The Talk: True Stories About the Birds & the Bees

Lodz Symphony

A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time-warp of sad memory.

Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City)

Peter Hutton’s essay on the naturalization of the urban landscape. Voluptuously gray, worn and lived in, the city is like a stage set for an invisible drama.

Skagafjördur

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland.

Legacy

Story of an alien arriving on planet Earth, in search of a human specimen.

Good Old Cuttlas

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.

Color-Blind

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial legacy of a post-postcolonial present.

In Memoriam

A hotel room and a few sweets, their wrappers stacked like gold leaf... An interview with Chantal Akerman and ongoing coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and what emerges is a genuine tragedy, as simple as Racine's.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The classic tale of a loveable, outcast hunchback and the gypsy girl he adores is transformed into a musical, warmhearted animated classic in this delightfully updated version of a stirring masterpiece.

Hakob Hovnatanyan

Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.

Una vez iniciado el fuego

Documentary on the recording of the Album Una vez iniciado el fuego by Sakatumba

Luanda ya no es de San Pablo

Portrait of the Angolan people.

Maputo meridiano novo

Long Meg And Her Daughters

In a strange, faraway land Long Meg contemplates nature and all its wondrous mutations and oddities.

Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts

Rainer Kohlberger’s abstract film was created entirely without a camera. Through digital algorithms, he precisely arranged a rhythm of light and shadow that pulsates off the screen into our physical space with blinding intensity. The presence of light is almost felt as we are sucked into the image to become its ghostly accomplice. As we leave the theatre, the optical vibrations continue to haunt us.