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Journalist Clément Hamelin seeks to understand why young people of his generation are converting to evangelicalism.

I left the psychiatric hospital yesterday. I filmed myself in the shower of the CAPSUL 17 emergency unit. I felt the need to create something that would bear witness to the mixed-state episode I went through. This is the film made during my bipolar episode.

A young criminal's dreams of a big deal go south as he goes on a surreal voyage through life and death.

The ten-minute Pragmatognossia plays with the letters of the Greek alphabet, through the voice of a small child who is coming out into the world for the first time. Old photographs, worn documents, faded seals, handwritten notes, tax registers, invoices, stamps, ... cracks in time but also little flames that keep the entire memory of the state alive, frame by frame".

Perspective and permanence inform Ben Russell’s playful La Prospettiva (1653), filmed in the Colonnade at the Palazzo Spada in Rome, capturing the central composition of the Baroque illusionism masterpiece but also modest moments of the labour dedicated to its upkeep.

Improvisational found-footage film made using a moviola

In the wake of a college student's unexplained disappearance, her classmates struggle to make sense of her absence, a mosaic of overlapping memories, fragmented conversations, and shifting perspectives begins to reveal the complex truths they have concealed from one another, and from themselves.

Sultan, an illiterate elderly woman, searches for her hospitalized husband's room. Wandering through the hospital's labyrinthine corridors, she crosses paths with completely different lives and confronts the harsh realities of life.

The groundbreaking visual effects of F.W. Murnau’s FAUST have remained shrouded in mystery since its release 100 years ago. Now, the publication of a long-lost book assembled by the filmmaker’s closest collaborators has revealed the spectacular secrets of this expressionist masterpiece. Utilising a trove of newly-unearthed sketches and on-set photographs, this exclusive Program Notes short documentary by Amos Levin and Ben Porro explores the artistic vision and technical wizardry behind the film’s most astonishing sequence: the flight around the world.

A short train ride in a foreign country

Lost deep in the woods, a hiker's journey takes an unsettling turn when he encounters a stranger.

Every day, people are on their phones scrolling TikTok with the algorithm built for them. A video about confidence becomes a gateway to the manosphere. A makeup tutorial leads to a spiral of unattainable beauty standards. Curiosity tips into radicalisation. The ‘Gendered Feed’ follows a team of young researchers who set out to understand how this happens, creating blank accounts, watching what the feeds become, and tracking how gender shapes the spiral.

This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy. The film reveals the full extent of the British government’s nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. 39,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen witnessed 45 atomic and hydrogen bombs and hundreds of radioactive experiments. The documentary exposes the debilitating health conditions that have blighted the lives of veterans, descendants and indigenous communities ever since.

Exploring the human realities of immigration through the intertwined journeys of three women—nurses who leave their home countries, the Philippines, Ghana, and India, to join the healthcare workforce in the United States. Their stories illuminate the emotional, economic, and cultural complexities of migration, revealing what it means to live between worlds while sustaining deep ties to families and communities across continents.

In the turning of night and day, one girl stays awake; the other seems to have lost her words. They exchange with each other, and their silence—is she her companion, or her reflection? The city will wear away in time, but some frequency still lingers in the damp dark.

This intimate documentary follows a bride-to-be who, according to Manding tradition, must spend the three days before her wedding in seclusion. Silence gives rise to questions: Was her mother afraid too? How can she be gentle, strong and true to herself? Between rituals and prayers, she enters a state of deep introspection and senses there is very much she has not been told.

A mother revisits her old family photographs, now damaged by floodwaters. As she sifts through the fading images, she and her son engage in occasional conversations about religion and marriage.

Accidentally locked out of the theater just minutes before curtain, two young actors and ex-lovers are forced to confront the unspoken truths of their breakup and the fear of a future about to tear them apart.