone, becomes something more complex that is transformed by new experiences.</p>
<p>In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge. With Sayoko's skillful guidance, the two get closer to the truth behind Albert's daughter's death, but it turns out that a mysterious cult and human traffickers are involved in the case. When they finally get close to the truth, Sayoko's real intention is revealed...</p>
<p>Rose, a little girl in Tehran, lives with her mother and her dog. She discovers that her neighbours are killing sheep. Her mother explains that the animals are being sacrificed in a traditional ritual where their meat is cooked and distributed among people. Rose considers it foolish to follow this old tradition in modern life. She decides to save the remaining sheep.</p>
<p>In this village, at night when they go to sleep, the children carelessly throw their slippers aside. In the morning, they disappear. The children’s parents explain that the Slipper Keeper Kitty has taken them. The children search for her in the forest, the Kitty returns the mended slippers — and they promise to be more careful.</p>
<p>An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while shedding light on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.</p>
<p>The sun sets, the eyes close. Rocking from one green leaf to the next, the little monkey gently falls asleep. But what happens next? The world of dreams is becoming darker, more colourful and wilder. Mysterious plants, creatures and shapes line the trajectory through the night.</p>
<p>Father and daughter, together on a trip over the treetops, on the high seas, but also in the deep ocean, on a bike ride for two, in a hot air balloon, always moving, even into space. But a different space, that of their memories.</p>
<p>In Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, someone tells an actor that 100 years from now he will come back to life whenever a reel of his work is projected. In this film, countless actors from all over the world come back to life, creating a cast of angels and ghosts. The film has a single 35mm print, incorporating natural wear and tear in each viewing, until it erodes definitively.</p>
<p>Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.</p>
<p>The titular bath takes place on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and is taken by an idiosyncratic group of friends who get together during the summer holidays for a celebration that has become a tradition. But like all traditions, its constant observance has turned it into a boring obligation. To deal with the discontent, there’s nothing better than testing the line between life and death. A recipe for the tragic and the oneiric. The second chapter of the Silence Trilogy.</p>
<p>In this film, Binka Jeliaskova returns to the universe of The Last Word (Poslednata Duma) for an incisive look at the prison system, now in a period far removed from the Second World War, in the middle of the Cold War, filmed before the fall of the Soviet regime. In The Bright and Dark Side of Things (Lice I Opuko), poverty is the motto for stories where you have to steal to survive, where violence is domestic and where children can be a saleable commodity.</p>
<p>A child goes carp fishing. But he has the bad idea of bringing his little dog with him. Between the puppy, a frog and a duck, it’s not easy to catch a fish…</p>
<p>A cow is lazily chewing its cud on a field. Tiny Toot pets its muzzle, which is soft and warm. The cow's drinking trough is empty, so Pixie finds a garden hose and fills up the trough so the cow can drink. A cow pat falls on Gato's head, so Tiny Toot and Pixie have to hose Gato clean before they can go home.</p>
<p>Debut movie from Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana in his musical facet. This movie, starring Yerai Cortés, revolves around a family secret that needs to be told.</p>
<p>The first crush is the deepest. The girls in this movie are growing up and discovering their power, and nothing could be more in keeping with the codes of the horror genre as female rebellion and sisterhood.</p>
<p>A community garden brought moments of happiness to an entire community. For Henry, it was a safe haven. If only they could decide on how to save the garden before it’s demolished.</p>
<p>The Last Word (Poslednata Duma) is a non-linear film that blends the past and present of a group of six women who are sentenced to death for their anti-fascist political struggle. One of the only films by Binka Jeliaskova to premiere in Portugal, in the summer of 1975 after a run in the Cannes Official Competition, it was also her most internationally recognized.</p>
<p>The boots lead our little boy to explore the surroundings of his house at night. He takes advantage of his parents’ distraction and goes on an adventure. But he encounters a lonely creature who may not let him return.</p>
<p>After digging a tunnel on the beach, two kids from different sides of the world meet each other. Together, they dig their way to the North Pole, where they discover a magical way to return home.</p>
<p>Tidying up toys isn’t the most fun part of the day, but with two little imaginary friends, Mathilde manages to turn this task into a real race to see who can tidy up the fastest. Ready, set, go!</p>
<p>Simultaneously the first film by Marva Nabili, in a stunning directorial debut, and the oldest surviving (in its entirety) Iranian film directed by a woman. In this 4K restoration, a young woman in pre-revolutionary Iran finds herself at a crossroads between tradition and the desire for freedom, where her refusal of marriage offers is equated by her family with possession by malevolent spirits.</p>
<p>The Swimming Pool portrays a triangle, one that plays with notions of love, desire, friendship and performance. The protagonists are a lonely widower, Apostol, who discovers Bella, a teenager disillusioned with her first love, on the night of her graduation. The harmonious balance is broken by the actor, Boyan.</p>
<p>A political allegory with unique imagery: a barrage balloon floats through the Bulgarian countryside, flying over village after village. The peasants who watch it or chase it make comments about the origin of such a powerful object, untethered from the surface. But the barrage balloon also comments from its point of view, seeing humanity as small and ignorant. The Bulgarian Communist Party saw the allegory as an attack on the state and banned the film.</p>
<p>Something’s stalking Andrea, but nobody, not even herself, can actually see it. Twenty years ago, 10,000 kilometres away, the same presence terrorised Marie. Camila was the only person capable of understanding what was happening to her, but nobody believed them. On taking a stand against that oppressive threat, all three women hear the same horrific sound. Wailing.</p>
<p>This film sets out to break with the sensation or experience of time in a linear way. Here, we see the future, the present and the past at the same time, in order to build patterns and rhythms that go beyond everyday human experience.</p>
<p>Opposites sometimes attract and that’s what happens when an indolent beetle meets a hyperactive ladybug. Together they form a parent/child relationship not unlike that of their fellow travelers, the humans Pauline and her parents. Let’s see who gets into more trouble.</p>
<p>Ada has moved with her husband to Hamburg and is well into her pregnancy. The American war correspondent of Polish descent finds herself a little adrift in her new country, until she receives a package that brings with it childhood memories and a mystery. Roksana is an old friend and has dedicated her now-published memoirs to Ada, in which she exposes the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. Roksana and Ada join forces on a painful adventure in search of answers to these deep wounds.</p>
<p>In this intense tale from provocateur Joel Potrykus, two friends embark on a disturbing mission in the Michigan woods. When their plan unravels, one must face the surreal and unsettling consequences back home.</p>
<p>Binka Jeliaskova makes her solo directorial debut with this love story set in Nazi-occupied Bulgaria, inspired by the author’s experience in the Partisan resistance, here mirrored in her experience of armed struggle in contrast to the blossoming of love. Winner of the main prize at the Moscow Film Festival, it was a blockbuster success in Bulgaria. The opening film in Mark Cousins’ documentary series Women Make Film, it’s considered the first Bulgarian feature film directed by a woman..</p>
<p>An oasis of beautiful plants and flowers in the middle of an ocean of weeds is put to the test when a storm threatens to infest all the work done by the Gardener. Can he fight off the elemental forces testing him?</p>
<p>A Pedro Almodóvar film from the crazy 1980s in which the Spanish director brings us one of his protagonists who he positions as an everyday heroine. Almodóvar likes to explore the chaotic inner lives of women, including those who work as housewives. In this movie, actress Carmen Maura is one of those women, who is addicted to amphetamines, lives with a husband who doesn’t love her, has two sons involved in bad stuff, an unbearable mother-in-law, and her best friend and neighbor is a sex worker. What follows, nobody deserves that.</p>
<p>Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy, unexpected and utter frenzy.</p>
<p>The audience is sitting in their seats, waiting for the performance to begin. Someone fiddles with their cell phone to turn it off, someone coughs in anticipation. Finally, silence and everyone paying attention. But is everyone really paying attention?</p>
<p>Yuck! Kissing on the mouth is disgusting. But secretly, little Léo really wants to try it ...</p>
<p>Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.</p>
<p>The difference between turmoil and harmony can be as little as 15 minutes, which is the time it takes for three children and two mothers to get home on a car journey. A sigh at the end.</p>
<p>Bobel is a mushroom, and a poisonous one at that. But that doesn’t stop him from dreaming of becoming a cook in his village — not that the locals are as keen.</p>
<p>Adilkhan Yerzhanov had his brilliant Steppenwolf at last year’s IndieLisboa and now returns with Cadet, with this film being a gesture that changes the pace from the dystopian westerns of the director’s past. Also returning is Anna Starchenko, who plays Alina, the mother of Serik, a shy boy who is bullied by his classmates and teachers in a military school where violence haunts every corridor.</p>
<p>A serene but complex film that begins with an investigation into the craftsmanship of the zampogna, a kind of bagpipe from Calabria, to expand into a more general overview of a series of local traditions, seven to be precise, from various regions of Italy — Calabria, Marche, Liguria and Sicily. A film that speaks of traditions that cross generations, with a delicate and contemporary gaze, so that certain musical expressions of the oral tradition survive.</p>
<p>A cult movie from 1971 that plays with the erotic and the terrifying and is now available in a restored format. Based on the legend of Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess who killed young women in the 16th and 17th centuries, Hary Kümel co-wrote and directed this film, which is set in a Belgian hotel by the sea, empty because it’s winter. A young newlywed couple (who should have chosen another location) meet a lesbian countess (played by Delphine Seyrig) and her apparent secretary, both shrouded in an air of mystery.</p>
<p>Presentation of the restored version of this cult but little-seen Spanish film which, despite its homoerotic disruption, slipped through the cracks of Franco’s censorship. Over the years, the film’s rediscovery has affirmed its importance for its contribution to the history of Spanish musicals and its representation of a non-normative sexuality. In Different, we follow Alfredo, a bon vivant who rejects the precepts of his wealthy family at the same time as they reject him. A eulogy to the pleasures of queer extravagance.</p>
<p>Ana, Malú and Martina already have a strategy in place: find some rich guys, seduce them, put them to sleep and steal their money. And as in other stories like this, they only have one last job to do. The target is an eccentric millionaire who manages cryptocurrencies. The plan goes wrong, the dosages are miscalculated and they discover that being alive is not necessarily the opposite of being dead. But being dead is perhaps the best time to discover love.</p>
<p>A movie that thinks of death, or rather life, as having an epilogue. Imagine that if using the ashes of someone who died and was dear to us, we could talk to them again, relive the moments we spent together and have a new perspective on the life we shared. That’s what happens to this husband, devastated by his wife’s death.</p>
<p>This film tells the story of rap music in Almada and Miratejo, one of the first major spots of this musical genre in Portugal. Guided by the protagonists who built and lived the movement intensively, we travel through their memories, stories, and inspirations to discover the great landmarks of this culture on the south banks of the Tagus River — built in a territory of demanding and politized working classes, with great cultural diversity in the post-Carnation Revolution.</p>
<p>Emily Wilson returns after her previous short, Danny’s Girl. This time, the protagonists are two sisters, Dinky and Flossy, who couldn’t be worse off. They need money and they need it now. And that means a visit to their father, who is suddenly looking very wealthy.</p>
<p>Carolina, Carlota, Clara and Constança are four sisters whose parents have insisted, every year, on taking the same picture. In Porto Santo beach, from 2003 to 2024, Clara Figueiredo narrates her childhood memories, which she associates to each of the pictures, reflecting upon the sisters.</p>
<p>A hungry fox fights for the last berry on top of the tree.</p>
<p>A short film that lets itself be carried away in a carefree and abstract dance focused on freedom of movement. We’re on a snow-white summit and the immaculate scenery is interrupted by the excitement of skiing down the mountain.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be magical to cure loneliness by creating an extraordinary friend? That’s exactly what happens here and one’ll need to be very careful to look after this companion.</p>
<p>A bear can be a very multifaceted and talented animal. In this movie, our bear is going to compose a song, but he won’t be alone: he has the help of many baby animals who are experts at making noise and creating sounds.</p>
<p>Guy comes across something unexpected while flying through the forest: a discarded box. But a dropped box can be used in many ways. Guy just has to choose one.</p>
<p>A sung and rhymed story that delights us with the more sinister aspects of nursery rhymes. One by one, four children enter a bucolic labyrinth and come face to face with their fears. Based on a horror ballad by Scottish poet Helen Adam.</p>
<p>Being in your 30s means having bills to pay and trying to climb the career ladder. But it’s also trying to be an exemplary child to the single parent who raised her. And for Cristine, it’s also about becoming a character who first belonged to a book and will now belongs to a movie. Reality and fiction and meta-fiction merge in this adaptation of Lavinia Braniște’s novel Interior Zero.</p>
<p>A visual memoir from director dream hampton's personal archives about the dawn of the golden era of hip hop</p>
<p>"In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place. This film contains strobe effects."</p>
<p>This captain wanders the sea in search of a particular orange lighthouse with a beautiful light. His search seems to come to nothing until the day he is surprised and something finally comes ashore. Now it’s up to him to decide whether he’s going to fulfill his dreams or not.</p>
<p>Nugget is a rooster without a voice and, therefore, unable to sing. When he discovers a squeaky toy, he thinks he’s found the solution — but will it be forever?</p>
<p>Sometimes we are afraid of things that seem worse than they really are. That’s what Lulina discovers when she turns the moon into her canvas, drawing problems that, when they come to life and she gets to know them, aren’t as terrible as she imagined.</p>
<p>From David Moreau, director of Ils e Seuls/Alone, a thrilling single-take chiller shot in five days in the Grand Est region of Northeastern France. A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman and the night takes a surreal turn with ferocious twists leading to a powerfully shocking climax. Ambitious visual effects, stunning cinematography, an innovative multi-character perspective and fresh performances from a cast of rising stars promise a unique and unforgettable experience for the audience.</p>
<p>Maya and her dad live in two different countries. To keep in touch with his daughter and keep telling her stories, every month her dad asks her: "Maya, give me a title". Based on this title, he creates a cartoon for her to star in. Michel Gondry then brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that will have the little ones dreaming, and the grown-ups smiling.</p>
<p>Milton Nascimento is a singer, a songwriter and a connoisseur of multiple instruments. Music is at the core of his being. He is also considered one of the most important Brazilian artists in its history, with musical partnerships (and friendships) with all of Brazil’s greats, and several Grammys to his name. The artist’s history and legacy are explored in this film, whose starting point is Nascimento’s farewell tour.</p>
<p>A variety of animals make up a lovely mobile. However, one cow is alone, for the sake of the balance of the whole. From her solitude, she sees that the other animals have company. When she manages to catch the attention of a mouse, she tries a weight redistribution maneuver — so that she has more friends.</p>
<p>Who wouldn’t want a tower of pancakes to devour? That’s what this mischievous trio thinks when trying to steal this delicacy from their friends. But things don’t work out the way they want!</p>
<p>A short film about people who have to make extraordinary efforts against the difficulties that life has thrown at them, however unusual they may be.</p>
<p>As avant-garde multihyphenate genius Meredith Monk approaches her final project, the immersive “Indra’s Net,” she and her greatest protégés and collaborators relive and reinterpret her storied career’s most enduring works.</p>
<p>Mr. Fragile is made up of a set of blocks and is perhaps more fragile than the rest of us. But he likes to do the same things as any other creature: like sleep, drink or go for a walk. But what if he’s missing a tooth, can the dentist help?</p>
<p>Why is the night changing the day? Well, when you don’t like something, you change it.</p>
<p>A childhood memory — a family vacation in the 1970s — is revisited when Moonjoo sees a version of herself meeting a younger version of her parents.</p>
<p>The final chapter of Binka Jeliaskova’s Silence Trilogy is also her last film, which was also her only foray into television and was originally divided into two episodes. The plot revolves around two very different girls, united by having the same name: Nadezhda (in English, Hope). But despite their different temperaments and goals, little by little, their dissimilarities fade and their roles reverse.</p>
<p>It’s not easy being a dragon in Dragonville, especially when that dragon is Samson, who is so bullied by his companions that he is forced to go to the land of humans. But it’s there that he meets Simon, whose friendship will give him the strength to change his life.</p>
<p>Orlando Pantera (1967-2001) was a gifted Cape Verdean musician who died at 33 before releasing his solo album. This film revives his legacy through innovative sound and archival material from his daughter. It features contemporary interpretations by artists like Mayra Andrade and Princezito, highlighting his lasting influence on musicians today.</p>
<p>In the early 90s, Portugal experienced its own dance music explosion. Raves of epic proportions and a new sound shaped what was then called: “Underground house music from a paradise called Portugal”. Featuring exclusive footage and interviews with DJs, producers, dancers, and promoters, the story unfolds to reveal the birth and evolution of Portuguese rave culture and its lasting influence on electronic music worldwide.</p>
<p>An elementary school sports day gets out of hand. A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers. The collective overload shakes an entire society and unfolds into a microcosm of chaos. The cause and effect of violence reverberate in a fragile social construct. A distant view of the everyday.</p>
<p>Juan is on the beautiful mountain of La Sarna trying to make a documentary when two events lead him to confront serious topics: on the one hand, the discovery of a violent event related to the place, and on the other, the progressive loss of his sight.</p>
<p>Against the backdrop of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, filmmaker Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown in Mashhad to help her parents move house. Despite living abroad and not wearing a hijab regularly for many years, whenever she returns to Iran and is in the company of her religious extended family, she wears it. However, on this occasion she wants to force a change. With intimacy and honesty, the filmmaker embarks on a delicate journey towards lasting change.</p>
<p>Spring is in the air, and Nicolau has just turned twenty-four years old, but he doesn’t feel like throwing a big party. He is beginning to sense that his dream of being a professional musician is falling apart, he still lives with his parents, and he pines for his former girlfriend. Though he lacks the energy to move forward, fate throws several opportunities his way to take control of his life again. With his debut feature – a sun-drenched Lisbon tale about the carefree naiveté of youth that brings to mind the films of Rohmer – João Rosas follows on not just his shorts Entrecampos (2012), Maria do Mar (2015), and Catavento (2020), in which he depicted Nicolau’s childhood and adolescence, but also the legacy of earlier Portuguese auteur filmmakers.</p>
<p>In this genre-hopping road movie from Daughters of Fire director Albertina Carri, Violeta, the director of an amateur lesbian porn hit, is invited to make a mainstream crossover. With a budget and cast, but no firm idea where to go, the crew head off on a road trip in search of their perfect film.</p>
<p>“Where do you call home?” was the question faced by nearly 3,000 Spanish children exiled in the Soviet Union during the Spanish Civil War. This film tells the story of Angelita Perez, who lived in Russian boarding schools from ages 4 to 24 until completing her medical studies. It’s a tale of resilience, love, and identity, intertwining past and present. It also explores the bond between a mother and daughter through shared songs and stories.</p>
<p>The Chilean artist and filmmaker Martín Baus assembles a political object that can be found below and to the left, in the same place where Latin America is located (if we place Europe in the centre of the map). Guerrilla radio broadcasts, voices from Godard’s first film or photographs of the Ecuadorian tropical forest compose his resistant found footage, a cocktail of old sounds and slogans that reverberates in contemporary times.</p>
<p>As she ages, Oma's perception begins to change. Feeling that her mother can no longer live alone, a woman returns to her childhood home. While trying to adapt to their new situation, her mother seems to withdraw further into herself. Maria Trigo Teixeira makes her debut at Curtas with an animation that premiered worldwide at the prestigious Annecy festival.</p>
<p>Sara loses her brother due to complications from the Covid-19 virus, starting a journey where she looks for a traditional burial that respects the memory of her brother and the Cape Verdean culture. In a world silenced by the pandemic, Sara will find her mourning in forgotten communities. An ode to life.</p>
<p>Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite risks.</p>
<p>Ari, a young teacher, quits his job and is thrown out of the house by his father. Lost and alone, he reconnects with old friends, triggering a journey of self-discovery.</p>
<p>Ariel is a play-within-a-play on film, about an Argentine actress who sets ashore a strange and enchanting island where its inhabitants have transcended into Shakespearian characters. Lois Patiño adorns his latest feature with sparkling waterscapes and enchanting terrains that are seemingly possessed by otherworldly energies.</p>
<p>Armand a 6-year-old boy is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.</p>
<p>As seasons change over the course of a year, a square in the center of Lisbon shifts. Repetition is observed through the four windows of a street kiosk.</p>
<p>In the path between the house and the church, doubt has settled. Clinging to the faint memory of the faith that once was certain, a nun repeats barren and mechanical rituals, hoping for different outcomes. In her involuntary penitence, risking the profane, she seems to fear both the abyss of mourning and the luminous power of ecstasy.</p>
<p>The Mercedes Benz 300 SLR is the most expensive car ever sold. But how was the value of this car collectively imagined? Is it a coincidence that this Benz was released the same year as the Benzo? What is the meaning of the idea of Pamela Anderson? Sara Cwynar drops us into the churning thoughts of her interior infinite scroll, endless search terms and fantasies about capitalist fantasies.</p>
<p>When her boyfriend’s constant complaints (tinged with narcissism that makes her feel invisible) leave her bursting with anger, Laura has to dosomething to get out of this situation where even the landscape is bleak.</p>
<p>You are about to die. Your death rite of choice is Celestial Bridging. In Black Hole Descending the boundaries between life and death blur as this obscure ritual unfolds.</p>
<p>Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, , leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time.</p>
<p>With Beatrix (FID 2021), their first feature film, Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner had already demonstrated the subtlety of their art of portraiture, through the attention they paid to the most tenuous gestures, to ways of being, of inhabiting a space, a place. In this second feature film, they focus our attention on two young women, Errol and Sacha, in their twenties. We will know little about them. The film, anchored in their daily lives, leads from situation to situation, just sketched, perceived in fragments, without salient events, seeming to belong to the ordinary of a life apparently without history. "Are you crazy, are you normal, are you weak?" questions in the form of a prologue the magnificent trio of elderly women who punctuate the film like an ancient choir, offering their commentary. From gestures to situations left hanging, through an elliptical montage, bluish lets us glimpse their inner movements as if in dotted lines, showing each of our two protagonists facing their own hesitations, their own enigma. Growing up? Becoming an adult, finding a place to be oneself. And creating one's own self-image. A moment in life, bathed in the blue of the title: that of the city in winter, that of the virtual world that punctuates the film as if echoing their questions. That also of their feelings, of this nuanced atmosphere in which the film is bathed. Nicolas Feodoroff</p>
<p>Based on true events, we follow Vera, Madalena, Conceição and Gabriela, victims of domestic violence in a shelter. Together, they rediscover their place as they try to gain the independence and security to start their lives anew. Each episode is dedicated to one of the women and also to Joana, the psychologist who works with them. These are personal and unique testimonies of women who are not limited to the dramatic situation in which they find themselves, without ever being able to forget it.</p>
<p>The film is set across the first two decades of the 21st century and tells the story of how a Chinese woman lives to herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance. Some 22 years in the making, the film’s first elements were shot as far back as 2001.</p>
<p>It’s Autumn. A young woman and an older man travel by train to Douro, looking for a light phenomenon. They wait during the day but it’s in the silence of the night that things starts to appear. The invisible becomes visible, but is it still possible to believe?</p>
<p>Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is an ordinary person, who supports himself by reselling things on the internet. He carelessly earns grudges by people around him and, in the end, he is dragged into a desperate struggle that risks his life.</p>
<p>A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.</p>
<p>Yoni is his own worst enemy. Wandering around the merchant district of Buenos Aires with his mentor, Leon, trying to get by with a bit of smuggling, he’ll realize that blind loyalty can be the element that clips his wings.</p>
<p>Evoking the human, the organic and the extraordinary, Raw+Porous is a story of obsessive love and a surreal entropy of surroundings between two people who give themselves over to absolute desire.</p>
<p>Suzana is stuck in the past, unable to get over the loss of a loved one and live her life without that hurt.</p>
<p>For Júlia, life in Glasgow is a way of starting fresh, of creating something that is hers alone, without interference from her family, from those she knows, from her history so far. But her brother, in Barcelona, wants to maintain the bridge that unites them. And bridges are Julia’s favorite thing to photograph, until her eyesight begins to fail.</p>
<p>João stars in a biopic about Liberada, a gender-nonconforming figure persecuted by the Inquisition. After the director is mysteriously paralyzed, João faces haunting dreams and struggles to honor Liberada’s story.</p>
<p>David is a shy sculptor who accepts a friend’s invitation. Her summer house might be the ideal place to read. But David discovers more than he bargained for, including that the world exists when you step out of your bubble.</p>
<p>Inside several narrow and crowded stores with different crafts, we follow the gestures of care, the relationship between material and hand, and the trained technique of renovation.</p>
<p>Between the Sea and the Island is a search, an autobiographical archaeology, an essay on the relationship between an island son and his father and the sea. And there are endless layers, thoughts and memories in this space-time “between” this sea and this island.</p>
<p>A film about distance, loss and the fragility of life symbolized through a garden that fell and a sea that swallowed it up.</p>
<p>A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.</p>
<p>Shot 25 years ago, this intimate and raw documentary reveals a relationship in conflict as filmmakers Jay Rosenblatt and Stephanie Rapp capture emotionally charged moments. The couple grapples with the decision to have a child, confronting the profound implications of pregnancy, especially for a woman who feels ambivalent yet is faced with a ticking biological clock. HEARTBEAT explores situations that many couples experience but rarely share, sparking important conversations—particularly in a time when reproductive justice is under attack.</p>
<p>Spring is a time of renewal. Nature emerges from a period of hibernation to strut forth in all its splendor. In southern Italy, in Basilicata, this moment is celebrated with a tree-like dance, in which humans join hands with the natural world to jointly achieve something sublime.</p>
<p>Returning to her hometown—the eponymous planned community, oriented around a factory—Danielle Dean alloys fiction and documentary, collective memory and autobiography, amid a hail of meteorites. Borrowing from Quatermass II, a midcentury science-fiction thriller shot in Hemel Hempstead as it was still being built, her film renders small-town xenophobia and corporate drudgery in the heightened tenor of an alien invasion plot.</p>
<p>At just 15 years old, Lois embarks on an investigation to discover the fate of her sister, who died tragically and too soon. In the heart of Arkansas, daring to ask is daring to hope.</p>
<p>Hurikán rushes to save his favorite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.</p>
<p>Hanna missed her train. Her destination was a DJ event in Berlin with whom she's been flirting. Now she has to take a car trip that raises many questions, including whether all middle-aged men are a little perverted.</p>
<p>André lives in constant apathy. He sleeps during the day and works in a warehouse at night. Armando rejects all of his son’s attempts to approach him. André mimics his father in the relationship with Júlia.</p>
<p>Anyone who has never strolled along the paths and graves of the Père-Lachaise cemetery while dreaming of Gothic novels and masochistically listening to “Tous les garçons et les filles” until discovering a drawing of a particularly intriguing couple can cast the first stone.</p>
<p>The autobiography of Koki, an immortal parrot. Artist Quenton Miller portrays the life of this unique animal, a loyal comrade of Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years. A rich photographic archive relives the caged memories of this cockatoo, who had the honour of meeting Hollywood stars, and bloodthirsty dictators. A funny portrait, non-aligned with the documentary orthodoxy, that deals with the false constructions of history.</p>
<p>During a dynastic crisis in 14th century Portugal, the 10 year old Beatriz enters into a forced marriage to become the country’s new queen. At the Monastery of Sancti Spiritus in Toro, where the tomb of Beatriz is located, this story is re-enacted, re-imagined, and recreated with children of the same age. As their imagination is allowed to roam free, a different way to interact with their country’s history opens up.</p>
<p>Candice's life takes an explosive turn as she undergoes daily detonations for three months, peaking at seven blasts in one day, accumulating a staggering 192 explosions.</p>
<p>A weary radio host encased in her headphones, Gal·la, plays Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 in F minor, interrupted by a child in a karate uniform. After the studio she reads a story to help him sleep, though no one quite manages. Encountering a stranger, the three begin a new broadcast that beams from their room. Sound is the main preoccupation of La nostra habitació, it encloses, intrudes, draws together and sets free.</p>
<p>Songs of whales, bird calls of Cory’s shearwaters, transatlantic letters, radio signals. The short film Water Tongue reflects on the many so-called “more-than-human” forms of communication on Earth. Mariana, who is Azorean, and Stella, who is in Lisbon, communicated over long distance, having later traveled and filmed together in the Azorean Archipelago. Across the distance between the islands and Lisbon, they created a voice-over dialogue. Their reflections unfold as a kind of ‘road movie’ through the archipelago, forming a more-than-human polyphonic orchestra where human and non-human voices share an equal stage.</p>
<p>Found footage is a cherished subgenre of horror cinema. Here, it’s a documentation of when a birthday party suddenly found itself without salt. “Gonna party like it’s 1991”.</p>
<p>A beautifully colored animation that explores a mother’s absolute and total need to get rid of her husband and children to have a playful afternoon to herself, in pursuit of a roe deer.</p>
<p>2055. Steevyshady, an overly botoxed Youtuber tells their idol’s mad destiny: we follow pop diva singer Mimi Madamour from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a downfall brought about by her love story with punk icon Billie Kohler. For half a century these drama queens have sung their passion and their rage high upon a stage.</p>
<p>In the 16th century, in a forest in the Cévennes in France, peasant women from many regions band together to fight the enclosure of common lands. A few centuries later, construction in the forest is under the watchful eye of Annie, a solitary 75-year-old night watchwoman.</p>
<p>Urzelina is a half-hearted level crossing keeper. In the middle of the day, she drinks a cup with half milk, half coffee and eats half a toast. It is also in the middle, between the past and the present, that her days are spent in service of the railway line. One day, something different happens in her routine.</p>
<p>A film looking at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy’s point of view. A companion to ‘American Dreams (lost and found)’ (1984)</p>
<p><em>Little, Big, and Far </em>is a hybrid feature film with a focus on astronomy, physics, and natural history museums. The main character, Karl, is an Austrian astronomer and dark sky advocate, at a crossroads in life and work. At 70, with jobs at risk and his physicist wife distancing, he and his colleague, Sarah, also struggle with the environmental crises reshaping their fields. After a museums conference in Greece, Karl decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a dark enough sky to reconnect with the stars. Left on his own at a remote mountain trail, he ascends and waits for darkness to fall.</p>
<p>A film about surviving something that didn’t go as expected. Manuel is going through a break-up with Camila, and, at the same time, he has to rethink the whole artistic project that has been his focus for the last few years. To give Camila space to pack, he leaves for a seaside location, where he continues his preoccupation with recording sounds of all kinds. His inertia about the future will be challenged by something extraordinary that happens to him on the beach.</p>
<p>Lola is the older sister of Simon, aged 5, who lives in a world of his own. By observing him, she notices how sensitive he is to small, hidden sounds. With her friend Rolih, she decides to build a noise machine to communicate with him.</p>
<p>Despite the surveillance cameras and security checks at the airport, a group of activists succeed in carrying out their diabolical plan.</p>
<p>A film of electric sonic and visual rhythms, Karimah Ashadu’s Machine Boys is one part 21st-century Scorpio Rising and one part incisive micro-ethnography. Intimately capturing Lagos’s sub-economy of motorcycle taxis—known locally as “Okada”—Ashadu zooms in on both the thundering, tricked-out machines and the bodies of the riders, whose performances of masculine bravado mask the precarity of their dangerous and illegal livelihoods.</p>
<p>With Rizal’s MAKAMISA: Pantasma ng Higanti, Khavn De La Cruz delivers a monster of a film, both epic and highly personal, radical as is his wont, part pamphlet, part historical saga, part intimate novel, part parable. The setting? The Philippines in the late 19th century, between two forms of colonialism, Spanish and American. The starting point is a text, Makamisa, the outline of a novel left unfinished in the 1890s by the poet and revolutionary José Rizal – a veritable national treasure – in which he denounced religious abuse and oppression. Passed through Khavn’s caustic and furiously political filter, the result is a film that looks like a fresco from the early days of cinema, a little like Griffith’s – without the extras, but with the excess. The figures could have stepped straight out of a genre film, somewhere between a zombie movie and a Western set in a fantasy universe. The fable follows the agonies and torments of a malevolent priest (Khavn himself) and Rizal the poet as they vie for the favours of a poor woman, Crazy Sisa. An intense nightmare, for which Khavn has meticulously reworked each image by hand (colours and scratches), giving the movie the shaky effect of an old film reel that was forgotten, or that fell into the hands of a scratch fanatic. A not-so-distant past is thrown into sharp relief, with obvious echoes in today’s Philippines – and far beyond. An otherworldly soundtrack by David Toop, Khavn and the Kontra-Kino Orchestra lends a gloomy tone to this firebreak against today’s political crises.</p>
<p>Portugal, 1872. The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, travels to Porto and stays at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, owned by Maria Henriqueta de Mello Lemos e Alvelos. Today, the attempt to make a film about this episode becomes an invocation. Maria Henriqueta is with us. Memories, sounds, and sensations invade the screen and contribute to constructing an emotional geography of our invisible protagonist. It's a phantasmagoria of the senses. A good ghostly experience.</p>
<p>A renowned emblem of Portuguese interventionist theater, the Cornucópia tear appeared in fascist obscurity to combat the dictatorship on stage. Among the classics, a project is born and dies, but one face remains iconic: Luís Miguel Cintra, who shared his art with the permanent complicity of a filmmaker, Solveig Nordlund. Together, they organize their drawers, guided by images, traces and testimonies of the protagonists who survived this History.</p>
<p>Adrian Paci’s sensitive gaze enters an aluminum transformation plant to explore the relationship between the workers’ bodies and the factory environment, celebrating the enduring value of labour. Through meticulous observation and perfectly composed framing, Merging Bodies delves into gestures and materials that blur the boundaries between the workers and the machinery. Paci’s hypnotic camera captures details that transcend the immediate context, liberating the visible from a singular interpretation.</p>
<p>Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.</p>
<p>Tired of poverty and hunger, 31 young Cape Verdeans, including one woman, embark on an adventure to Cuba in a secret operation to receive military training to free the country from the clutches of colonialism.</p>
<p>Camille Anker takes us on a road movie where we, like the protagonist, sit in the passenger seat. But instead of looking out of the window and enjoying the journey, she just wants to get to her destination. The driver endeavors to stretch out the time in the car.</p>
<p>A comic look at someone who no longer feels like they belong to the same things they used to, whether it’s a house or a group of friends. What remains between doubt and longing? Hope.</p>
<p>The American collective Omnes Films (Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus) explores stories in a hypnotic way, without slipping into classic Hollywood tropes. It’s independent cinema looking for a way to make movies in which the present moment is all that exists. Here, several characters anticipate a hurricane, in a suspended state in which the worst can happen — or not.</p>
<p>Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him. Only the next morning, while playing his trumpet, does he find his place in the stillness of the soft early light.</p>
<p>Nuno, a young man who tries to understand how his destiny is connected with his long-dead uncle’s story, Nuno, who he never met.</p>
<p>In the near future, the elderly must relocate to remote retirement colonies so that the younger generations can go about their work undisturbed. The 77-year-old Tereza refuses and instead embarks on a life-changing journey through the Amazon.</p>
<p>This handyman’s work is not recommended for children under 18.</p>
<p>Cathon proudly shows off her new glasses. Iris is at a loss for words—she’s speechless with admiration. Where do eyeglasses even come from, and how did people first get them to stay on their noses?</p>
<p>What I saw when the ultrasound was shown to me, I couldn’t believe. Inside my uterus there were hundreds of tiny creatures, shaped like spiders, but of flexible and tender body.</p>
<p>Olivia and The Clouds explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds.</p>
<p>On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.</p> <p>A comedy-drama exploring human relationships in Zambia and Guinea.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Organza is an artist, but even in space, it’s hard to live off one’s art. The difficulties compound and the solution seems to be only one: revenge. But revenge can be a journey along which one meets creatures that point to another possible destination.</p>
<p>A Spanish-French television miniseries — created by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sara Cano and Paula Fabra — The New Years corresponds to the New Year but also to the birthdays of Óscar and Ana, who turn 30 on the 31st and 1st respectively. They meet, fall in love and their very different lives become intertwined. The series follows their lives for 10 years.</p>
<p>In José Filipe Costa’s potent, occasionally satirical character study, António de Oliveira Salazar’s political life has reached its end, after four decades as the head of Portugal’s military regime. It’s a fact known and acknowledged by everyone, except the dictator himself…</p>
<p>An immersive sensory journey through the bustling streets of Barcelona’s old town, where time, space, and human presence intertwine in unexpected ways. The film captures the tension between the sensory overload of the modern world and the slow, deliberate pace of analog filmic expression.</p>
<p>Mateus and Irene plan to celebrate their wedding anniversary at a tropical retreat, but are separated on the eve of their departure, and forced to question their relationship and how they relate to their troubled son, in this enigmatic and strikingly beautiful third feature from Sandro Aguilar.</p>
<p>Feed the monster, have a cup of tea, and if it's your first day - don't pay attention to anything peculiar in Sector 3.<br /> Nick shows a new worker around the crumbling Progress Mining Company, while Mary tries to get it shut for repairs.</p>
<p>In the village of Dine, in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, solitude deepens when, under cover of night, dogs bark outside and confirm that the cave has been stormed into.</p>
<p>A Lisbon night is traversed by the intensity of René, a precarious young Brazilian who has anchored in town, immersed in personal and existential conflicts. Queer parties, love, rejection and loneliness move through her body, out of place between the two continents.</p>
<p>A fiction that imagines anxiety as literal explosions of light, surging out of one’s body. Tonight’s anxiety, this girl’s, is linked to her interrupted pregnancy.</p>
<p>In 1998, two high school girls sent a letter to the first-ever women’s newspaper in Iran.</p>
<p>A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.</p>
<p>Tangled spirals, rapid encounters, a quiet war between the vertical and the horizontal: Simon Liu’s Refuse Room captures Hong Kong’s architectural densities and lurid fluorescence through shadows, graffiti, and detritus, surfacing the tense and dizzying atmospheres of a city in anxious slumber, caught between fragmentation and solidarity.</p>
<p>An intimate view of the director’s relationship with the knowledge of why his father died, a truth that was hidden from him and then altered over the years, until it was revealed during a family member’s drunken moment.</p>
<p>The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.</p>
<p>A man recounts his capillary peregrinations through his adolescence from trauma at the barbers to his first love, then to the loss of his hair and eventually the loss of his father. Through this journey, we see a construction of masculinity in the making.</p>
<p>In this love story, a young couple faces an uncertain future between Africa and Europe. When they reunite in Lisbon, sharing a house with other immigrants, farness and closeness will test their relationship.</p>
<p>Roadways and expressways. The train tracks. What remains of the factories, the wastelands. The clouds, the rain, and the wind. The river. A film about a suburb of Lisbon. The suburb where I was born and raised. The streets and interiors: houses, businesses, and associations. A film of pathways and details. A few work notes suggest that the film is looking for its own structure. The music? A suburban symphony. Somewhere between the praise of banality and an elegy of time.</p>
<p>An isolated island of rocks and deserted landscapes, abandoned by humans due to the overexploitation of its resources. Yet, the island is not as desolate as it appears. Traces of human presence linger, their shadows and souls imprinted on the terrain.</p>
<p>On the side of the road, in a quaint Cuban town, stands a funeral home in which Maurilio and Fidela, partners in work as in life, have been preparing corpses for the past seventeen years. With quietly affectionate humour, María Salafranca takes us on an offbeat tour of this discreet establishment where death and love intertwine on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Wandering through disillusioned Portuguese landscapes, a man reflects on the ruins of his love. Multiple voices, reading fragments of his diary, share his restlessness and vulnerability.</p>
<p>In Zachary Epcar’s Sinking Feeling, human bodies and voices are counterposed with the shimmering abstractions, ambient fizzle, and rigid linearity of corporate architecture. A disquieting glimpse into a post-post-modernity of dread and torpor, Sinking Feeling peels back the surfaces of these Ballardian non-places to release pent-up fluids, a stifled longing, a hidden radiance.</p>
<p>Starting from the trail of a bullet captured on CCTV, Soixante-sept millisecondes follows the trajectory of the shot and those of its key protagonists. Through a reconstruction combining computer-generated images with surveillance footage and the story of a victim, the film forcefully questions the legitimacy and excesses of law enforcement in France.</p>
<p>Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored stiff and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to stay in a dingy motel with her cousin Jess, who slouches in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of an eminent researcher in collapsology predicts the imminent end of the world. The pool is empty, the sun is beating down and the tension is mounting: the ecological apocalypse announced on the airwaves suddenly becomes real.</p>
<p>The refugee, the fled, the persecuted. The hidden, the migrant, the foreigner. The newcomer, seen with distrust, looks of fear and suspicion. In this evocative sand animation by filmmaker Pedro Serrazina, shadows, contrasts and a disturbing sound construction relive ancestral prejudices of the other, so ancient and so present. Clandestine words, whispered phrases, memories written on winter nights by candlelights.</p>
<p>Following the Q&A of The Afterlight at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the audience is invited to join the filmmaker on a walking tour towards the Rank Room at Cinema São Jorge for an intimate happening marking the conclusion of the epic installation Paint Drying.</p>
<p>Living alone in the highest mountains of Portugal, Carlos has spent years writing letters to his beloved late wife, suspended in a time that no longer exists. His solitary world is disrupted when a filmmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious lake, stumbles upon him. What begins as a chance encounter soon evolves into a deep, yet fleeting friendship. To her, Carlos slowly reveals the depth of his grief, his memories, and his inner abyss. In their shared moments, the boundaries between their lives blur, offering both a glimpse of healing amidst the shadows of longing.</p>
<p>A story in which the Stone of Destiny is not just a plot device or MacGuffin, but the main character. In this case, the Stone of Destiny wants to discover its own, well, destiny. A musical about finding one’s way.</p>
<p>Seeking asylum in Ireland is difficult in the face of various hostile forces: from the very policy that provides (or prevents) asylum, to the xenophobic mentality that is proliferating.</p>
<p>Janica is a young woman who arrives in a small town and gets a job in a restaurant owned by the welcoming Miočić family. However, the feeling of welcome soon turns into a feeling of paranoia.</p>
<p>Living in a small village or town has its drawbacks. One of them is seeing things not go as expected, when little changes, or those you know leaving for new adventures. In the end, what’s left?</p>
<p>A seasoned performer must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Starring Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Dave Bautista.</p>
<p>A family of four and their dog make their way to a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing Buddha statues.</p>
<p>Returning from a vacation, a girl notices a boy and her world opens up a little more. Maybe this is what it means to grow up.</p>
<p>Karen and Markus live with their kids in Karen's childhood home, nestled in the countryside. On Markus's birthday, Karen's sister Jule arrives with her family. The sisters are complete opposites. Haunted by memories of their late mother, Jule feels driven to challenge Karen's authority. As the house fills up, Karen’s tension grows until everything explodes into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to make way for the new.</p>
<p>Clickworkers in Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines talk about their working day: they edit and label countless images of traffic on US streets to be used as training material for self-driving cars.</p>
<p>The kiosk window doesn’t just sell news (or cigarettes), it also receives news, or small talk, or unending complaints. Life can be seen through this window, in all its glory and avarice.</p>
<p>Speaking your mother tongue is a good way to maintain a connection with your culture. But, if that fails, perhaps other means can be used, such as learning more about a fish and its history.</p>
<p>Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.</p>
<p>António wakes up to find an exact replica of himself floating inanimate in the pool. Without explanation, he and his family try to deal with the confusion, mistrust and a sense of mourning that settles in between them. Between absurdity and conflict, life goes on, undisturbed, as if not much had changed.</p>
<p>One day, then another, a worker in an automated factory does his job and forgets his past. The factory fails. Accuses. He runs away. One day, but then another, the man sees through his memory to a disconcerting reality.</p>
<p>In 1945, the Okinawa caves offered the population shelter from the bombs and the US troops’ arrival. Kaori Oda’s film works in different visual layers, superimposing oral memory culture over historical wounds. The past casts shadows over the present.</p>
<p>Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.</p>
<p>Benjamin and Little Pierre, cousins and local policemen, patrol Vitrival while listening to Radio Chevauchoir. They have a lot to do: dick graffitis are popping up on the village walls. Of course, no one has seen or heard anything. At the same time, a villager commits suicide, then two, then three.</p>
<p>After hitting a dog with his car, Stefan, guilt-ridden, decides to bring it with him to the hometown lake, where he is headed in order to complete the film about his mother who has recently passed away</p>
<p>At his first practice with the new football team, Jonas meets Niklas. After a party, they end up at Niklas’ house. Cuddled up, the two friends fall asleep. Their closeness does not go unnoticed. The team wins the next game, but the distance between them seems insurmountable.</p>
<p>Hanka visits her lonely grandfather and everything is a trip back in time, including the act of eating homemade preserves. But to talk about the past is also to confront the present.</p>
<p>In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.</p>
<p>As New Year's break is coming, Zhili's textile workshops are almost deserted. The few remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their trip home. From the banks of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Yunnan, everyone will be celebrating the festivities in their hometown, and performing the rituals of prosperity among their families. For Shi Wei, it’s also the opportunity to get married, as it is for Fang Lingping. Her husband, a former IT specialist, will have to follow her in Zhili after the ceremony. Learning is hard, but does not hinder the advent of a new generation of workers.</p>
<p>The latest epic work of observational nonfiction from Wang Bing furthers the filmmaker’s ongoing chronicle of the economic, social, and personal upheavals happening across a transforming China. Deepening the intimacy with which he captures communities of people living amidst financial struggle and toiling for little money in exploitative conditions, <em>Youth (Spring)</em> is a remarkable account of rural migrant workers employed in textile factories in Zhili, a town outside Shanghai. Over the course of five years, Wang follows various groups of people, most of them in their twenties, as they labor over their clothes-making, interact in the cramped dormitories where they live after hours, bargain (often fruitlessly) for better wages, and create emotional bonds and relationships with one another. As the title suggests, this film is specifically about the lives of the young, forcefully and humanely depicting—with its director’s customary patience and unassuming formal rigor—the consequences of the country’s rapid growth on the minds and bodies of a new generation of workers.</p>
<p>A movie that combines fiction and reality to tell the story of an Indigenous woman, the director’s grandmother, and the tree she planted, whose fruit is the jackfruit — and both are seen in the same way, as something undesirable.</p>
<p>What is the meaning of "memory" in the digital age? For humans memory consists of subjective images of past events, for computers memory refers to an objective capacity to store information. The film compresses 10 human years in 10 megabytes of binary information and employs an aesthetics of the small file format, a counter strategy against the ever increasing resolution, bitrate and cost of digital images. The file was compressed and assembled with open-source software ffmpeg, the original Video8 tapes were left unedited.</p>