For many communities, video rental shops hold a dear significance: a place where anyone and everyone could rent a film. As they become a dying species, Rotterdam artist Gyz La Rivière shares the stories of the remaining few in The Netherlands and the Benelux.
While her daughters were reliving the past through the memories of a family album, LUZA shows Luzanira's routine; during her chores, she receives calls from their children who are getting ready to visit her.
An unknown woman arrives in Georgia. A gorge, a river, impressive mountains and cloudy landscapes receives her. She finds a strange house inhabited by other people in the same situation as herself. Russian filmmaker Vladimir Grishechkin, in majestic black and white, with silences and spaces that outweigh words, depicts a tale between the real and the allegorical about those who have decided to exile themselves and face its consequences.
B and S is the third letter in Lipika Singh Darai’s essay series. During the filmmaker’s imaginary conversations with her late grand aunt, she tells the story of B and S. As she starts, B and S appear, sharing their memories, negotiating the meaning of transness, love, loss, friendship and violence. A teak tree and a little parrot help Darai intertwine these narratives. The result is a personal, warm and heartfelt ode to friendship, and to building a different kind of home.
A chance encounter on Valentine's Day brings Hannah and Finn together as they race through New York City to return a lost engagement ring and save one couple's special day.
This documentary highlights the triumphs and challenges of individuals who have found strength, purpose, and camaraderie within their running community. The heartfelt message resonates far beyond the world of running, making it a must-see for audiences of all kinds.
A table of gay men with diverse ages, races and backgrounds gather in a Los Angeles bookstore to discuss Olufemi O. Taiwo’s book Elite Capture and the co-opting of identity politics (queerness especially) by hegemony. What follows is an unscripted conversation between the participants, including Matthew Lax as facilitator alongside founding member of the Radical Faeries, and Jungian psychologist, Dr. Don Kilhefner as co-facilitator.
Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. Based on the novel Courier’s Tales by Temo Rekhviashvili, who plays himself in the film, Anka Gujabidze crafts a poignant but humorous black and white photo adventure, in which a daily ride through the opulently dilapidated Georgian capital Tbilisi morphs into a nightmarish vision of poverty, corruption and estrangement.
Eva Giolo’s latest work takes us to Val Gardena, where people still speak Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language. Giolo subverts the usual representation of mountain communities to deliver a portrait of a precious cultural heritage in constant evolution. Here, the inhabitants preserve and nurture their culture for future generations with awareness of the world and creativity. Shot on 16mm film sensitive to the grandeur and fragility of nature, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths is an exquisite essay on the vital importance of linguistic diversity. Made in Ladin language.
The original film, titled The Death of Dracula (Drakula Halála) was producesd in 1921 as a Hungarian-Austrian-French co-production, one year before F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. Given its production date, it may be considered the first Dracula" film in the world. The original negative and copies of the film were destroyed during the Second World War. Although the original screenplay could not be located, a book of the same title was published by Lajos Pánczél after the film's release. A reproduction of the script was created based on the book, and then this "remake" of the original film shot using the reproduced script.
Audiovisual performance artist and filmmaker Kwon HeeSue creates an expanded cinema work that explores the maximum possibilities of film projection from minimal conditions. By turning the projector light toward the lens and altering the shutter speed, she plays with light, shapes and colours, bringing to life visual spaces imperceptible to the eye. A real-time fascinating sensory experience which emerges in the illusory distance between the image and the screen.
UFC Fight Night 250: Adesanya vs. Imavov was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on February 1, 2025, at the anb Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A middleweight bout between former two-time UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya and Nassourdine Imavov headlined this event.
The debut documentary by Bulgarian-born German resident and renowned photographer Pepa Hristova is set in the Strandzha mountains, the natural border between Bulgaria and Turkey. In that sparsely populated land and in one of the last primeval European forests is a crossroads between ancient rituals, nationalism, migration and anarchy, as the bleak past blends with modern-day threats in a terra incognita for the West.
Set in future Puerto Rico, follows Zur'na's quest to rescue her kidnapped brother from US colonial forces, unveiling a system oppressing her people along the way, accompanied by talkative neighbor Vyeñu.
Cast from humanity yet tethered to it – to be shipwrecked is to exist in this ambivalent space. Filmmaker Deniz Eroglu uses three independent episodes to probe this concept; a nursing home on New Year’s Eve, a sun-drenched Congolese family home and the medieval German countryside.
Mateo lives in a small village near the crater of a volcano. As the volcano awakens, Alejandra, his love, sees it as an opportunity to leave and explore the world outside, while Mateo wishes to stay. As everything threatens to fall apart, Mateo realizes he has nowhere left to hide, not even behind the volcano.