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"For months we experimented and represented ourselves, starting with simple walks in search of material for a thesis. How can we visually recreate a memory? We walked and filmed, photographed and painted, got to know each other and told our stories. An experience transformed into a story that speaks of a shared journey, made up of filming, changes of season, conversations about the moon, and exchanges of techniques. Inspired by “Dark Side of the Moon,” we tried to represent the intimate and personal emotions that came to us through the album. Each song has a language, each movement a color, each sound an expression. What remains today, half a century later? Something inexplicable, perhaps. A wonderful creation of friendship and mutual artistic esteem, the (re)creation of multiple memories, which overlap like membranes on the screen. - Erik Negro
Clara is a teenager growing up in a small indigenous community high in the Andes. Her adoptive mother, a midwife who took her in as a baby, has taught her the ancient songs used to guide women through childbirth, melodies passed down for generations, believed to bring new life safely into the world. But while her voice carries on this tradition, her dreams lie elsewhere: she longs to leave the mountains behind and become a folkloric music star in the big city.
Facundo is an eccentric man with a variety of jobs and interests, but few people remember one of his greatest talents. After years of being sidelined in the industry, he receives a call with an offer he can’t refuse. He’ll become The Deliverer once again.
Hayato Sumino performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor at the Wiesbaden Kurhaus in Germany with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu as part of Europiano.
A love letter to the world of freaks, this documentary retraces the birth of Horrorland, voted Europe's Best Scream Park, as well as the love story between Cristina Raya and David Moreno, the two main driving forces behind this Catalan theme park. From St. Louis to Vilassar de Dalt, by way of Newcastle, the camera accompanies them on their odyssey to build a dream called Horrorland.
At summer camp, eleven-year-old Dima is used to protecting his older brother, Semyon, a teenager with special needs. After a humiliating conflict with their peers, the brothers head into the forest, where they must confront their own fears, resentments, and unspoken love for each other. This is a story about growing up, the fragility of family ties, and the search for intimacy in a world that isn't always willing to accept those who are different.
During a documentary residency in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba, a filmmaker befriends Sara, a seven-year-old girl who moves between San Pablo de Yao and La Nave. Together, they play and explore a world where Sara is simply a child; within this everyday intimacy, traces of the island’s crisis quietly emerge. The filmmaker transforms this bond into a letter to Sara—a return to those shared days, and a way to think of her from afar after they part.
An emotionally layered drama about memory, legacy, and the cost of love, set against the haunting world of music and cinema.
In 1971 reporter Alec Shimkin discovers a secret US-led military campaign: Operation Speedy Express. This discovery may reveal war crimes on an immense scale. Yet nobody knows about Alec’s scoop, who went missing-in-action in Vietnam himself. In Alec’s footsteps, Soldier’s Bones searches for Speedy’s deadly echo in the Mekong Delta.
Upon a date with another man, John was drugged and all his money stolen. He has no choice but to turn to his brother, Frank, for help; a small-time gangster looking for his next fight.
A teenage boy decides to pick up skateboarding as a means of making friends.
An unexpected road trip brings a dysfunctional family together for one last journey with their elder, sparking moments of connection, joy, and reconciliation.
When a folk band struggles completing their sophomore album, they summon a Norse god to help them finish it.
Song of No is a short animated documentary that traces people’s stories of street protests as vital spaces for learning, invention, and collective exchange.
Leaving home, a young footballer finds himself unable to outrun the emotional ties and unspoken truths he hoped to leave behind.
Two men arrive at a silent Buddhist meditation retreat expecting stillness. In the quiet, they begin to reveal who they really are.
