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He never scored a single goal as a professional, but he profoundly transformed soccer. Starting from nothing, Jean-Claude Darmon ushered in a new era for the sport: one of business and spectacle. Sponsorship, marketing, television rights—he designed it all, negotiated it all, and turned it all upside down. Between confidential agreements, daring moves, and ego rivalries, his rise to the top reads like an epic tale.
Dec 2025
Between notes and photographs from a baby album, this short film investigates what lies outside the frame. Starting from the director's mother's written records and childhood images in which her presence appears only in fragments — a hand holding, an arm supporting, a shadow on the edge — the film proposes a reflection on absence and the traces left in the visual narratives of family life. By weaving together facts and fabrication, the work reveals how family albums function not only as repositories of memory, but also as coming-of-age stories, full of choices, silences, and inventions. Between delicacy and humor, the film questions who appears and who is erased in these stories, exploring the invisibility of care work and its discreet permanence in the materiality of photography.
Seventh of the Journals. Filmed September 28, 2025, Interstate 95 adjacent to the George Washington Bridge, New York, New York
An independent filmmaker and a film historian discuss ideas about sound and image, documentary, and authorship, while planning a film about a (fictional) early cinema pioneer.
This first year, from suffering to freedom, bears witness to the rebirth of a liberated country. Surreal Syria, through the eyes of survivors of Sednaya, Adra, Mezze, and other Syrian prisons, tells the story of the dark cells, the lost years, and the endless wait of the faces hanging on the walls. It brings to life the voices that oppression could not silence, reviving in the streets on the first anniversary of freedom.
A painted paper cut out film celebrating movement and colour.
A surreal birthday spirals into chaos when a cousin ends up dead. As lies unravel, the party becomes a darkly comedic descent into family, guilt, and denial
An experiment with images I recorded and didn't record. An attempt at making a film about a film I didn't make.
When the artist loses inspiration, she turns towards the overlooked things that tend to fuel us the most
An intimate portrait of Victoria Chorale — a Singaporean, alumni community choir led by Nelson Kwei, as he prepares them for a return to the international competition stage in Tokyo for the first time in 18 years. And possibly also their last ever. CODA is an observation of the relationship between the music and its Singaporean makers.
Memory, fantasy, and cinema come to life as young filmmaker Adolfo walks along the studio-named streets of Jd. Hollywood, on his way to meet his ex-boyfriend, the Californian Vincent.
Four friends travel in a car to an unknown destination. Where are they going and why?
A young man finds himself in an extremely peculiar situation... Locked in a room, no one to contact, he just has to wait.
Jan 2026
An artificial intelligence company CEO orders the destruction of humankind, leaving a lone survivor to navigate the aftermath.
From a high school art class to a local radio station, the day-to-day lives of several women coalesce into a poetic documentation of women’s presence and physicality across everyday spaces.
A college campus is terrorized by a man who dresses as a rat and steals peoples' cheese.