IndieLisboa 2023

“Years ago, I was working on a movie…”

Marion Naccache

<p>Years ago, director Marion Naccache got lost in New York City traffic with Tom Jarmusch, brother of Jim Jarmusch, who is also connected to cinema. At the wheel, Tom rambles on about his many stories of the independent cinema of the 90&rsquo;s in which he worked, the people he met and the many transformations of the city. That meeting between these two friends of different generations and nationalities does not have a destination that is revealed to us, and we soon realize that the traffic that takes them along is what allows us to spend more time in their company. So we are in no hurry: as long as there is traffic we can follow all those stories and the tender lights of the city. A documentary of delight and colorful hearts.</p>

1976

Manuela Martelli

<p>Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.</p>

2Heim (2018)

Eva Claus

<p>A house in Vienna became a home that will soon be abandoned, these being the last days, which pass by in the blink of an eye.</p>

45th Parallel

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

<p>A monologue is performed in a building that inhabits the thickness of a borderline, telling stories of permeable borders and impermeable laws, reflecting on how free movement, free knowledge and free space are under threat.</p>

5 mètres 80 (2012)

Nicolas Deveaux

<p>It is not possible to imagine a more graceful animal jumping from a board to a swimming pool than a giraffe and the ones in this film present us with the most acrobatic of jumps.</p>

A Almadraba Atuneira

António Campos

<p>An ethnographic documentary in the form of a tribute to the work of the Algarve tuna fishermen, and their families, during the last &ldquo;almadraba&rdquo; on the island of Ab&oacute;bora, before the village was destroyed by the sea.</p>

A Folded Ocean

Benjamin Brewer

<p>A couple get lost in each other.</p>

A Game with Stones

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Clocks and stones in a symphony to the sound of a xylophone, in a stop motion animation in black and white.</p>

A History of the Film Spectator

José Filipe Costa

<p>Normally, the spectator is thought of as being in a situation of passivity in relation to what is happening on the screen, but this film wants to deepen this idea: what types of spectators do we become? How has the relationship between spectator and screen evolved? What&rsquo;s the history that can be traced?</p>

A History of the World According to Getty Images

Richard Misek

<p>This thought-provoking short film examines the meaning of the term &ldquo;public domain,&rdquo; and what happens to images whose copyright has expired and theoretically become freely available to all. Why is it that this type of image so often falls into the hands of commercial organizations such as Getty Images, which then requires payment to use them? What are the implications of putting images of historical events behind a paywall?</p> <p>Archive footage of events such as the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster and the US atom bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in the 1940s and 50s are etched into our collective memory. This documentary argues that such images should not be held hostage by profit-motivated parties. It&rsquo;s a philosophy that the film itself puts into practice, ingeniously liberating this footage from the grip of commercial interests.</p>

A Quiet Week in the House

Jan Švankmajer

<p>There is a dilapidated house in the countryside that has become the obsession of a man who decides to spend a week there, trying to peek into the various corners of the house and the surreal way in which the objects that inhabit it behave.</p>

A Via Áurea

Autor Desconhecido

<p>A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasco Santana in a story where the dissatisfied Manuel wonders why he doesn&rsquo;t get rich just from the efforts of his work.</p>

Aaaah!

Osman Cerfon

<p>Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger&hellip; Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.</p>

Sobre las nubes (About the Clouds)

María Aparicio

<p>Ramiro is a cook in a bar. Hern&aacute;n is an unemployed technician. Nora is a nurse in a public hospital. Luc&iacute;a is an employee in a bookstore. Four stories and a black and white city with a cloudy sky. None of them know each other, they are only inhabitants of the same city.</p>

Achewiq, The Song of the Brave Women

Elina Kastler

<p>In the north of Algeria, we find a region, Kabylie, where the Berber culture is linked to its traditions. But last summer was hard and a lot of suffering resulted from a fire. Now women deal with loss through music.</p>

Adrian’s Tears (2023)

Miguel Moraes Cabral

<p>From archived images, an unlikely story is woven about a boy who couldn&rsquo;t stop crying, creating both floods and paradises.</p>

Agora Frenesim (2023)

Laura Andrade

<p>The audacity that two girls demonstrate when they protest the lack of action in the face of climate change at the museum where Vera works inspires her to give rise to her own rebelliousness.</p>

Agrilogistics (2022)

Gerard Ortin Castellvi

<p>The perfect automation of a greenhouse where the fruit is checked and sorted using machinery. Human presence serves to fix where the machine fails &mdash; straightening the crooked, planting the delicate, and tending to the machine, unable to take care of itself.</p>

Aikiddo (2022)

Annabel Verbeke

<p>A celebration, with music and dance, of childhood after a period of confinement. Aiko is ten years old and needs new experiences to continue her vlog. In her search through the city, she meets children with the desire to express themselves through rhythm.</p>

Alegrías riojanas (2022)

Velasco Broca

<p>A surreal journey that begins with the confession of an ophthalmologist and a priest who, leaving his church, is hit by a car. Afterwards, there is a medieval purgatory, grotesque creatures and other bizarre occurrences.</p>

Alice (1987)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Adaptation of Alice&rsquo;s adventures by Lewis Carroll, mixing live action with stop motion animation, and Jan &Scaron;vankmajer&rsquo;s first leap into feature film. The inspiration for the film came from wanting to remove the material from the webs of the fairy tale and bring Alice more into the realm of dreams, without the weight of morals and with the freedom and bizarreness practicable in the realm of fantasy.</p>

Alpha Kings (2022)

Enrique Pedráza Botero Faye Tsakas

<p>A group of boys discover the easy money to be made on the Only Fans platform. They feel they don&rsquo;t have to do much to be in a better financial position than their parents. But the naivety of youth has not evaded them yet.</p>

An Ode (2023)

Inês França

<p>An autobiographical project that starts from a rediscovery and a change of perspective towards the positive and negative facets when it comes to sensitivity and sentimentality.</p>

Índia (Indie)

Telmo Churro

<p>Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by historical defeats, and with his son, Manuel, a teenager fantasising of a solitary, but erotic, trip to the cosmos. All together, they take Karen through dreams, lost glories, and catastrophes to meet a fallen hero who disappeared many centuries ago on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean.</p>

Animated Self-Portraits (segment Svankmajer)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A challenge between colleagues: David Ehrlich, an animator, asks others (from Japan to Yugoslavia) to make their own portrait with the tools they use, and Jan &Scaron;vankmajer&rsquo;s answer is this film.</p>

Aqueronte

Manuel Muñoz Rivas

<p>A group of passengers cross a river on a small ferry. Fog, laughter, whispers and faces inhabit a floating, suspended space. Time passes, the shore is now closer and people prepare for another part of their journey.&nbsp;<strong>Aqueronte</strong>&nbsp;summons the essence of cinema to transport us to unreal spaces where life is crystallised in a changing landscape of light and shadow. In this cinematic trip,&nbsp;Manuel Mu&ntilde;oz Rivas reaffirms the fabulating power of moving images.</p>

As Ruínas no interior

José de Sá Caetano

<p>It&rsquo;s the Second World War, during Easter 1943. A bourgeois family enjoys their holidays, a Belgian family takes refuge from the war. Until the children find the survivors of a fighter plane that fell into the sea. An allegorical sci-fi film that emerges during PREC (and, in the meantime, forgotten). Now shown in a new digital copy, the result of a carte blanche to Rui Nogueira, who programmed the film as director of the Jeune Cin&eacute;ma festival.</p>

Astrakan 79

Catarina Mourão

<p>It is 1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year. In her new film, Catarina Mour&atilde;o captures with tremendous precision the moment a middle-aged man passes his story on to his son, thus shedding the taboo of his ineffable experience.</p>

At the Edge of the Curtain

Antoinette Zwirchmayr

<p>A gym as the setting for a series of performances by three women whose relationships range from desire to ambivalence.</p>

Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace

Adam Ol'ha Jan Daňhel

<p>Jan &Scaron;vankmajer is the subject of this documentary, which honors his cinematographic work and his mastery, with whom the filmmakers spent three years distilling thoughts on topics such as his fetishes or his views on humanity. It is a three-pronged film, which needs two structural blocks of &Scaron;vankmajer&rsquo;s life: Jarom&iacute;r Kallista, his producer, and Eva &Scaron;vankmajerov&aacute;, his wife and muse, who appears in the film through the doors of memory, dreams, and archives.</p>

Austrian Pavilion

Philipp Fleischmann

<p>Through light inscriptions on physical structures or the creation of an apparatus that is a pinhole camera, Fleischmann creates Austria&rsquo;s own pavilion at the Venice Biennale.</p>

Autoerotic (2022)

João Martinho

<p>If on a foggy night a blonde woman. This is not exactly how Italo Calvino&rsquo;s novel begins, but it&rsquo;s how this meeting between the woman and two young men in a garden somewhere, on the outskirts of a city, begins.</p>

Backflip (2022)

Nikita Diakur

<p>Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.</p>

Balcony Cacophony (2022)

Quentin Haberham

<p>A rich old woman in love with the luxurious gardens of her mansion is forced to move into a tiny apartment. And she still has to deal, for the first time, with a strange neighbor with strange hobbies.</p>

Bauprobe (2022)

João Calixto

<p>An exploration of the language of scenography and of the maquette, in all its tactility, but rebelling against the presence of the human body. A theatre in miniature, only in the cinema.</p>

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Michael Rapaport

<p>&ldquo;Can I kick it?&rdquo; is the question and song that most naturally come to mind when talking about A Tribe Called Quest. Recognized as the fathers of a whole new facet of hip hop, capable of capturing the form and culture of what it&rsquo;s supposed to be, with party records with a social conscience. This documentary tells the story of the band &mdash; of their achievements, musical innovations and dramas &mdash; weaving a narrative that includes multiple voices.</p>

Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Luke Fowler

<p>COMPETITION Margaret Tait&rsquo;s life revolved around cinema and poetry. In this documentary, Luke Fowler takes a vast collection of archival material and unpublished and undiscovered correspondence and notebooks to weave together an image of and an original tribute to the Scottish director and poet, blending their sensibilities.</p>

Between Light and Nowhere

Joana de Sousa

<p>Cosmos, dolphins, loneliness and techno. Butterflies, lovers and raves. We close our eyes, and travel the entire universe in a single night.</p>

Birth of the Oases

Marion Jamault

<p>Opposites sometimes complement each other and that&rsquo;s the case between these unlikely friends: a snake and a camel, whose blood boils at very different temperatures.</p>

Black Mouse (2022)

Ahmad Naboulsi

<p>A documentary that explores the construction of a structure, in the 1960s, designed by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli, Lebanon. A project that is seen with ambiguity by the locals and that is &ldquo;explained&rdquo; by a fictional audio recording of the architect.</p>

Black Stone

Spiros Jacovides

<p>While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.</p>

Brighter than hypernova (2022)

Vladimir Simonovich

<p>Being a teenager is never easy, especially when someone doesn&rsquo;t fit the mold of what is expected. In this documentary, we follow a young person who doesn&rsquo;t want to be constrained by any limit other than what makes sense when it comes to being comfortable in one&rsquo;s skin.</p>

By My Hair (2023)

Laura Andrade

<p>Five girls go to the beach, walk along the sand, chat and laugh, the sea attracts them for a swim. An armpit that insinuates itself with a large tuft of hair reminds us of the film&rsquo;s title: By My Hair. Between genuine scenes of a gathering and intimate testimonies dyed by the golden sunlight, these women who don&rsquo;t shave will claim their choice in an uninhibited and surprising way (for its freedom, but also for its frankness, not eliminating from the speech any insecurities or fragilities). Instead of being pamphleteering, this film is, on the contrary, all celebration. It&rsquo;s no small thing. It will end in jubilation &mdash; theirs and, by contagion, ours.</p>

CAN and Me (2022)

Michael P. Aust Tessa Knapp

<p>The life of Irmin Schmidt &mdash; founder of the mythical German krautrock band CAN, which includes an early career as a conductor and a connection to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and then countless compositions for film soundtracks (such as Palermo Shooting, by Wim Wenders) and an opera, Gormenghast &mdash; is told in an intimate and humorous way, filled with archival footage that illustrate his life, philosophy and the dynamics of the band.</p>

carlos nogueira the house within

Luís Alves de Matos

<p>This documentary addresses the work of visual artist Carlos Nogueira &ndash; a multidisciplinary artist, and one of the leading contemporary Portuguese creators. It sheds light not only on his work, but also on his close relationship with his living and working space.</p>

Carmen Troubles (2022)

Vasco Araújo

<p>Georges Bizet&rsquo;s famous opera Carmen tells the story of the eponymous gypsy woman, depicted as being impulsive and with an eye on smuggling. Taking this perpetuated stereotype into account, we visit a group of Spanish gypsy women who are claiming their own space.</p>

CB4 (1993)

Tamra Davis

<p>CB4 refers to &ldquo;cell block 4&rdquo;, the prison environment that brought together the characters of this mockumentary about a totally fictional rap group, with Chris Rock as the lead, that satirizes without mercy aspects of gangsta rap the way This Is Spinal Tap satirizes the behavior of rock bands and the documentaries that idolized them. The film includes the parodic testimonies of Halle Berry, Eazy-E, Butthole Surfers, Ice-T, Ice Cube and Shaquille O&rsquo;Neal.</p>

Child with Mother (2019)

Wilma Calisir

<p>When the child recognizes itself in the mother and the passage of time that both experience.</p>

Cidade Rabat

Susana Nobre

<p>The everyday monotony. Bureaucratic work, the shared custody of her daughter. Until her mother&rsquo;s death underlines how much Helena lives in a middle space, between birth and death. The clarity that mourning brings, through nostalgic but humorous eyes, leads to new considerations about how to live the rest of her days.</p>

Coast (2023)

Francisco Dias

<p>A block of buildings facing the sea is once again threatened by the surrounding forces of nature. Two neighbors contemplate starting over somewhere else.</p>

Conspirators of Pleasure

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A very dark comedy about a group of people, more or less connected in their daily lives, who satisfy their more or less extravagant fantasies and sensual rituals, from the use of a chicken suit to a predilection for bread balls.</p>

Construction Work (2023)

Carolina Rosendo

<p>A film that opens the doors to the world of construction building, composed, here, by the voices of immigrant workers who build houses that will soon be inhabited. Coming, mostly, from former Portuguese colonies, the link to the country of origin is music, but also memory.</p>

Criss Cross (Krížom Krážom)

Nina Rybárová Tomáš Rybár

<p>A short cross-stitched story about friendship and treason between a birdie, a baby goat and a fox inspired by a folk proverb &ldquo;a friend in need is friend indeed&rdquo;.</p>

Cupid’s bow (2022)

Manon Tacconi

<p>Jess and Alana are two friends who went out the night before. Today, at the beach, Alana tries to talk about what happened between Jess and L&eacute;o.</p>

Cut! (2023)

Philippe Kastner

<p>When you&rsquo;re cooking and someone calls, you almost want to become two. Or something like that. Some way that allowed you to do two things at the same time.</p>

Damned Queers (1977)

Olle Holm

<p>An anthology about homosexuality and homophobia created by a group of gay Swedish filmmakers who, in the 1970s, decided to film their everyday life and intimacy.</p>

Dancing on the grave (2022)

Ana Šiškov

<p>In a family with well-defined power relations and family hierarchies, Lučana knows very well that the place reserved for her, because she is a woman, is the shadow left by her brother. It is nothing that prevents her from doing small mischief to him and rejoicing in his misfortune. Ana &Scaron;i&scaron;kov films with a dry and amusing humour a dysfunctional family, in a place where nothing happens.</p>

Darkness-Light-Darkness

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A human body under reconstruction that tries to understand where each component belongs.</p>

La herida luminosa (Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays)

Christian Avilés

<p>Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom. A surreal film about the real phenomenon of &ldquo;balconing&rdquo; which, in recent summers, has led to tragic, self-inflicted accidents particularly among young people travelling to Spain.</p>

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Véréna Paravel Lucien Castaing-Taylor

<p>An examination of the human body as an extraordinary landscape that is also otherworldly and harrowing, from five hospitals in northern Paris neighbourhoods.</p>

Dead Nerve (2023)

Margarida Pinto da Fonseca

<p><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">An experimental film that explores the director&rsquo;s own experience of hearing &mdash; or the partial absence of it. Being deaf in her right ear, she builds a sound narrative that invites the audience to perceive the world as she does: hearing only from one side. The sound travels from left to right, but for the director, it is a film that can never truly be heard on the right. This fundamental asymmetry remains untouched &mdash; and is carefully reflected in the editing process, which respects and preserves the integrity of her auditory experience.</span></p>

Death of a Mountain (2023)

Nuno Escudeiro

<p>Perhaps a mountain cannot belong to anyone, but memories and its presence within them result in something steeped in tradition. But everything that one looks upon with nostalgia has to be confronted with grown-up eyes. What do we do with the death (of the symbolism) of a mountain?</p>

Dede is dead

Philippe Kastner

<p>Prague animation student Philippe Kastner&#39;s delicate portrait of day-to-day life, his dog Dede is always there but one day, Dede is no longer there.</p>

Dildotectonica (Dildotectonics)

Tomás Paula Marques

<p>In a modest workshop, a ceramicist constructs dildos intended to stimulate non-normative bodies and desires, drawing inspiration from forms other than the phallus. In a convent in northern Portugal, two 18th-century&nbsp;<em>recolhidas&nbsp;</em>(secular recluses) are accused of sodomy by the Inquisition. Beginning with practical concerns and veering decisively toward the speculative and the fabulist, Tom&aacute;s Paula Marques depicts the fact and fantasy of queer pleasure.</p>

Dimensions of Dialogue

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A surrealist animation about the inherent difficulties of human communication, in which clay bodies are transmuted in the most incredible ways.</p>

Don Juan (1970)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Don Juan seen through the lens of traditional Czech plays. In this film, huge puppets represent the classic story of the Spanish libertine.</p>

Down to the Cellar (1982)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>All a girl&rsquo;s fears catch up with her when she goes down to the basement.</p>

Eeva (2022)

Morten Tšinakov Lucija Mrzljak

<p>A bird brings a message in morse code. A man surprisingly dies. A woman deals with the death of her husband. Nothing is as simple as it might seem.</p>

Endless Sea (2022)

Sam Shainberg

<p>A day in the life of an elderly New York woman in need of her medication is portrayed by Sam Shainberg with all the chronic anxiety and haste that permeate this city that never sleeps, in a demonstration of the need for universal healthcare systems.</p>

Entrance Wounds

Calum Walter

<p>A meditation on the image and the bullet. Entrance Wounds considers the modern challenge of trying to unsee an image. The film sifts through moments of the everyday, imagining a world where afterimages of disaster drift in near-transparency over the present. &mdash;Calum Walter</p>

Enys Men (2022)

Mark Jenkin

<p>COMPETITION Mary Woodvine stars as a volunteer who records her daily observations. Isolated on an island with no inhabitants off the coast of Cornwall, we feel the weight of tragedy both in the landscape and in the past of the woman we accompany. Mark Jenkin builds a ghostly atmosphere that blurs the line between dream and reality.</p>

Et cetera (1966)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Minimalist figures perform a series of fantastic acrobatics, such as learning how to use wings to fly.</p>

Euridice, Euridice

Lora Mure-Ravaud

<p>Ondina is a radiant, happy young woman. She lives with Alexia, they are in love. Their relationship is passionate and sensual. But one day, Alexia flies to her native Greece and does not return.</p>

Even Hell has its Heroes

Clyde Petersen

<p>A documentary that is like the music of the band it focuses on, Earth: slow, poetic and immersive, eschewing the traditional music documentary structure in favour of an atmospheric exploration. The world&rsquo;s slowest metal band, led by Dylan Carlson, reveals itself through the testimonies of a painful past &mdash; heroin use and a connection to Kurt Cobain&rsquo;s death, a ghost that haunts the enterity of the film &mdash; becoming something if not triumphant, at least sublime.</p>

Fado Lusitano (1995)

Abi Feijó

<p>Through collage, this animation crosses a series of national events (from maritime expansion to accession to the European Community), thus composing a satirical portrait of Portugal.</p>

Fantine’s Big Day Out

Julie Colly

<p>When everything goes wrong, all we have is a sense of humor. Jeanne and Piero want to spend the weekend in the country with their baby Fantine. After the confinement and the pandemic, they want to leave Paris. But nothing is simple for these young parents.</p>

Faust (1994)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Claymation, puppets, stop motion. All elements thrown like clay on the surrealist wall to create a version of Faust&rsquo;s story and his dance with Lucifer that brings together elements of Goethe and Christopher Marlowe, as well as some traditional folklore and even a Kafkaesque visit to a Portuguese court.</p>

Fawley

Chu-Li Shewring Adam Gutch

<p>With a multitude of voices, both human and non-human, this sensorial gem explores the environs of the soon-to-be demolished Fawley Power Station.</p> <p>With its giant 650ft chimney, Fawley Power Station was a striking Brutalist structure built within an idyllic marshland on the edge of the New Forest.</p> <p>Using interviews, archive, and observation, this poetic film explores Fawley&rsquo;s history and impending demolition through playful and profound discussion of themes of &lsquo;power&rsquo;, nature, environment, and unintended consequences. It addresses the deep psychological role architecture plays in our surroundings and asks, &#39;What is lost when a building disappears?&#39;</p>

Fest

Nikita Diakur

<p>A suburbian blockparty. Rave, drone, bbq and icecream. Then a stunt.</p>

First Age (2023)

Alexander David

<p>A little fish that murmurs that it is alive. A village where children do not know death. In his first feature film, Alexander David creates a community without adults, where children are governed by strict beliefs and where loss of innocence is the awareness of a world beyond their island.</p>

Flora (1989)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A creature made of perishable fruits and vegetables, decomposing so close to a regenerating glass of water.</p>

fossil:images (2022)

Lourenço Soares

<p>A filmic essay that relates the aesthetic representation of dinosaurs with the history of capitalism, with the dinosaur as a figure of the imaginary that is shaped according to political ideologies, concepts of power, gender and extinction.</p>

Niwa no sunaba (Garden Sandbox)

Yukinori Kurokawa

<p>After some misunderstanding, Sakaguchi is hired to make a tourist guide video on Tobako (a fictitious name for Kawaguchi) in the outskirts of Tokyo. This element in the script sparks off a fanciful wandering strewn with unexpected meetings. First with Kitagawa, thanks to whom Sakaguchi landed the job. Then with a seamstress, and then with Yoshino, with whom a half-hearted romance emerges. Thus the narrative unfolds, in halts and swerves, espousing unexpected meetings, and offering the strolling character an opportunity for displacements from one place to the next. The deserted town has come to a standstill &ndash; the shooting took place during the lockdown &ndash; and this acts as a metaphor for the idleness of the characters. GARDEN SANDBOX is light and nimble, whereas its main character hasa limp. Her demeanour and her stiff body exude a peculiar quality, somewhat comically at odds with the setting. Apathetically playing along, the young woman gleans from each character some pieces of information about the town and, then, touch by touch she delineates its picture: ultimately, the place comes acrossas a post-industrial locale whose foundries are now obsolete. Sakaguchi&rsquo;s very meanderings lead her to a rich family&rsquo;s house for a sewing lesson. In this pivotal scene, the lady of the house invites her to don an upper-class wedding dress. Through a gesture both radical and powerful, which itself informs the dynamic of the film as a whole, a gleeful snip of the scissors transforms the item of clothing into the ultimate chic of haute-couture design. What weaves together this truant escape whose motifs and fabric seem inspired by Jacques Rozier&rsquo;s films, a crumbling industrial heritage and the transforming of a traditional wedding dress? With GARDEN SANDBOX, whose title is a reference to the type of sand used in the foundries, joyfully and playfully, Yukinori Kurokawa interrogates the concepts of mutation and (re)use as sources of boundless possibilities.</p>

GeoMarkr (2022)

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

<p>A film that brings two worlds into dialogue with each other: that of the online game GeoGuessr (where locations are deduced through Google Street View images) and that of Chris Marker&rsquo;s filmography, the filmmaker and multimedia artist, deeply fascinated by digital technology and traveling.</p>

Gods of the Supermarket (2022)

Alberto Gonzalez Morales

<p>In a series of appropriated images &ndash; more or less randomly &ndash; from the internet, we wander through an amusing and frenetic discourse on the tension of love-hate for the body. In this protein shakes and energy bars culture, we are faced with two inverse but complementary feelings: on one hand, the attraction for this herculean body present both on supermarket shelves and in porn films, on the other, the repulsion for the real body that does not correspond to these ideals.</p>

Growing Up Absurd

Ben Balcom Julie Niemi

<p>Growing Up Absurd is assembled from interviews conducted remotely with key members of the Tolstoy College community that speak to the ethos and history of the college, from its founding in 1969 to its dissolution in 1985. College F, known colloquially as Tolstoy College, was an anarchist educational community which operated within the University at Buffalo between 1969 and 1985. At once a sweeping portrayal of the college&rsquo;s meeting places and the state of the campus today, Growing Up Absurd layers memories and traces of history to convey the lived experiences of its participants.</p>

Hannah, Anna, Ana

Ana Teresa Bruno Alves

<p>In this film, the filmmakers&rsquo; duo depicts three generations: the daughter, the mother, the grandmother. Three women who complete each other. &ldquo;1, 2, 3, 4&rdquo;. The letters of the mother, who has left, take her place in her absence. The two that remained, grandmother and granddaughter, live between the waiting, the joy of the return, the longing for the next departure. One day, the mother comes back, with a suitcase that tries to bring the world into it. Suddenly the house is filled with familiar, beloved, unforgettable sounds and smells. Hannah, Anna, Ana is a love letter, a tribute to the legacy of a woman who taught her daughter the experience of freedom.</p>

Happy Doom (2023)

Billy Roisz

<p>Flickering and pulsating, spitting and swallowing at the same time. The screen becomes a vibrating membrane; colours, shapes, beats and sounds a psychedelic whirlpool. A short, fast-paced audiovisual ode to the hypnotic power of colour and vertigo.</p>

Hardly Working

Susanna Flock Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf

<p>An ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.</p>

Hate (La Haine) (1995)

Mathieu Kassovitz

<p>Hate breeds hate. In this film, that thesis is put to the test in the aftermath of an incident involving riots between civilians and the police on the outskirts of Paris. A man, Abdel, goes to intensive care, a policeman loses his gun. These are 20 hours in the lives of three friends, all from immigrant families. With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kound&eacute; and Sa&iuml;d Taghmaoui. The film will be screened in a restored 4K version.</p>

Heatwave (2019)

Fokion Xemos

<p>In the midst of a heatwave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down! A playful stop motion short film animated using a hybrid technique that includes cut outs, clay animation and thousands of replacement pieces.</p>

Here

Bas Devos

<p>Stefan, a Romanian construction worker living in Brussels, is on the verge of moving back home. He cooks up a big pot of soup with leftovers in his fridge as a goodbye gift for friends and family. As he is about to leave, he meets a young Belgian-Chinese woman who is working in a little restaurant while researching her doctorate on mosses. Her attention to the near-invisible stops him in his tracks.</p> <p>A hunter-gatherer of beauty in urban landscapes, Bas Devos knows how to tell stories through images. Berlinale audiences beheld this talent in his films&nbsp;<em>Violet</em>&nbsp;(<em>Generation</em>, 2014) and&nbsp;<em>Hellhole</em>&nbsp;(<em>Panorama</em>, 2019). In&nbsp;<em>Here</em>, the Belgian filmmaker&rsquo;s ability to register the invisible and the untold performs many a small c. Unfolding in beautiful tableaux in 4:3 format, his work features characters in whose presence we want to feel the here and now, just as they do. Observing his central duo, played by the radiant Stefan Gota and Liyo Gong, as they discover each other, Devos&rsquo; gaze is as moving as it is delicate. And what more solid way for a bond to grow between two people than with their feet firmly rooted in Mother Nature&rsquo;s soft carpeting? It is more fragile than cement, but it is our true terrain.</p>

Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Each portrait of an animal species &mdash; and there are eight in total &mdash; is made with different animation methods, drawings and real images.</p>

Honeymoon at Cold Hollow

Nat Rovit

<p>It&rsquo;s winter, in the 1970s, a couple who have just tied the knot prepare to spend their honeymoon in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere. A cop asks them if it&rsquo;s the best idea and we wonder if they&rsquo;ve never read The Shining.</p>

Hooba (Hoeba)

Sem Assink

<p>3000 BC. A small group of inhabitants of the &#39;Low Countries&#39; are fighting the elements and hunger. Their endless inaptitude to organize themselves combines with their impulsiveness and this leads to the building of the mysterious standing stone buildings of The Netherlands. And the invention of &lsquo;Hooba&rsquo;.</p>

House of the Wickedest Man in the World

Jan Ijäs

<p>The Abbey of Thelema in Sicily was a small house used in the 1920s for magical rituals by Aleister Crowley, the famous occultist with links to Fernando Pessoa, and his followers. Years later, experimental director Kenneth Anger and sexologist Alfred Kinsey visit the place.</p>

How I Got My Wrinkles (2022)

Claude Delafosse

<p>Claude is an artist and now, aged 70, the time has come to make his own film. An animation with multiple techniques in which grandfather and grandson go on an adventure, sharing their love for drawing.</p>

遠吠え (Howling)

Aya Kawazoe

<p>&ldquo;The face of my younger brother upon his death was my own.&rdquo; Shusaku Aota sees himself in the face of his deceased brother. Distant howling that comes from an unknown location. His younger brother&rsquo;s memories. His bedridden pupil Kaoru Nogi appears out of thin air. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s me, after all.&rdquo; Shusaku loses sight of where he stands, where he is, where he exists.</p>

Idodo (2022)

Ursula Ulmi

<p>The story of how the little fish that live in corals got their dazzling colors, inspired by a folklore tale from Papua New Guinea.</p>

Impressions of Light (2022)

Juliana Julieta

<p>Reflections in the sea, on a spoon, on camera. Any reflective surface opens the door to exploration and play. Everything changes, depending on the light.</p>

na minha vida (in my life)

José Lobo Antunes

<p>A yellow envelope found in the drawer of the bedside table that has survived ten houses, that has crossed almost two decades. His father, his mother, Z&eacute;, his grandfather, his aunt Gabriela, Lourdes, Laura. And Viriato, who starts the return to the memories of a 3 year old child, at the time of the rediscovered envelope. With generosity, the author is looking for memories in the photographs that reveal themselves little by little. As he interrogates these images that emerge from the past, he brings us with him on a journey to reach the beloved people and places that continue to inhabit his present.</p>

In the Court of the Crimson King

Toby Amies

<p>The band&rsquo;s 50 years seen through the very present perspective of director Toby Amies who doesn&rsquo;t just focus on Robert Fripp, the controlling (and controlled) and genius leader of the band who demands the same degree of dedication of the other members that he imposes on himself. The documentary revolves around issues such as time, death and the power of music and virtuosity, as well as fan dedication, without ever losing a sense of humour.</p>

In the Flesh

DAPHNE GARDNER

<p>Tracey is just trying to jerk off with her bathtub faucet like normal when some old memories dredge themselves up, the pipes explode with dirty water, and she starts leaking black goo.</p>

In The Upper Room

Alexander Gratzer

<p>A young mole visits his grandfather, who doesn&rsquo;t see so well anymore, every season,. But perhaps he sees more than he seems to, and a beautiful relationship develops between the two.</p>

IN UKRAINE

Piotr Pawlus Tomasz Wolski

<p>As Western World struggled to understand the convention-breaking atrocities of the Russian army in Ukraine, European citizens joined forces to welcome nearly 8 million refugees fleeing the country. What happened to those who stayed or who returned home? Can home even be called &ldquo;home&rdquo; under the circumstances? Filmmakers Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski depart on a challenging mission to show, rather than tell, what is going on in shelled-out cities and burnt-down villages.</p>

mul-an-e-seo (in water)

Hong Sangsoo

<p>A young actor decides to give up acting and make a short film. The small crew comprising the actor himself, the cameraman and the female lead arrive on rocky, windswept Jeju Island. In search of an idea, the young actor explores the surroundings, waits for the right light to emerge and watches the horizon from the coast. One day he catches a glimpse of a figure amid the rocks at the bottom of a cliff, and this prompts him to take the plunge and exchange a few words. Thanks to this conversation, and a love song written years earlier, he finally has a story to tell.</p>

Incident (2023)

Bill Morrison

<p>In 2018, Chicago barber Harith &ldquo;Snoop&rdquo; Augustus is shot dead by police on his way to work. Incident first shows this shocking event from a distance, a view from above. This is followed by a chilling reconstruction based on footage from different angles and viewpoints, including surveillance cameras, and the dashboard cameras and bodycams of the officers present.</p> <p>At a certain point, different perspectives are combined in split-screen, intensely conveying the chaos, and the anger and desperation of the bystanders. Some know the victim. They see that he&rsquo;s still breathing. Gradually a disconcerting picture unfolds not only of the shooting incident itself, but also of the immediate aftermath. Where do the priority&rsquo;s of the police officers involved lie?</p>

INKT

Joost van den Bosch Erik Verkerk

<p>The octopus&rsquo; aquarium is spick and span. But when a child spills ice cream on his immaculate window, the octopus needs all his arms to get the attention of a cleaner.</p>

Hmyz (Insects)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Jan &Scaron;vankmajer thought that this would be his last film. An adaptation of a satirical theater comedy by brothers Karel and Josef Čapek, it follows a drifter narrator who falls asleep in a forest and dreams of anthropomorphized insects, in an allegory of life after the First World War. &Scaron;vankmajer&rsquo;s adaptation is a metatextual narrative about an amateur staging of the play, blended with the process of making the film itself.</p>

Issues with my other half (2023)

Anna Vasof

<p>The title alone promises to reveal some inharmonious details within one&rsquo;s own personality or self-image. Already in Anna Vasof&rsquo;s work Amazon Woman (2021) she, as a performer, leaves the terrain of the conducting artist who demonstrates her ideas in animated sequences. The unpleasant loss of controllability of the body is mixed in with the pleasurable and imaginative transformation of everyday objects and processes in order to make tangible the illusion machine of cinema and our sluggish vision. Elements of the body horror genre subtly take hold. Machines take possession over the physical organism, and the figure of Anna Vasof...</p>

É noite na América

Ana Vaz

<p>The cityscape of Bras&iacute;lia: a clogging of industry, automobiles and endless looping paved roads and highways. Occasionally a displaced wild animal, be it a monkey or an ant eater, scampers across a street. The unlucky will be casualties on the road, and the lucky will end up in a zoo. In her striking debut feature, filmmaker Ana Vaz weaves a mesmerising, poetic odyssey exploring the contamination of urban expansion on the natural world.</p> <p>Shot on grainy 16mm, a format itself looming towards extinction, Vaz&rsquo;s feature frames the landscape in the day-for-night wet blues of an endless twilight. Incorporating the eeriness of eco-horror with the ethnographic nature of a documentary, as the animals peering back at us from their cages and enclosures morph into a dizzying, poignant symbol of colonial displacement. A haunting, almost militarised score by the late legendary composer Guilherme Vaz propels us through this deeply textured and memorable meditation.</p>

It's a Date

Nadia Parfan

<p>Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this contemporary remake of Claude Lelouch&rsquo;s film C&rsquo;ETAIT UN RENDEZ-VOUS captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.</p>

Žvahlav (Jabberwocky)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Even before his feature film Alice, Jan &Scaron;vankmajer takes Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s imagery and adapts the poem Jabberwocky, a creature that appears in Through the Looking-Glass.</p>

Jeune cinéma

Yves-Marie Mahé

<p>From 1965 to 1983, Hy&egrave;res hosted the Festival International du Jeune Cin&eacute;ma. Archival materials, unfold a dazzling fresco of splendors and miseries, with stars and nobodies, while the main event loses itself in, and to the zeitgeist.</p>

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Doors, windows and stone walls with cracks in an intense symphony to the sound of Bach.</p>

Jump (2023)

Mariana Nunes

<p>Part of growing up is a certain desire to test the limits and that&rsquo;s exactly what Duarte does, on one of the several nights when his mother goes to work. Of course, not everything goes as he planned.</p>

Juri (2014)

Johannes Schrems

<p>Thirty minutes in which we follow the growth of the director&rsquo;s second son, for five years, from newborn, 2 to 5 seconds with each passing day.</p>

schichteln (Keep Shiftin’)

Verena Wagner

<p>Somewhere on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, the employees of a glass factory work, delicately and precisely, the hot materials in hand. The muscular and tattooed bodies of the men mark the beat of a night shift.</p>

Kunstkamera

Jan Švankmajer

<p>An astonishing array of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, objects and materials fill room after room &ndash; but this is not a museum open to the general public. It is the home of the celebrated artist couple Jan &Scaron;vankmajer and his late wife Eva, situated in the Czech Republic&rsquo;s Horn&iacute; Staňkov Castle.<br /> <br /> Like Guillermo del Toro with his self-curated Bleak House in Los Angeles, the &Scaron;vankmajers took their inspiration from the wunderkabinett (cabinet of curiosities) lovingly assembled by Rudolf II in the early 17th century. The film&rsquo;s title Kunstkamera is a pun on the Emperor&rsquo;s Kunstkammer &ndash; for here, Jan &Scaron;vankmajer has wittily converted a stroll by an unseen figure through his home into a film that seems infinite.<br /> <br /> For a creator who has been described as an &ldquo;animator-warlock and cinematographer-alchemist&rdquo;, there is no rational order to the arrangement of items in this vast collection &ndash; only free association and poetic profusion. &Scaron;vankmajer, now 88, has declared KUNSTKAMERA to be his final work. Edited to the music of Vivaldi (note for the ears: it sounds just as good played backwards!), KUNSTKAMERA will stir fond memories for those cinephiles who have loved the &Scaron;vankmajer films (dating back to 1964) proudly showcased at IFFR for decades.</p>

Land Song (2023)

Inês Ariana Pereira

<p>In less than ten minutes, this film-essay writes a love letter: of self-love and reciprocal love. In overlapping images of bodies and landscapes, the search is for a house, a body, a meaning. In a few chords, one hears a call, and seeks a destination that connects places of love in a return trip. Land Song is a touching film full of secrets that comes from the Escola Art&iacute;stica Soares dos Reis and from the heart of those who made it and for whom it was made. A film poem and a film song. The song of the land that &ldquo;carries the revolution on its (&hellip;) lips&rdquo;.</p>

Leixões (1933)

F. Carneiro Mendes

<p>Work in the Port of Leix&otilde;es is carried out by its workers, between handling the nets and fishing sardines.</p>

Leonardův deník (Leonardo ́s diary)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci are interspersed with live-action images, which, seeming disparate, are strangely associated.</p>

Little Otik (2000)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Jan &Scaron;vankmajer&rsquo;s affection for fairy-tale characters of macabre tones is present in this adaptation of a Czech folklore story, between Pinocchio and the Little Red Riding Hood, about a couple desiring to have a baby who find an anthropomorphic trunk that turns out to possess an insatiable hunger. The consequences turn out to be eccentric, yet still (very darkly) humorous.</p>

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Lisa Cortés

<p>Lisa Cort&eacute;s&rsquo; Sundance opening night documentary tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator &ndash; the originator &ndash; Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard&rsquo;s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon&rsquo;s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself.&nbsp;</p>

Luminum

Maximiliano Schonfeld

<p>Mother and daughter Silvia and Andrea are also ufologists. Together, they run a UFO research group and stand guard every night near the Paran&aacute; river, over which mysterious lights often appear, which they attempt to chase down. Merging scenes of sometimes quirky conversations between the two women &ndash; for example when they wonder what they would do if they were to adopt Alf from the eponymous television series &ndash; against a backdrop of sunsets, with amateur images of UFOs and appearances of characters from another world, Maximiliano Schonfeld paints the portrait of a community, with humour and great tenderness. In keeping with his previous documentary LA SIESTA DEL TIGRE (2016), this new work is a poetic immersion into a place, into his region of Entre Rios, an artisanal documentary of science and of fiction. One day, Andrea will go, leaving Silvia to dream alone.</p>

Lunacy (2005)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>After Alice in Wonderland and Faust, the Czech director takes two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, a dash of Marquis de Sade and builds a plot about a man that&rsquo;s convinced to go to an asylum to undergo preventive, but shocking, therapy in order to overcome debilitating hallucinations where he imagines he&rsquo;s being placed in a straitjacket.</p>

Madeira – Pérola do Atlântico (1937)

Heinrich Gartner Mota da Costa

<p>A film that explores and showcases Madeira&rsquo;s life and lush environment, from nature to the homes, local traditions and handicrafts.</p>

Magma (2023)

Luca Meisters

<p>Esra is nine years old and at nine we want stability. But nothing is as usual. She&rsquo;s moved to a new house, to a new school, and her father, with a sudden disability, is no longer who she was. The difficulty of dealing with all the changes is suffocating and the only solution is to erupt.</p>

Mammalia

Sebastian Mihailescu

<p>A&nbsp;man on the brink of losing control discovers a world of strange rituals and unsettling communities,&nbsp;as the lines between the real and the surreal start to blur.</p>

Mannvirki (2023)

Gústav Geir Bollason

<p>&ldquo;Mannvirki&rdquo; means structure, building. But also the junction of the words for &ldquo;person&rdquo; and &ldquo;fortress&rdquo;. In this film, we travel through an abandoned structure in northern Iceland, which due to its proximity to the coast is being eroded by time, wind, and sea. The lack of activity is an invitation to the entry of fauna, flora and curious humans with plans for the future.</p>

Maputo Nakuzandza

Ariadine Zampaulo

<p>In the blue hues of dawn, by a stationary merry-go-round, young people stagger home as workers in suits make their way to work. Radio Maputo Nakuzandza, 5:15 am: the first lights of day illuminate this magnificent opening shot. After immersing us in the daily life of the great city of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, the film comes to a close as night falls. Ariadine Zampaulo elegantly orchestrates an urban symphony whose findings never cease to surprise us, such as the radio program which runs as a common thread alongside a choreographed dérive. The words of residents and ambient sounds broadcast are interwoven unexpectedly into the sequences, to make the city heard in a film that is in constant, meandering movement. Figures meet then lose each other in the immense urban space: a jogger roams the main arteries of the city from morning to evening, a tourist with Keatonian gestures wanders around, a young fiancée having escaped from her wedding drifts like a ghost. In blending documentary- style shots, fictional scenes and dance performances in the ruins of abandoned buildings, Zampaulo composes a kaleidoscopic portrait of Maputo rather than following a single track. The urban landscape reveals the traces of its colonial past while the verses of the greatest Mozambican poets resound. In a sweeping yet precise gesture, Ariadine Zampaulo seeks to comprehend the city through its multiple branches, embracing History and the immediacy of the present. A film-poem with polyphonic prose, Maputo Nakuzandza (&ldquo;Maputo I Love You&rdquo;) is nothing less than an ode to the city, and to life. (Louise Martin Papasian)</p>

Marinaleda

Louis Séguin

<p>Two vampires are hitchhiking on the roads of France. Their goal: Marinaleda, a small town in Andalusia. Following a misunderstanding, they meet Lise, a young woman who offers to put them up for the night. She discovers that they are vampires and they spend the evening chatting over a good bottle of wine.</p>

Matte Study

Nina Porter

<p>Compositions made in stencils documented over 12 hours that are pasted on a grid system, creating a visual puzzle.</p>

Creuse (Meantime)

Guillaume Scaillet

<p>Marc went to the countryside, to take advantage of the calm environment to try and relax. His routine is precise and healthy. His girlfriend promises a visit. But the silence of the countryside gives way to an obsession with his regimented life and the sounds that fill it.</p>

Memórias de Pau-Preto e Marfim (Memories of Blackwood and Ivory)

Inês Costa

<p>Animation and personal archives come together for a collection of memories about the Portuguese colonial past that frees itself from the dominant narratives.</p>

Misión a Marte (Mission to Mars)

Amat Vallmajor del Pozo

<p>A post-apocalyptic Basque Country is the perfect setting for the story of Txomin, an unemployed archaeologist who is given the mission to go to Mars. But the adventure begins before that take-off, on a journey through northern Spain with his brother Gene, whose health deteriorates, creating the need for a detour that could put the mission at risk. The music mirrors the punk spirit of a film that has a DIY attitude, including the use of the director&rsquo;s family members.</p>

Mistida (2022)

Wilker Nhaga

<p>A mother goes shopping and the weight of the bags hurts her. She asks her son for aid and he comes to help her carry the groceries home. As they travel the distance, they also deal with the issues that haunt them.</p>

Morning Shadows (2023)

Rita Cruchinho Neves

<p>An animation that plays with the elements of the eclipse (light and shadow) and the poetics of waiting for a barber.</p>

My Name Is Edgar and I Have a Cow

Filip Diviak

<p>Edgar leads an utterly predictable life. But one day, when visiting an abattoir, he witnesses the birth of a calf. After that, nothing is the same.</p>

A Minha Raiva é Underground (My Rage is Underground)

Francisca Antunes

<p>A narrative told in the first person in which space and sound work to rebuild a connection with the body that has been lost.</p>

Night Ride (2022)

Yu-Hsin Chen

<p>An animation without dialogues where a motorbike trip is drawn step by step and where, at night, all the lights shine brighter.</p>

Non contractuel (2015)

Paul Heintz

<p>A company that facilitates job training by unemployed people. A cynical look at the absurd world of capitalism and corporate work.</p>

Notes for the woodshed

Daniel Owusu

<p>When the only place for a jazz musician to practice in peace and quiet is a (metaphorical or otherwise) woodshed.</p>

O Documentário da Fabricação de Farinha e Óleo de Peixe

Autor Desconhecido

<p>Film produced by the Instituto Portugu&ecirc;s de Conservas de Peixe that details the work involved in making oil and flour from fish, in factories all over the country.</p>

O Fim do Mundo (2019)

Basil da Cunha

<p>Seven years after At&eacute; Ver a Luz, Basil da Cunha returned to Reboleira to tell this story of returns, endings, a portrait of a youth and a social space. Spira, 18 years old, is back after years in a juvenile detention centre. Friends are still there, so are parties and schemes to make a living. Bulldozers tear down houses in the neighbourhood, Iara in the meantime became a woman, and drug trafficking is both a dream and a nightmare.</p>

O Pão (1963)

Manoel de Oliveira

<p>An operatic vision on the instances linked to bread-making &ndash; from the seed to the collection, from the milling to the consumption of bread &ndash; but which inserts in itself a treatise on the consecration of the dignity of man through his work.</p>

Obreras saliendo de la fábrica (2005)

José Luis Torres Leiva

<p>Four women in a monotonous factory job where any individual expression is in the way of extreme efficiency. But there are things capable of flourishing within these walls, like friendships. If the point is to get out of the factory, we also see what they do next.</p>

Ode to Loneliness (2022)

Rawane Nassif

<p>A film that explores loneliness and isolation and what being alone teaches us about ourselves. Between the routine inside and the promise of activity outside, everything blurs and blends in this cocoon that is also a window.</p>

Naquele Dia em Lisboa (On That Day in Lisbon)

Daniel Blaufuks

<p>A film that is a photograph expanded in time, from film reels discarded in 1940 by cinematographer and, later, Oscar winner, Eugen Sch&uuml;fftan. The narration is by Bruno Ganz, who recounts the passage of refugees passing through the Portuguese capital.</p>

Orlando, ma biographie politique (Orlando, My Political Biography)

Paul B. Preciado

<p>Virginia Woolf&rsquo;s 1928 novel&nbsp;<em>Orlando</em>&nbsp;is both historical anchor and hopeful North Star of writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado&rsquo;s first film, a sweeping yet intimate documentary that takes a panoramic look at past and present trans lives. Preciado&rsquo;s literate, charming conceptual approach casts 26 trans and non-binary people as different versions and evocations of Woolf&rsquo;s famous gender nonconformist, using the book as a starting point to talk about both the social and metaphorical meanings of transness and how Woolf&rsquo;s reflections on the body untethered from both time and gender normativity remain radical.&nbsp;Fleet and visually inventive, Preciado&rsquo;s film is finally a robust polemical inquiry into contemporary trans personhood and political disenfranchisement that points the way toward a possible utopia. Winner of four prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival, including the Teddy Award.</p>

Otro Sol (2023)

Francisco Rodríguez Teare

<p>Otro Sol is a group of real and invented characters trapped in a film. It is also a purgatory of retired thieves set on the coast of the Atacama Desert. The film is circular and seeks to invent as well as verify the myth of Alberto C&aacute;ndia, a Chilean international thief who stole the Cathedral of Cadiz in Andalusia in the late 1980s.</p>

Our Body (Notre Corps)

Claire Simon

<p>In a Parisian hospital, Claire Simon films a ward where destinies intersect: abortion, endometriosis, assisted reproduction, maternity, gender transition, cancer... There, she collects the stories of these individuals, their hopes, their desires, but also their fears.&nbsp;This film follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.&nbsp;</p> <pre> &nbsp;</pre>

Outlets (2022)

Duncan Cowles

<p>Duncan Cawles uses cinema and the artistic process to create a moving ode to his grandmother and the expression of his grief, with humor and wit.</p>

Outros Bairros (1988)

Kiluanje Liberdade Inês Gonçalves Vasco Pimentel

<p>A documentary that celebrates the affirmation of ethnic identity and the abundance of forms of expression of a community of teenagers with families of African origin and born in Portugal.</p>

Pearl (2022)

Ti West

<p>Chronologically, Pearl is positioned as a prequel to X (2022) and shows us the origin of the villainy present in that first film. Ti West shines as director, editor, screenwriter, and producer, in a genre where creativity always exceeds the meagre means of production. Aesthetically quite different from X, Pearl brings us a masterful Mia Goth and a wink, both comedic and vicious, to The Wizard of Oz or Mary Poppins.</p>

La Colline aux Cailloux (Pebble Hill)

Marjolaine Perreten

<p>A small family of shrews is forced to leave their house by a stream and look for a new home for the coming winter. They set off on an adventure.</p>

Pentola

Leo Černic

<p>It&rsquo;s not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, you are my superhero.</p>

Pescadores de Setúbal

Autor Desconhecido

<p>A film from the 1940s with footage from the 1920s about sardine fishing on the Set&uacute;bal Peninsula.</p>

Phonos (2021)

Gabriela Badillo

<p>Cloe and her grandpa collect sounds. When he dies, she will have to deal with his absence and the loss of sharing something you love.</p>

Pipes (2022)

Jessica Meier Kilian Feusi Sujanth Ravichandran

<h6><span style="font-size:14px">Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.</span></h6>

Please Make it Work (2022)

Daniel Soares

<p>The contrast between the sophistication of the houses and the breathtaking view with Cl&aacute;udia&rsquo;s coarse life. The story of a Portuguese emigrant who deals with the weight of responsibilities and the gap that is created between her and her teenage daughter.</p>

Pond

Lena von Döhren Eva Rust

<p>A shoal of herrings, adopting fantastic formations, roams the vast ocean. When seagulls suddenly attack, one small herring finds itself stranded in a tidal pool. As it searches desperately for&nbsp;a way out, it discovers many other sea creatures here. And now there is no time for fear: only by joining forces can they hope to defend themselves against the hungry seagull.</p>

Fördom & Stolthet – en queer filmhistoria (Prejudice & Pride – Swedish Film Queer)

Eva Beling

<p>Eva Beling draws on 100 years of Swedish cinema history to take the audience on a journey where the lens is from a queer perspective, revealing portrayals of gay and transgender people to the present day. The cinematic journey begins with Mauritz Stiller, goes through Greta Garbo, Mai Zetterling, Ingmar Bergman and the sexploitation of the 1970s all the way to contemporary cinema.</p>

Primeira Obra (2023)

Rui Simões

<p>Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Sim&otilde;es. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.</p>

Filme Particular (Private Footage)

Janaína Nagata

<p>The director comes into possession, through a serendipitous internet purchase, of a roll of 16mm film belonging to an unknown family. This film becomes an investigation, through a post-colonial perspective, using digital tools and the clues that the film offers, to deconstruct and investigate the origin of the material and the socio-political and historical context that surrounds it, namely the Apartheid in South Africa.</p>

Per Arti (Remember to Blink)

Austeja Urbaite

<p>Two Lithuanian children were adopted by a French couple, Jaqueline and Leon, but a need arises in order for them to overcome communication difficulties and facilitate adaptation. Gabriele, a student also from Lithuania, comes to live with this family to help. Between the two maternal figures, a dispute begins over the impact on the children, with Jacqueline as the authority figure, but Gabriele as the friendly presence that wins them over.</p>

Repetitions (2022)

Morgan Quaintance

<p>An exploration of repetitive patterns, intertwining original material with found and archival footage, to create a weave of intermittent images, telephone narratives and sequential sounds, whose rhythm is reminiscent of a machine. &quot;Repetitions&quot; is an exercise that relies on audiovisual repetition as much as on the recursive echoes of the obstacles, struggles, and vulnerabilities that still mark the body of the working class.</p>

La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder (Resumption of Work at the Wonder Factory)

Pierre Bonneau Liane Estiez-Willemont Jacques Willemont

<p>Amid a sour return to work, which does not feel like a workers&rsquo; victory, a quiet voice of disruption tries to shake the passive return to the status quo.</p>

Camino de Lava (Roads of Lava)

Gretel Marín

<p>Afibola is an afrofeminist and queer Cuban activist, yet her son, Olorun, must unlearn daily most of what he is taught in school. Afibola and her community try to teach Olorun how to grow up to be a free black person, despite the obstacles around them.</p>

Rosinha e Outros Bichos do Mato (Rosinha and Other Wild Animals)

Marta Pessoa

<p>A film that scrutinizes the idea of &ldquo;soft racism&rdquo; and how it comes to drink from the exalted Portuguese colonialism. The titular Rosinha is a Guinean native who became the symbol of the first Portuguese colonial exhibition presented by the Estado Novo in 1934. A trip to the past to better understand the present.</p>

Vermelho bruto (Rough Red)

Amanda Devulsky

<p>In her film entitled Rough Red, Amanda Devulsky endeavours to tell History differently, to show the reverse angle of political action, as well as to postulate that another form of resistance is possible. By shedding light on the lived experience of those who are unseen in public space, she has authored a historiography of the hidden. We&rsquo;re following the lives of J&ocirc;, Eunice, Alessa and Fabiana, four women who were still teenagers when they became mothers, at a time when Brazil itself was becoming a democracy, during the 1985-1995 decade, in Brasilia. Four women experiencing the strains of motherhood, and whose struggles were not played out in public but rather in the private space of the home. Blending personal archives with images shot in 2018, during the campaign leading up to Jair Bolsonaro&rsquo;s election, Amanda Devulsky constructs a monumental narrative.</p>

Rubab (2023)

Marta Vaz

<p>A film that proposes to show a slice of life of students that came from the only music school in Kabul (Afghanistan), who took refuge in Lisbon after the prohibition of music by the Taliban regime. One hundred students were thus received at the National Conservatory.</p>

Runaway (2022)

Salome Kintsurashvili

<p>A ten-year-old boy&#39;s world is turned upside-down when his father is forced to shelter a runaway criminal in the family cafe&nbsp;that doubles as their home.</p>

Sigurno mjesto (Safe Place)

Juraj Lerotić

<p>A traumatic event &ndash; a suicide attempt &ndash; creates a rift in a family&rsquo;s everyday existence. Their lives fundamentally change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The source of the story is autobiographical, it is addressed in the film and highlighted by the fact that the author/director plays himself.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

Saint Omer

Alice Diop

<p>COMPETITION Alice Diop enters the world of fiction telling the story of Rama, a professor of literature and novelist who travels to Saint-Omer to accompany a trial, being in the first months of pregnancy. In the defendant&rsquo;s seat is Lawrence Coly, a Senegalese immigrant student accused of having left his daughter, just over a year old, abandoned on the beach. The kinship Rama feels with Lawrence&rsquo;s life experience makes her apprehensive about her future.</p>

Samsara

Lois Patiño

<p>The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Th&ouml;dol, describes the three transitional phases between death and rebirth. In the first part of&nbsp;Samsara, which comprises two narrative sections and a sensational centerpiece, a young man in Laos reads the book to an elderly woman. He befriends several monks&mdash;young males like him&mdash;from the nearby monastery, and they meet at the magnificent waterfalls of Kuang Si to discuss their plans for the future. The woman, meanwhile, is ready to take leave of her present existence.</p> <p>The story continues on the other side of the world, the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, where we see a goat kid being born and coming under the care of an Islamic family. But this section only starts after filmmaker Lois Pati&ntilde;o has presented the viewer with an awe-inspiring transitional section that can only be fully experienced with closed eyes. It transforms Samsara into more than a film&mdash;this is a unique cinematic experience, a meditative journey exploring different perspectives on life and death.</p>

Scratch (2001)

Doug Pray

<p>The history of hip-hop in a documentary that goes back to the origins of a musical genre that started with DJs experimenting on vinyl and became much more than that. From the initial elements, through the introduction of MCs, the battles and the creation of beats, this is a new world created by unexpected virtuosos.</p>

Syk pike (Sick of Myself)

Kristoffer Borgli

<p>Perhaps the most cringe comedy one can see, even bordering on the limits of what a comedy is, but with a perfect distillation of Scandinavian humour, in a venomous (in more ways than one) satire of Signe, a character with a competitive (and pathological) need to attract attention and sympathy. And as her boyfriend, Thomas, gains fame as an artist, the more her plans become delusional.</p>

Slaughterhouses of Modernity

Heinz Emigholz

<p>The actor Stefan Kolosko acts as a diver in the sunken city of Epecu&eacute;n, where he paraphrases a text by Jorge Luis Borges, and as a curator in Berlin&#39;s &quot;Humboldt Forum&quot;, where he enumerates the crimes of Wilhelm II. The architect Arno Brandlhuber comments on the reconstruction of the &quot;Berlin City Palace&quot;.</p>

Sleepwalkers (2014)

Patrick Mendes

<p>When the world becomes perfectly automated what is human labor for? Nourishment to the industry itself.</p>

Fumer fait tousser (Smoking Causes Coughing)

Quentin Dupieux

<p>Absurdist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux&rsquo;s francophone Power Rangers is a wacky, uproarious look at off-duty superheroes.</p> <p>Like your favourite spandex-clad, helmeted childhood superheroes, the five-piece Tobacco Force fights extraterrestrial evil to save the world. But in order to defeat the formidable Lizardin, the squad needs to address their weakening solidarity. Their slobbering rodent chief decides to send them for a lakeside team-bonding retreat.</p> <p>From talking barracudas to murders at a villa, this bizarre comedy plays with the genre conventions of children&rsquo;s television, swerving unexpectedly into tales of the macabre. Dupieux&rsquo;s latest film cements his position as a maverick cult director with the air of a self-assured surrealist.</p>

dass steine sprechen sprechen sprechen (so stones talk talk talk)

Simon Dallaserra

<p>Trying to hear the conversations stones might have on a deserted beach in Oporto, on a day like any other, in April 2022.</p>

Soft & Quiet (2022)

Beth de Araújo

<p>&ldquo;Far-Right Ladies Night&rdquo;, &ldquo;Neo-Nazi Karens Are Your Worst Nightmare&rdquo;: some of the review titles for this disturbingly immersive one-shot film about the horror that hides in everyday life. Soft and Quiet holds the viewer&rsquo;s hand firmly and makes us grasp a dark side of humanity. Between warning and shock, a film about the potential and dire consequences of a white supremacist mentality.</p>

Solmatalua (2022)

Rodrigo Ribeiro Andrade

<p>A poetic essay that re-imagines an odyssey of the African diaspora that moves away from the white hands that wrote the stories of these lands and puts, rather, the focus on the stories of those who couldn&rsquo;t tell their own History. A film that is the creation of an impressionist story (through dance, archival footage, performances) that moves away from traditional reconstruction.</p>

Something You Said Last Night

Luis De Filippis

<p>A family vacation at a resort where the activities are designed either for the older or the younger, and Ren in her mid-twenties, her desire to be a writer and having just been fired not being able to entertain her. Between keeping secrets, hers and her sister&rsquo;s, and putting up with parents who are overly happy, but with a sometimes-sharp tongue, this is not your typical story about a trans girl and her relationship with her family.</p>

Somni

Sonja Rohleder

<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>

Spin & Ella

An Vrombaut

<p>Ella is a spider fairy. She lives with her best friend Spider in Twig City, a busy forest that looks a bit like a metropolis. Ella has a magic wand that she can use to draw spider webs. But she can&#39;t do this on her own; she needs Spider&rsquo;s help! The two are inseparable - literally because they are connected by a spider thread - until the moment Ella and Spider each want to draw a different picture. They&rsquo;re both stubborn and turn their backs on each other. The spider thread breaks in two. Ella and Spider each go their separate ways and make spiderweb drawings on their own, but this doesn&#39;t work out too well. Ella becomes frustrated. To make matters worse, her magic wand goes haywire. It doesn&rsquo;t take long before Twig City becomes a jumble of knots. Ella wants to clean up the tangled mess and starts to wind the spider thread into a tight ball, but this is a big chore... Meanwhile, Spider has started the pursuit of the runaway wand. He jumps on it, manages to get the wand under control and steers it towards Ella. Spider and Ella are reunited on top of a huge spider-thread ball.</p>

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Anton Corbijn

<p>In his first documentary, music video legend Anton Corbijn tells the wild story of the visionary album cover designers behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others. The rockumentary of the year!</p>

Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer

Robert Fantinatto

<p>&ldquo;Subotnick&rdquo; is the name of a Caribou song, but it is also Morton&rsquo;s last name, the ninety-year-old composer and pioneer of electronic music best known for the album Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), which continues to be discovered by new generations decades later. Between old records, which explore his extensive career, and conversations in the first (and third) person, we meet a man guided by instinct (and by his arm).</p>

قناة فجأة (Suddenly TV)

Roopa Gogineni

<p>A group of young Sudanese men create an imaginary television station at a besieged sit-in.&nbsp;<em>&ndash; DeWitt Davis</em></p>

Tournesol (Sunflower)

Natalia Chernysheva

<p>A sunflower unlike the others decides to change the way things are supposed to happen. Forget the sun, there&rsquo;s the moon!</p>

Přežít svůj život (Surviving Life)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A film that combines filmed reality and cut-out animation to tell the double life of a married man who meets the literal woman of his dreams, dreams that he manages to visit with the help of a ritual. As he learns more about his past, he will have to decide between staying in the dream world or the waking world.</p>

Kop Op! – de serie (Swop – Dentist)

Job Joris & Marieke

<p>Going to the dentist is scary. Wouldn&rsquo;t it be so much easier if we could switch heads? Someone else could go for us! When Sef trades with Wesley strange things happen.</p>

t t t touch me

Raphael Reichl

<p>When someone&rsquo;s skin can become a cell phone screen and all gestures analogous to digital communication become analogue.</p>

Ten Meter Tower

Axel Danielson Maximilien Van Aertryck

<p>A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? The situation highlights a dilemma: endure the instinctive fear of taking the plunge or the humiliation of having to climb down. Ten Meter Tower is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.</p> <p>A 10 meter diving tower. People who have never ben up there before have to chose whether to jump or climb down. The situation in itself highlights a dilema: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down. Ten Meter Tower is an entertaining study of the human in a vulnerable position. (KurzFilm Verleih)</p>

The Adults

Dustin Guy Defa

<p>Eric wanted to have a short trip back home, but as time passes, it turns into a nostalgic stay as Eric catches up with his two sisters. His desire to prove himself to be the best poker player in town is also holding up his return. His sour relationship with his sister Rachel, and their little sister Maggie&#39;s attempts to revive the camaraderie they once shared, make Eric and Rachel face the reality of present divide between them.</p>

Gigi la legge (The Adventures of Gigi the Law)

Alessandro Comodin

<p>Gigi is a police officer in a countryside where nothing ever happens. One day however, a young girl throws herself under a train. This is not the first time. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts investigating a strange world, between reality and fantasy, where a garden turns into a jungle and where an ever-smiling policeman keeps his heart open to love.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

Keith Griffiths Stephen Quay Timothy Quay

<p>A tribute to Jan &Scaron;vankmajer, where a puppet teaches a boy the art of perspective and the illusory trick.</p>

The Chimney Swift (2020)

Frédéric Schuld

<p>Small children who become chimney sweeps due to their privileged stature and who grow up to continue a vicious cycle of complicity with child labor.</p>

The Dam

Ali Cherri

<p>North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brickyard on the Nile, downstream of the dam. Just like his exiled companions, he spends his days in the mud, far from his loved ones and in exhausting labour. Each night, he secretly works on the erection of a structure, a tall shape made out of mud, wood, and plastic. As the mud builds over the solid skeleton of the structure, it begins to take on an almost organic-looking form. One day, as he returns from Jebel Barkal, the mystical mountain, his creation has mysteriously disappeared. Soon strange occurrences begin to take place, and Abu Salma starts to get the uneasy feeling that someone or something is watching him.</p>

Konec Stalinismu v Čechach (The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A film that Jan &Scaron;vankmajer made for the BBC, when it asked for an animation about the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1990. Czech history from 1948 to 1989 is presented through clay figures that emerge from a bust of Stalin, open on an operating table.</p>

L' Éden de La Ciotat (The Eden of la Ciotat)

Alain Bergala

<p>The first episode of the documentary series Cin&eacute;mas Mythiques focuses on the &Eacute;den theater in the French town of La Ciotat, the first cinema theater in history. Critic Alain Bergala explores the relationship of this city and this cinema to the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumi&egrave;re, accompanying another pair of filmmaker brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, on a tour of this and other iconic spots, such as the train station where the most famous train arrival was filmed.</p>

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

C.B. Stockfleth

<p>It took the director 14 years to build, between interviews and archives, this homage to the music that came out of Athens, Georgia (USA), in the 1990s, where a bunch of friends and strangers with a passion for psychedelic rock came together to enjoy big houses and low rents and created influential bands full of joy and chaos like Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel or the Apples in Stereo.</p>

The Eternal Daughter

Joanna Hogg

<p>OUT OF COMPETITION The third collaboration between Joanna Hogg and Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter could be seen as a spiritual sequel to the two-parter Souvenir, but with a less operatic, though equally personal, edge. The story is that of a middle-aged filmmaker accompanied by her elderly mother on a hotel stay with a family connection. Here, the daughter wishes to make a film about her mother and the inevitable investigation of the past reveals long hidden ghosts.</p>

Zánik domu Usherů (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>The imagery of Edgar Allan Poe and two cursed siblings (she is almost catatonic, he with his senses inflamed) is transported into the animated world of Jan &Scaron;vankmajer.</p>

A Febre de Maria João (The Fever of Maria João)

Afonso Rapazote Bernardo Rapazote

<p>A life in isolation filled with stories of adventure outside, until an adventure in the shape of a man knocks at the door, carrying too a story about his past.</p>

Le film que vous allez voir (The Film You Are About to See)

Maxime Martinot

<p>The warning labels found on some new microwave ovens may have comedic value (where but in America would users be warned not to put their pet in the device?) but we rarely notice the disclaimers preceding films. In fact, they are even more absurd: one very common one is &ldquo;This is a work of fiction.&rdquo; But producers, distributors and cinema owners protect themselves from accusations of offense caused by all sorts of other potential issues, like people of the same sex kissing, special effects, drug use, violence, unsafe behavior, and even cinematic experimentation.</p> <p>The fear of having to pay the price for being misunderstood can be traced back to the very beginnings of film&mdash;as proven by these disclaimers from the 1874&ndash;2022 period. While the tone of this litany of warnings may be deeply ironic, the feeling gradually creeps up on you that this legal straitjacket could fatally constrict the unique ability of film to imagine the unknown, and to suspend disbelief.</p>

Byt (The Flat)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A short film without dialogue where a man is trapped in his apartment and the objects around him are indignant against him.</p>

FOOD (1992)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.</p>

Zahrada (The Garden)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A fence that is made of people and of which Franta, who has come to visit his old friend Josef, will become a part of.</p>

The Left Behind (2022)

Aurélie Oliveira Pernet

<p>Ot&iacute;lia is a contemporary Atlas, condemned to sustain all the responsibility instilled in her: the visible, her work commitments, and the invisible, her domestic work and caring for her mother.</p>

The Mechanics of Fluids

Gala Hernández López

<p><em>In 2018, an incel (i.e., an involuntary celibate) posts a suicide note on the Reddit platform with the title &quot;America is responsible for my death.&quot; The Mechanics of fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift on the Internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.</em></p>

Kostnice (The Ossuary)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>A journey through the Sedlec Ossuary, one of the most famous Czech tourist attractions, made up of victims of the black death.</p>

Kyvadlo-Jama-Naděje (The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>Jan &Scaron;vankmajer brings together, in a fantastic and terrifying way, two stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Auguste Villiers de l&rsquo;Isle-Adam, &ldquo;The Pit and the Pendulum&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Torture by Hope&rdquo;, respectively.</p>

Les Prostituées de Lyon Parlent (The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak)

Carole Roussopoulos

<p>The oldest profession in the world is perhaps one that operates in the most ruthless way, or perhaps in the most fragile. Here, we go back to 1975, to a moment when the sex workers of Lyon decided to give voice to their conditions, stories and demands.</p>

The Silence of The Banana Trees

Eneos Carka

<p>A father finds shelter in the memories he created together with his daughter to whom he hasn&#39;t spoken in years. The film transforms into a go-between in an attempt to unite them through images, sounds, and letters.</p>

Le Mur des morts (The Wall of the Dead)

Eugène Green

<p>Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time, and to bring comfort to his loved ones.</p>

Le Loup et le Chien (The Wolf and the Dog)

Héloïse Le Bail

<p>A dog and a wolf will have to discover what makes them happier, if with freedom but less abundance or if a regulated life, with more luxuries.</p>

The Wrong Man (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock

<p>One of Jean-Luc Godard&rsquo;s favourites. A noir filmmaker in his own right, this Hitchcock feature is based on real events and one of the inspirations for Martin Scorsese&rsquo;s Taxi Driver. Here, we deal with a case of mistaken identity. Henry Fonda is Manny, a man who sees his life fall apart when he&rsquo;s mistaken for a criminal. Film showcased in dialogue with ragtag, by Giuseppe Boccassini.</p>

Thermes (2010)

Banu Akseki

<p>Banu, mother and son win a voucher for a spa, but what could be quality time spent with the family turns into a deliberate labyrinthine mismatch, where the water submerges incommunicability.</p>

Things Unheard Of (2022)

Ramazan Kilic

<p>When the television stops working, a little girl finds a way to cheer up her grandmother. And so the stories begin.</p>

Thread (2022)

Abigail Smith

<p>Threaded film</p>

Tio Kevin (2022)

Kayla Fragman

<p>Memory is something tricky. And when we harbour feelings of admiration for those close to us, our perception of reality becomes blurred (almost always). What Kayla Fragman does, they who are descendant of Portuguese immigrants in Canada, is to bring their camera to recapture that admiration. From a house full of childhood memories, they talk about Jos&eacute;, the man who was the grandfather and father of these two, Kevin and Kayla. This is a documentary that does not judge anyone, does not try to create heroes, nor myths. After all, love always conquers death.</p>

Secaderos (Tobacco Barns)

Rocío Mesa

<p>A tiny rural village is a paradise for a city girl and a prison for a local teenager. Two parallel stories take place among tobacco drying rooms during a summer full of magic realism.</p>

Today, I Will Be The Bread

Andy Cahill

<p>A delirious animation to the rhythm of a matryoshka that&rsquo;s being deconstructed, among buns, hands, and the consumption of cigarettes.</p>

Trabalho (1978)

Autor Desconhecido

<p>A film that in 1978 showed almost only machines. Manual labour was gradually being replaced by technology. With an amazing use of sound and music.</p>

Trenque Lauquen (Part II)

Laura Citarella

<p>A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who mysteriously never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right but is anyone? This sudden run away becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of the heart of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village in the countryside, governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything, like the shadows that invade the world after the twilight hour.</p>

Trenque Lauquen (Part I)

Laura Citarella

<p>A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who mysteriously never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right but is anyone? This sudden run away becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of the heart of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village in the countryside, governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything, like the shadows that invade the world after the twilight hour.</p>

Trip (2022)

Lilly Creightmore

<p>In a totally literal sense Lilly Crieghtmore embarks on a very personal, and quite romantic, journey that takes her from the US to the UK and back via Iceland and Southern Africa. Her map is unconventional: it&rsquo;s following psychedelic rock bands, The Black Angels Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sonic Boom ou Roky Erickson. The film is an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the bands she accompanies, which translates into an immersive experience of sounds, rhythms and conversations</p>

Uncle Vakho’s Dream (2022)

Joanna Rój

<p>Vakho lives a secluded, penitent life in a deserted village in the Kazbegi mountains in Georgia. The trauma that haunts him has no resolution.</p>

Villeneuve (2015)

Agathe Poche

<p>In the early 1970s, the neighborhood of Villeneuve, in Grenoble, was prepared so that anyone of any class or background could settle in and live in the best possible way. This documentary sees how the generation of children of the first inhabitants relates to what they inherited.</p>

Mužné hry (Virile Games)

Jan Švankmajer

<p>When a football game becomes an odyssey of inventive mutilations.</p>

VO

Nicolas Gourault

<p dir="ltr">A deadly accident between a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets off an investigation about the role of human workers in the training of driverless cars. Testimonies from vehicle operators guide us through a night shift where the landscape merges with data from the car&rsquo;s sensors.</p> <p><br /> &nbsp;</p>

W O W (Kodak)

Viktoria Schmid

<p>&quot;Five... four... three... two... one,&quot; chants an older man into the microphone. He replaces the obligatory unspoken &quot;zero&quot; of the countdown with a dynamic backward twist of his upper body. The point of his finger, which twists backward with him, provokes a change in the shot to reveal the view of a bulging baroque dust cloud being sucked inside a building by a nearly unstoppable force, from which, in a din, an imposing structure in its entire, undamaged splendor emerges. This process occurs five times altogether from various perspectives and distances. One seems reminded of the legendary explosion at the end of Michelangelo Antonioni&acute;s <em>Zabriskie Point</em>, but with a decisive difference: Viktoria Schmid re-demolishes. Her working material comprises private recordings from viewers who witnessed the demolition of the building parts of the Eastman Kodak company complex in Rochester and published their self-filmed documentary clips onto YouTube. Many of them had worked in the factory, which makes them witnesses to the destruction of their former workplace. Viktoria Schmid compiled the clips and played them backwards. In the regenerative movement, the implosion turns into an act of constituting. And thus, the reducing to rubbles of the building parts becomes a spectacular reconstruction, accompanied by the amazed shouts of the audience (&quot;WOW&quot; is the palindrome of the moment!). In this way, using digital means, a party-like tribute is paid to the glorious resurrection of the factory for color-sensitive analogue film. <em>(Melanie Letschnig)</em></p>

Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans (Watch the Fire or Burn Inside)

Caroline Poggi Jonathan Vinel

<p>Between the devastation of forest fires and the exaltation of a woman entranced by fire, the element is put forth as a form of rebellion and purification. Reflection and ecstasy burn in the same fire.</p>

Watcher (2022)

Chloe Okuno

<p>In her first feature film, Chloe Okuno takes Alfred Hitchcok&rsquo;s Rear Window and moves it to Bucharest, where a young New Yorker and her husband, Francis, go to live. For him it&rsquo;s a homecoming, for her it&rsquo;s a new world. Not knowing the language or even how to ocupy her days, Julia begins to feel the weight of her isolation, but also something else: the constant and oppressive gaze of a neighbour. But no one seems to give credit to her fears.</p>

When I Close My Eyes I See Everything

Alexandre Alagoa

<p>A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.</p>

O trabalho liberta? (Work Liberates?) (1993)

Edgar Pêra

<p>A film-essay that poses the demolishing question, overshadowed by the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, about the liberating power of work to figures like Paulo Varela Gomes, Ant&oacute;nio Vaz Pinto, Paulo Borges, Agostinho da Silva, Herman Jos&eacute;, Irm&atilde;os Catita, among others.</p>

Workers Leaving the Factory - Harun Farocki (1995)

Harun Farocki

<p>The German director is dedicated to creating a film in which he collects images of &ldquo;factory exits&rdquo; over the course of many films that expand many decades and travel across multiple countries. Whether staged or documentary, Farocki looks at how cinema sees this moment of limbo.</p>

Workers Leaving the Factory (again) (2012)

Katharina Gruzei

<p>The power of a mass of workers, the vast majority women, when they leave a factory, and which slowly but inevitably, resembles a resistance movement. They&rsquo;re leaving at night; will they go safely? What bargaining power could this human mass have?</p>

Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai)

Ben Russell

<p>The factory being left is a construction site populated by a huge number of Southeast Asian laborers who build skyscrapers with the mechanical precision that befits a neo-Fordist ideology.</p>

Workers Leaving the Googleplex

Andrew Norman Wilson

<p>A damning critique of the social stratification at Google workers and the layers of privilege offered to some but not others.</p>

ya nadie cabe en este mundo, y menos el

Nigel Gavus

<p>A personal and chaotic diary that jumps between memories, space, and time to show us the streets of Mexico City in December 2022.</p>

You Have to Come and See It (Tenéis que venir a verla)

Jonás Trueba

<p>COMPETITION A couple who have found a house near Madrid receive another couple, friends, who have come to see their new house and spend the afternoon. The conversation is pleasant and the film touches on normal themes around the first steps into adulthood, like the things that change when new human beings arrive in the world, and the things that remain, like the companions of a lifetime. A film that begs to be seen.</p>

Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas (Yuku et la fleur de l'Himalaya)

Arnaud Demuynck Rémi Durin

<p>At the summit of the highest mountains on Earth lives a plant that radiates eternal light: the Himalayan flower. Yuku goes in search of it to give it to her grandmother, who has announced that she will soon follow the blind mole into the depths of the earth. Yuku has a long journey ahead, strewn with obstacles&mdash; including the rats that live under the castle, the meadow of voracious crows, an enchanted forest where it is easy to get lost&mdash;and, worst of all, the bridge of fear that is guarded by the wolf! With her ukulele and her songs, Yuku will make many new friends who will be precious to her as she embarks on the adventure of life.</p>

Musik (Music)

Angela Schanelec

<p>Leading contemporary German filmmaker Angela Schanelec (<em>I Was at Home, But&hellip;</em>, NYFF57) is singularly adept at creating dramas of unexpected catharsis via the most oblique narrative strategies. Her latest film,&nbsp;<em>Music</em>, pushes this approach to new levels of emotionality. Using abstract gestures and broad narrative ellipses, yet still managing to plumb the depths of its characters&rsquo; complicated traumas,&nbsp;<em>Music</em>&nbsp;tells the story of a young man and woman unknowingly united by the same violent death. Brought together by fate and horrible irony, Ion (Aliocha Schneider) and Iro (Agathe Bonitzer) first meet in prison, where he&rsquo;s an inmate and she&rsquo;s a guard; they kindle a romance fomented by passion for classical music and opera, followed by marriage and children. Yet as in all tragedies, the past returns to haunt them. Inspired by the Oedipus myth, Schanelec has created an alternately austere and vivid portrait of grief and redemption through art told with her distinctive compositional rigor.</p>