A journey through the teenage years of a young filmmaker as she endures dysphoria and suffocation, while searching for herself through the lens of a camera.
Video Footages of various different perspectives on the bus that took 2 years to collect. Before combining those perspectives together, upon the same temporal field to recreate the space of a bus…
Nestled in the woods outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a sleepaway camp for kids who are nonspeaking. To express themselves, they must use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices that translate their composed messages into audible speech. Follow the lives and experiences of these campers as a series of immersive, vérité-style character studies.
A young South African woman from the outskirts of Cape Town learns the metaphors of life on the ocean as she prepares to compete in the Round Robben Island race with The Academy, an initiative of the historic Royal Cape Yacht Club.
Between Belgian colonial archives and images shot in the present, the violence of a dehumanizing economic system is revealed through the story of a couple forced to work in a mine.
An experimental essay on the technological evolution of the violence and control exercised by Israel over Gaza and the Palestinian people. In three movements, this first-person narrative combines personal and historical archives.
Summer, the Pont d’Arc, the Chauvet cave, tourists: the film presents a lively territorial study with musical accents that open up gaps in space and time. This is a dream chronicle of a drift along the Ardèche, between canoes and underground caves.
A pioneer in sound recording, Ludwig Koch was suspected by the Nazis of complicity in the Reichstag fire. After taking refuge in England, he specialized in recording birdsong. Blending contemporary imagery with his sound archives, the film retraces his journey.
Lost in her fears and fantasies, a young woman writes in a notebook. A young man finds this notebook on a train. Suddenly, they find themselves in the heart of a forest, in a nocturnal reality where dreams come to life.
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.