Emmaüs’ companions repair and resell donated items. Between the warehouse and the shop, a small group takes everyday life in a different direction, presenting people and objects with humour and tenderness.
An eight-year-old girl is found dead, killed by her parents. The investigation reveals a life of abuse. The filmmaker reads Frédéric Boyer’s eponymous book dedicated to this true crime story. From the story of an infanticide unfolds a meditation on our relationship with evil.
Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave stuck like a knife in the heart of Europe. Camera in hand, the filmmaker retraces his grandfather’s steps. As he strolls along, one encounter follows another, fragments of lives suspended in the shadow of war and censorship.
Based on a skin-deep montage of personal archives, this intimate and political evocation of a life uprooted from its roots is coupled with a painful evocation of Crimea, the homeland lost since the Russian invasion.
A film that emerges from the sonic and visual power of a concert by Croatian musicians Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and a performance by Dutch-Indonesian dancer Marije Nie. Historical denial, collective violence and resistance are intertwined.
A patient reverie on water in all its states, guided by the thought of Gaston Bachelard and Jean-Christophe Bailly. A journey for the eye towards the most penetrating of contemplations, where the transformation of the gaze that guarantees the preservation of living things takes place.
Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to go to their remote hometowns to visit their families and celebrate the festivities for New Year’s break.
The journey of a seed that departs from the archives of the Botanical Garden in Madrid, and ends in El Guayabo, an Afro-Peruvian village in the south coast of Peru, where the seed was originally collected in a colonial expedition around 1800. Believed to be extinct, the seed has been described in the diaries of a colonial botanist to be related to curative uses by pre-Columbian cultures, as well as to induce altered states of consciousness. Three female characters will carry the seed in a three chapter structure. Suspended in time, the seed is the medium that activates dialogues between the pre-Columbian world, colonial ruins, the unfnished project of modernity and a post-capitalist future.
Carlos Caro is a performer with over 40 years in show business, widely recognized by audiences and peers alike as the ultimate tribute to Zalo Reyes and one of the greatest in the game. But the act doesn't end when the curtain falls; in his daily life, Carlos never fully steps out of character.
After a year, Ariel tries to return to the passage where he grew up. Through a letter and a need to understand the reason and wherefores of things, he seeks to heal a deep wound that won't leave him alone.
A French nurse and an Italian photographer devote their lives to the Palestinian cause but make the ultimate sacrifice. This is a story about two Europeans who devoted their lives to the Palestinian cause and paid the ultimate price.
A daily life that renders invisible the invisible people of a polis that, in its dark nuances, permeates thousands of people who merely survive, or simply exist. As in the vast majority of cities across the globe.
Australia's most unusual triple-murder conviction – Why did Erin Patterson kill her lunch guests by serving them beef wellington laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms ?