NUMANITE

Luthière(nl)

Elara, a young violinist, is madly in love with Lucio, a Sicilian student. Their love blossoms, but suddenly Lucio must return to Italy to care for his sick niece. Elara struggles with loneliness and sadness, until she finds new inspiration in a dream.

Luca(en)

Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.

Magic to Win(cn)

Nobody knows that Professor Hong Sum Kwai is actually the Water Magician, one of the five elemental wizards. One day, Hong accidentally loses his magical powers, which are transferred to his student Cheng Meisi. The girl happily uses the superhuman abilities she acquired by luck in life, at school, and on the volleyball court, but those powers also land her in trouble as a war of wizardry rages around her... Fire Magician Bi Yewu is desperate to turn back time to change a tragedy in the past, but to do so he needs to bring together the powers of all five elemental wizards. Wood Magician Gu Xinyue foresees catastrophe if time is warped, so he alerts the other wizards - including Earth Magician Ling Feng and Metal Magician Charlie - to join forces and prevent it from happening...

Once on This Island(en)

Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a bet of what is stronger, love or death.

When Big People Lie(en)

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

Drowning(es)

Aura, a remote accountant with a monotonous routine, has her usual life interrupted one night due to an unexpected and unfamiliar leak. While trying to survive in her surroundings, Aura discovers that in the water exists a comforting escape from her mundane life, but at the same time, it condemns her.

The Other Side(is)

A silent short. Water, footsteps, darkness and light. Shot and edited entirely on a phone in a single day.

Elemental(en)

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.

How We Became Friends(en)

two people decide who will save a dog inside their pool.

Égouts de Paris : L'Envers de la Ville Lumière(fr)

Vorsicht Grundwasser(de)

Educational short film about ground water

The Water(es)

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.

Water Bottle Blues(en)

A man supposed to buy drinks for a party, gets confused and buys water bottles…

The Dragon's Treasure(fa)

An 8-year-old girl named Sayeh goes on an adventure in search of the dragon's treasure to save her grandmother's village from drought. But she doesn't know that the real treasure is water and she must fill up all the aqueducts.

Les Pouvoirs thérapeutiques de l'eau(fr)

WICCA_02(en)

A man searches hopelessly for his friend in the woods.

Did It Satisfy Your Desire?(pt)

A man tries to satisfy his desire after seeing a commercial about a new type of water that is coming to the markets.

Puddle(da)

In the late afternoon, a young girl sits by herself, waiting to be picked up as the last child. At home, an unsettling reality awaits marked by her father’s increasing stress. Longing for her father’s warmth and support, she is overshadowed by his burdens, as the house starts to leak.

Subatlantic(en)

Appealing concurrently in this video essay to various meanings of the term “Subatlantic”—a climatic phase beginning 2500 years ago, as well as the submerged regions of the Atlantic—Biemann immerses her camera deep in oceanic waters to ponder upon the entanglements of geological time with that of human history. As the voice-over speaks the accounts of a she-scientist traversing the pan-generational timescales of the Subatlantic, we navigate between the palpable evidence of the dramatic human-induced ecological alterations to the world and those that are simply beyond our comprehension.

Water(bo)

A Tibetan woman collects water near her family's yak farm and brings it back home 80-pounds full, in a ritual that takes her an hour to complete. A selection from Peabody Award-winning documentarian Bari Pearlman’s Nangchen Shorts series.