Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema

Claves, 2: We will return younger(en)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Second episode, evoking the border between fiction and documentary. With his film Tire dié (1960), the Argentinian Fernando Birri proposed this manifesto: to create a realistic and critical national cinema, closer to society without falling into populism.

Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country(en)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles.

La identidad que hemos construido(es)

Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one explores the memory’s strength, resistance and love for life of these three women.

Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman(en)

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. First episode: the influences of Cahiers du cinéma, the New Wave, Italian neorealism. In Brazil, Cinema Novo draws inspiration from these models while drawing on the historical and cultural singularity of the country. The documentary was awarded the Prix Makhila d’or at the Festival de Biarritz, France.

La Perra(es)

In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.

Astrobonde(pt)

O Sol Sempre Está(pt)

Two friends, a boat, and a sun that always is.

Lia(pt)

Regreso a Raqqa(es)

Mémé(fr)

Adapted from famous French actor Philippe Torreton’s best-seller, GRANDMA is the portrait of the actor’s grandmother: a modest, unique but universal Norman peasant. Enriched with amateur films, nourished by major historical events, GRANDMA also tells the story of the end of a world, that of the countryside of our grandmothers, before the abyss of modernity.

Toubib(fr)

The Waves(eu)

Seven women, guided by a therapist gradually put their bodies into motion. As the dance therapy progresses they give us the moving testimonies of the physical and psychological tortures that they underwent during their incommunicado detention in Spain in the 2000s.

The Real Miss America(en)

Henry Fonda narrates this documentary short film produced by the United States Department of Defense as a recruiting tool for women to join the armed services. Women's training, social life, and living situations are depicted, as well as a wide variety of jobs in which women could serve in the various branches of the military. Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett speaks to the importance of women as part of the national defense, and General Matthew Ridgway praises women for their service in combat-support functions.

The Road to Canterbury(en)

Nearly 1,400 years ago St Augustine made Canterbury the center of the Christian faith in England. This is an exploration of the road which leads from London to Canterbury - a road which has many associations with such historical figures as Chaucer, Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Pepys and King Charles II. The journey ends with an exciting portrayal of the glorious cathedral of Canterbury.

The Gospel of Jesus's Wife(en)

Was Jesus married? Who was Jesus's wife? Controversial and incredibly fragile, a document stirs up debate surrounding more than 1,500 years of Christian beliefs.

Lesvia(el)

Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. When they find paradise in a local village and carve out their own queer lesbian community, tensions simmer with the local residents. With both groups claiming ownership of lesbian identity, filmmaker Tzeli Hadjidimitriou—a native and lesbian herself—is caught in the middle and chronicles 40+ years of love, community, conflict, and what it means to feel accepted.

Creating Our DNA(en)

A short documentary following Little Mix after winning The X Factor and the release of their first two singles from their debut album ‘DNA’.

Heritage art concept project (third row) Vahagn Davtyan, Nahapet Quchak, Hamo Sahyan, Nerses Shnorhali, Razmik Davoyan, Hovhannes Grigoryan, Aram Pachyan(hy)

Kings of Convenience: Back from Hibernation(en)

Kings of Convenience return with the first new music in 12 years. This documentary shares the band's history, as well as their journey to create the 2021 album ‘Peace Or Love’.

Prism(fr)

For Prism, Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels-based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris-based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to work together on a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the biased limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin. Such white-centricity means that the photographic media assume, privilege and construct whiteness.