This documentary about four women, victimised as teenagers by the same man, is an instant rebuttal to that most unsympathetic question: why don’t women just leave their abuser?
An intimate portrait of a composer reflecting on the birth of music, suspended between intuition and the meticulous work of shaping sounds, timbres, and rhythms. Drawing from childhood memories, marked by a home filled with music, Birkett revisits his relationship with the guitar and with free creation, both before and after theory.
The film explores an imposing building on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China. A pioneering architectural vision of its time that continues to resonate decades later.
A group of friends on vacation must put their trip on hold indefinitely to conduct an intensive search for Tuchi's lost ring beneath a deck. Tears, sweat, and adrenaline will be poured out in their quest to find the much sought-after ring.
In an empty studio space, three female filmmakers re-enact the testimonies of the survivors of sexual violence in Russia, using stop-motion, performance and pseudo-documentary rehearsals. As their fragile and sometimes ambiguous creative process unfolds, the filmmakers become both subjects and guides, inviting viewers into a shared gesture of remembrance, grief and empathy.
On October 16th, 1958, a family fled Indonesia. They spent a month at sea aboard the M.S. Sibajak on a voyage to The Netherlands. When they arrived, it was getting winter. Coming from the tropics, the cold was a shock. The family quickly noticed that the spirits who had always been with them in Indonesia were no longer there - they had left them along the journey.
Women reflect on their first year of motherhood and the many joys and challenges it brings – for parent and baby. A gentle, curious and informative conversational documentary about postpartum life, of sublime analogue beauty.
Lifelong Syrian friends Qusay and Nabil spend a day in their Berlin apartment, drifting through dreams, archival footage and present-day events to confront the shifting faces of political violence. Together, they hold on to love and care as the most radical acts of resistance.
This film essay is inspired by Leonid Trauberg's eponymous autobiographical text. It also sheds light on his public condemnation in 1949 as a leader of the "cosmopolitans," accused of "only causing harm to Soviet cinema," as well as his enthusiasm for silent slapstick comedies, the novels of P.G. Wodehouse and G.K. Chesterton, and his fascination with the lost FEKS film, The Adventures of Octobrine.