Work with black, unreliable outlines and the whitest of spaces. The straight black line transforms into a humanised image and a cube. Now, the two test each other. “Attempts at destroying the obstacle turn into acceptance, when the character recognises the obstacle as part of itself,” is how the director describes the film’s plot laconically.
In the deep countryside of Latgale, Latvia, relatives and neighbours, near and far, come together to celebrate the last important ritual of human life. A series of events and details reveal a picture in which two different eras overlap.
Two little birds live happily together in a tree. One is white, the other is black. One day, some red birds happily fly into a hole at the top of the tree. The two birds try to get in but are rejected. They will do everything they can to be accepted.
Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter—only she can't cook and shopkeepers are on strike.
Gisberta Salce, called Gis by her friends and family, was a Brazilian trans woman who was tortured for days and at last brutally murdered by 14 young men in Portugal in 2006.
On the heels of successfully escaping a deadly digital trap, the members of the Justice League emerge in their own world to discover that Grimm, ravenous creatures from Remnant, have overtaken Earth! In order to defeat the monsters, they must call on their new friends – Team RWBY – for help!
In 1980s Hollywood, action star Johnny Cage is looking to become an A-list actor. But when his costar, Jennifer, goes missing from set, Johnny finds himself thrust into a world filled with shadows, danger, and deceit. As he embarks on a bloody journey, Johnny quickly discovers the City of Angels has more than a few devils in its midst.
The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate documentation about space and memory. Drawing inspiration from travelling around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds.
SCALA!!! Programmes - is an animated love letter that uses the Scala’s infamous poster-sized programmes to celebrate the feature length documentary, SCALA!!! Directed by Jane Giles & Ali Catterall and the music of by Barry Adamson (It’s Business as Usual).
Through the eyes of a young girl, we follow her family’s emotional journey after the mother suffers a miscarriage. They live 40 days of darkness, isolated at home, until they come to terms with both life and death, allowing them to move forward. We will travel through the child’s art and memories to dive into this story.
Birthed from a personal experience and a poetic text written by the artist, the film dives into the feelings of loss, helplessness and overwhelm during the process of accepting the hurt inflicted by others. These emotional wounds are translated visually into a physical and pulsing presence that represents a dark and unsettling image of femininity.
In this digitally rendered speculative future, the dead from the war on Ukraine are given the choice to live again – to reckon with past trauma. Painful memories can be removed and archived to a living monument, revisited with an emotional distance; full memory immersion for perpetrators ensures they never forget.