Touch: The Forgotten Sense

Serviced(en)

Serviced explores touch based service businesses including cuddling, erotic massage, sex surrogacy and sex work. Meet the men who have foregone the 9-5 grind or are adding on a side-hustle service-based job. From cuddling to sex work we're looking at the world's oldest profession with eyes wide open.

The Knowledge of Healing(de)

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.

A TTouch of Magic for Cats(en)

Help your cat's physical mental and emotional well-being by learning how to do many of the circular TTouches, lifts and slides. A relaxed cat is a happy and healthy cat! The TTouch® can help correct undesirable habits, improve focus, promote healing, and create a closer relationship between you and your animal.

Girls & The Party(en)

While preparing for the anticipated summer party in a cramped bathroom, Mercedes navigates her blossoming desires.

Embrace(en)

A blind choreographer returns to the rehearsal room after years away. Dealing at the same time with the gradual loss of her visual memory, she must reconnect with touch in order to communicate with her dancers.

Matta and Matto(xx)

In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.

Most Flew South(en)

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?

Don't Touch the Bump!(en)

Three guys. Two gnomes. One epic adventure.

Touchy Feely(en)

Abby is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul thrives on routine, running a failing dental practice with his assistant and daughter Jenny. Suddenly, Abby develops an aversion to bodily contact, which not only makes her unable to do her job, but also severely affects her relationship with her boyfriend. As Abby navigates her way through an identity crisis, her brother's dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing touch.”

Touch(en)

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite another story.

Laibach: Divided States of America(sl)

Laibach North American Tour 2004 and Laibach live 13.12.2004 La Locomotive, Paris, France This Film is a unique document of the Laibach tour, during the traumatic post-election atmosphere in The USA, a country deeply divided by two opposite political and cultural poles. The tour has been therefore named "The Divided States of America Tour".

Me and the Voice In My Head(en)

Joe Tracini discusses life with Borderline Personality Disorder, a condition that has led to struggles with addiction, suicide attempts, and panic attacks that have ended his stand-up career. Joe hopes that by exploring his childhood, he can finally get a handle on his BPD and get through a stand-up comedy show that he hopes will re-ignite his career.

Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)(en)

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time. Shot in Joinville-le-Pont

"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist(en)

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.

Lords of Riga(lv)

Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their way through the urban traffic, they have become silent and sometimes unnoticed witnesses of everyday life in Riga as well as examples of our modern-day society. What is freedom to this bunch of rebellious messengers and where it ends?

Life of a Dog(en)

Quantum Code(lv)

Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs is a man who feels the world with each single one of his atoms and breaks the stereotype about physics as a dry and impersonal field of science. In parallel to splitting electrons in the laboratory, he seeks a connection to the Almighty, and is a dreamer, an exceptional scientist, family man and educator, socially active and civically minded. What allows him, unlike most of us, to be so harmonious and seemingly omniscient? Together with quantum physicist, theological authority and Latvian patriot Vyacheslav Kashcheyev, the film searches for the code to modern-day life.

A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan(en)

Colleagues and relatives reflect on the dynamic life of Irish writer Brendan Behan, beginning with his adolescent years as an activist and his affiliation with the IRA youth group, Fianna Éireann. Behan rises to fame as a poet and playwright and achieves international success in the wake of his successful autobiography, "Borstal Boy." But in his later years, Behan's prominence wanes as alcoholism, egotistical tendencies and a growing obsession with celebrity begin to overtake him.

The Woman Who is Awaited?(lv)

A film about a woman's role in the society.

In the Image of God(it)

The fourth generation in his family to be born intersex, Jewish Rabbi Levi was assigned the female gender at birth and grew up thinking he was sick and defective. "In the Image of God" tells the story of his struggles and transitions, culminating today in a life as a religious leader and an LGBTQI+ activist living happily in Los Angeles with his wife.