When Hugh finds out that his video, his artwork has been stolen, re-contextualised, and turned into a viral meme by a TikTok user, he embarks on an internet odyssey, interrogating people.
When Hugh finds out that his video, his artwork has been stolen, re-contextualised, and turned into a viral meme by a TikTok user, he embarks on an internet odyssey, interrogating people.
2021-11-02
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The discovery of @SantaRamonaMemes, a Tiktok account led by a group of tweens, threatens the adult world of a stagnant town. The Santa Ramona Meme Show is a short film that shows the ridiculous fight between modernity and tradition, entering into a town full of boomers, cringe and cream-filled croissants.
The “Bowlingtreff” is a bowling alley situated right in the centre of Leipzig opened in July 1987. At that time the quality of life in Leipzig and the whole GDR got worse. Houses collapsed because of poor conditions, public life and amusement was on a very low level. The “Bowlingtreff” was not merely an urban entertainment centre but a revolution in those days. Built with the help of hundreds of volunteers without permission of the state authorities in Berlin the building expresses a free and international architecture known as postmodernism. It is an architecture that was never seen before in Leipzig. Marble and parquet on the floor, a glass roof and beautiful pink pillars. The atmosphere was western as time witnesses remember it.
"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing, to the bitter end?" In the twilight of his second seven-year term, François Mitterrand was alone. Ravaged by illness and abandoned by a large majority of the Socialist Party, who would not forgive him for the disastrous outcome of the March 1993 elections, the Head of State was preparing to tackle a second round of cohabitation with the right wing. However a series of unexpected tragedies and revelations would arise, casting a shadow over the end of his reign…
Hubert Butler smuggled Jewish people into Ireland before WW2, then exposed the scale of the genocide of Serbs in war-time Croatia. He was silenced in Ireland, but went on to become an overnight publishing success at the age of 85.
An investigating officer is assigned to investigate few brutal murders, where he zeroes in on Ravindra, a criminal lawyer who has penchant for secretly committing murders as the mastermind behind the crime.
The adventures of a group of passionate and fearless young children. One girl and four boys.
In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn between the president and the parliament, appointed without necessarily being elected but responsible for everything, is at the center of debate. With the exception of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 and 1986-1988), deliberately left out because of his image as French President, those who governed France for the past 35 years agreed to discuss the exercise of power, as seen through archive footage, but also how they experienced it personally. Filmed in the same studio and sitting in the same chair, 12 French prime ministers talk freely about their time in office, from their appointment until their resignation.
Heidi, a professor of astronomy at a prestigious university, is convinced that a rare planetary alignment which occurs every couple thousand years is the key to getting an observatory for her students. But August, a hotshot archaeologist and the newest history professor, might be either the answer or the downfall of her research.
A 45-minute absurdist musical special built around the works of Dutch writer Gerard Reve and presented by the man himself. Featuring poems, songs, sketches, alcohol, tango and a rather special donkey.
A celebration of the incredible career of Australian television legend Bert Newton. With reflections from Tracy Grimshaw, Hamish Blake, Shaun Micallef and Eddie McGuire.
A devoted fan, head over heels in love with the locally famous actress Samanalee Fonseka, asks a friend's help to make a video to convey his love and ask for her hand in marriage. After changing his day to day life drastically, the fan starts to behave somewhat odd.
A film record of an exhibition of the late work of Paul Cezanne, organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris. The camera moves across details of paintings, as well as details of Cezanne’s studio, providing an intimage, close-up view of the artist’s work. The narration is provided by Cezanne’s own words, taken directly from records of correspondence. 22nd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival Participation- Communication Competition, 1978.
In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme Roussel, the main investigator of this case, believes that he will make him confess to other unsolved crimes in Toulouse. Two ex-prostitutes give a series of names of presumed accomplices of the killer, among them Dominique Baudis, then president of the CSA. He decides to face the case alone. Around him, it is silence: not an official support of his political family. Almost twenty years later, we return to the Baudis affair to try to understand it, with the testimonies of Pierre and Benjamin Baudis, his sons, François Hollande, Camille Pascal and the main protagonists.
Nour is a 13-year-old orphan living in the countryside in the early 1980s. He is smart, but is also a compulsive liar with vision problems and wears eyeglasses that don't quite remedy his weakened eyesight. To gain the respect of his fellow classmates, he ventures inside a haunted house right in front of the school, one that all the kids are afraid to enter. Inside, he finds a solitary old man who's hiding from the world. A friendship and apprenticeship are born between the boy and the old man, initiating a journey of self-discovery that lies at the very heart of this light-hearted drama.
A mockumentary dark comedy where a camera crew follows four hitmen who end up getting killed in the infamous Coda Teahouse Massacre.
Alonzo Bodden returns with a comedic look at the historical inaccuracies of the present and past in an all-new stand-up comedy event that exposes the hypocrisy - and hilarity - of modern day culture.
In this comedy special, the legendary Artie Lange hosts a line up of the most deranged and hilarious minds in comedy that's not for the faint of heart. Features Mike Wilmot, Mike Ward, Gina Yashere, Luenell, Jimmy Carr and Gilbert Gottfried.
In this hilarious new comedy special, stand-up Brad Williams tackles race and political correctness, as well as how his father raised him to deal with adversity.
Satirical comedian Ben Gleib, dubbed the "next big thing" on Esquire's comedian list, performs his first one-hour comedy special where he tackles social media, singledom, vegetarians and everything in between.