Encounter Love(2024)

My Dad is an Alien(zh)

The father who wants to become a full score alone to raise his daughter, even in order to let his daughter to go to a better school, by selling fried rice even saved up a set of school district housing, but just when everything life into the right track, a sudden accident, so that the daughter surprised to find out the identity of her father's "aliens" in the daughter's worshipful gaze, the old Jin can do anything to perform "super powers". Under his daughter's adoring gaze, Lao Jin performs his "supernatural powers" in an all-powerful manner. However, what is the hidden agenda under the well-intentioned lies of Chinese parents? Behind the flourishing love, will the daughter be able to see through the deep secrets of her "alien father"? An adventure of love and wonder begins…

Box(en)

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

12(en)

After blowing his professional ballet career, John's only way to redeem himself is to concoct the demise of his former partner, Leah, who he blames for his downfall; he rehearses his salvation in his mind in the way that he rehearses a dance, but being able to break from the routine will be the key to his success.

Box(en)

A group of friends try to defeat an evil king, and meet some quirky characters along the way.

Box(en)

The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..

Angelique and the Sultan(fr)

Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars(ja)

Nobita helps Doraemon to create a space movie. After Dekisugi fails to help them, the duo rope in Shizuka, who prefers to make a film about dolls.

Fate(en)

Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. Two detectives are on the trail of a bizarre murderer intent on slaughtering his victims, then using them as real-life puppets in a tale that he is trying to tell.

Fight Club Rush 12(en)

Fight Club Rush 12 takes place Saturday, May 7, 2022 with 9 fights at Vasteras Arena in Västerås, Sweden.

HOME(es)

Using images from my childhood and phone calls from key people in my life, we explore my particular sense of what is home to me. The home is not a place but a sensation produced by many more common factors that characterize our generation.

Muse Video Collection dvd1(nl)

The Confirmation(en)

A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.

Cinderella(fr)

Sergei Prokofiev's setting of the fairy tale "Cinderella" premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in 1945. In 1986, Rudolf Nureyev, then ballet director of the Paris Opera, choreographed the ballet anew and transposed the story into a private cinema, with sets reminiscent of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." ARTE shows the Paris Opera performance from December 31, 2018.

Chances(en)

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Molly is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with Tom.

Elvy's World: So Ibiza!(nl)

Elvy is making every effort to win the Future Fashion Award in Ibiza. She meets a lot of special people, from world-famous DJs and stressed-out Beach Club owners, to fashion influencers and the daughter of a famous fashion icon. It will be the adventure of her life, but in the end it’s very different from what she had imagined...

¡A callarse!(es)

The period of violence in the village of El Remanso led them to remain silent for decades. However, the time has come to attend the meeting that could put an end to the silence.

As Long As We Go East(fr)

Through a journey across Europe, starting in Rennes, finishing in Saint-Petersburg, a team of young documentarists spontaneously and poetically engage with an experience of culture, languages and borders. The camera follows Tao, a blooming artist travelling by the means of her skateboard. Along the way they make insightful encounters and live unique experiences, through a variety of colours, landscapes, creative initiatives and incredible mouvements coming to sight progressively within their journey. This summer tale is an individual challenge, taking place through the lives of different encounters bringing out a single poetic line, a movement. Under the humble wheels of a skateboard hides a tribute to the old continent. Overall, questioning the individuality, the mass, and moreover, us, the European youth.

The last magician: O Bilembambudín(es)

Bilembambudin is the story of Aldana, an eight years old girl. Running away from the opera, Aldana follows Jeremías, an old wizard who guides her to the magic kingdom.

When Arabs Danced(ar)

Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity in relation to artistic expression and harmful stereotypes, through archival footage, interviews, and evocative performances.

Driving Miss Daisy(en)

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

Shadows of the Peacock(en)

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

You're Sleeping, Nicole(fr)

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.

October(ru)

Ira wanders around the streets of Moscow. She's pregnant with the child of Adrissa, an african student.

The Abusers of Virgin Girls(pt)

In São Paulo, the gang of the former pimp Marcus abducts another virgin woman late night. They trade the virgin girls with three wealthy sick old men that pay a little fortune to deflower the girls. Then the gang of sex maniacs kills the women and dumps their bodies in the backwoods. The police know that the gang has abducted sixteen women and they have already found ten bodies, but they do not have any lead to find the criminals...

Midnight Dancer(en)

16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.

Columbite Tantalite(en)

Short film about resource exploitation in Congo and video games in England.

In the Name of My Daughter(fr)

In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.

The Girl and the River(fr)

Nouk and Samuel love each other, but they are young and possessive and awkward. One day, Nouk abruptly loses Samuel, who finds himself in limbo.

Refugiado(es)

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

Chased by Dreams(bn)

The protagonist's job is driving across the country screening family planning films in villages, often meeting with unpleasant responses from his target audience. His faith in life is sustained by his love for his dream girl — a beautiful actress he saw crying away in a film five years ago and has haunted him ever since. Writer-director Buddhadev Dasgupta won the National Film Award for Best Direction.

Bagh Bahadur(bn)

Every year, Ghunuram takes time off from his job to prepare for and appear in a folk dance in his village. His special part of the performance is called the Tiger Dance. This year is special, too; he hopes to become engaged to the daughter of his fellow performer. But a circus with a newly captured leopard has come into town. What's worse, the woman Ghunuram had hoped to woo has gone gaga over a circus performer. Not to be outdone, he prepares for a last, tragic, performance in which the tiger meets the leopard. Winner of the National Film Award for Best Picture.

Utsab(bn)

Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When the mother reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret.

Gardish(hi)

Naive and easily impressionable Vidya Bhalla would like her husband to be a dashing hero, one who is not afraid of anybody, one who can easily jump into a fire to rescue someone, one who is strong & romantic. She sees all of these qualities in Shiva Sathe (Jackie Shroff), the son of Havaldar Purshotam Sathe, whose only dream is to see Shiva become a Police Inspector. Vidya informs her dad, Prithviraj, that she has found her dream man, the Bhallas and the Sathes meet and get the couple formally engaged.

Tricycle(tr)

Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.