Black Beauties 2[2021]

Whatever It May Be(es)

Violeta, a manic and stalker mythomaniac, becomes obsessed with a client of her photocopier shop

Arctic Crimes : L'aube Sans Réveil(sv)

Zoey(en)

After losing his job, Tommy heads back to his home town of New York City. With zero job prospects, Tommy starts selling cocaine with Donnie, his brother, a veteran drug dealer. Tommy keeps seeing a gorgeous young woman, Zoey. But before he gets the chance things head sideways when she gets attacked in the street. Tommy fights off the attacker and finally meets Zoey. His life and outlook improve instantly as their relationship develops. But keeping his web of lies neat quickly proves futile.

City Without Nights(zh)

A Chinese drama

Fatherland(en)

After Carina walks away from her family, Thomas and their daughter Leah are left to pick up the pieces. Bit by bit Thomas's life falls down around him and he must fight tirelessly to keep it all together.

Driven to Abstraction(en)

Unravels a mutating tale of self-delusion, greed, and fraud---the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City's oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery's esteemed director the victim of a con artist who showed up with an endless treasure trove of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for many millions of dollars for fifteen years? Whatever the truth, two women from very different worlds were, wittingly or not, caught up in the greatest hoax ever of modern American Art.

Macadam Popcorn(fr)

Mathieu Sapin's next graphic novel is about French independent cinemas. Taking us on a journey across France, he explores the challenges facing this fragile cultural ecosystem. On his way, Matthew discovers a community of enthusiasts and the diversity of French offerings that is admired the world over.

No. 5 Reversal(en)

No. 5 Reversal opens with a close up sequence of two women in animated conversation, followed by an aural page/station structure. The film combines elements of horizontal and vertical montage in the soundtrack, using white noise, and radio static as a fragmentation device. The visually striking black and white photography weaves lyrical, pastoral nature with the de- and re- construction of civilization. No. 5 Reversal ends with a filmic signature, an image of its maker framed in front of a window against a backdrop of ruins.

The Merry Musicians(ru)

A stop-motion film based on the Grimm Brothers' folktale, "Town Musicians of Bremen".

Inspector Mom: Kidnapped in Ten Easy Steps(en)

A woman goes undercover at a dance studio to save her best friend from a kidnapper.

The House Was Quiet(en)

A portrait of an old school house on the tidal island of Eilean Seòna within Scotland's Inner Hebrides, accompanied by the Wallace Stevens poem 'The House Was Quiet.

Office Noise(da)

Up! Up! To the sky(en)

Spy vs. Spy(en)

The Black Spy/Man in Black and White Spy/Spy in White, characters created by cartoonist Antonio Prohías, are shadowy operatives with matching ensembles and pointy noses who are always scheming to foil one another.