Exile is not the subject of the narrative. Polynices, banished from the city, is not the protagonist but rather a figure of omission, reduced to a shadow. A shadow whose traces can be discerned only through contemplative or conceptual effort.
Artist Salvatore Del Deo arrived in Provincetown, a small town in Massachusetts, as a young man in the 1940s and never left. This is the story of a town seen through an artist’s eyes, an elegy for bygone days.
After parting ways with her boyfriend, a young woman embarks on a quest for new love, navigating a series of awkward and humorous dates. Her three friends follow along in their group chat, offering commentary and support as she searches for the right match.
A documentary series following a family investigation. Sisters, whose parents died under mysterious circumstances, return to the site of the tragedy. In the series’ first two episodes, they seek to uncover the details of their family’s loss and explore whether childhood trauma can be healed.
In the Moscow Metro, a choir is formed from employees—cashiers, train drivers, and station workers—learning to sing under the guidance of an enthusiastic conductor. For a contest, the conductor discovers the opera “Flood”, which is going to be performed for the first time. The opera tells the story of the last day before the world’s end. Following a triumphant premiere, the choir sets off on its first tour, only to face a real catastrophe.
A filmmaker documents the final days of a crumbling cinema in Jordan, revealing personal stories during regional upheaval, and a quiet reflection on loss, memory, and resilience amid larger collapses.
Marcelo Peralta was a visionary musician who pioneered a distinctive style of Argentine jazz in the 1980s, based on northern folklore and filled with liberating energy. In the 1990s, he emigrated to Spain and developed an intense career, sharing stages and recordings with great musicians. He died prematurely at the age of 59 during the pandemic.
8000: An Art Odyssey (Anssi Kasitonnin maailma) is a documentary about the Finnish Ars Fennica awarded artist Anssi 8000. Anssi does everything his own way, and preferably with his own hands. The films follows Anssi as he prepares for the biggest exhibition of his life at Kunsthalle Helsinki, films a French short film with dreams of an Oscar award and develops a skate toy with a company based in Hong Kong. It is a warm and humorous story about passion, creativity – and how sometimes, doing things the wrong way is the right way.
During his daily visits to his ailing mother Rose, Tony helps her remember the past in this quietly beautiful portrait of aging, loss, and shared tenderness between mother and son.
A train carries sleeping passengers. The monotonous clatter of wheels marks the journey’s progress. What lies ahead, and how long will this night endure? No one knows. There is only memory. Or a dream. Or delirium.
The Russian North, in the basin of the Mezen River. For decades, spent rocket stages launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome have fallen here. The film is based on footage from the 2000s, shot by Chechen, the head of a scrap metal harvesting crew. With obsessive persistence, he spends months groping his way through northern forests and swamps in search of rockets.
“God seems to have forgotten me… Why hasn’t He taken me yet?” Sister Regina is 104 years old. In December 1940, when she was 19, her family was forced to leave Bulgaria. Salvador, the ship carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine, sank during a storm; Regina’s mother and brother perished. Having reached Jerusalem, the young Jewish woman converted to Christianity and became Sister Regina. Eighty-five years later, she continues her life of faith.
In the 1970s, Orlando Jesus was more than just a boxer: he embodied the tough spirit of Lisbon with its neighbourhood gyms, intense nights and marginal figures that shaped a generation. An intimate and imperfect portrait, where the camera captures the gestures and voices that still resist, preserving a time in the process of disappearance, the presence of Orlando Jesus and the Lisbon that shaped him.
Intimate conversations take place with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking women-identified cartoonists at The New Yorker magazine, who laugh, draw and reflect on the essential work of women cartoonists today and over the last century.