Vasia, the son of a factory worker, is attracted by the romance of adventure. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunk who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia's last deed is catching a criminal and denouncing him to the militia.

On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in marked contrast to three intimate, human-scaled stories. In 1908, the university’s first female student gains admission into the prestigious botany department, confronting the sexism of both professors and peers. In 1972, amidst counterculture movements, a reserved student finds his attention captured by a fellow housemate and the geranium plant she studies. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong secures the help of a renowned botanist for an experiment on the old ginkgo tree.

President Mariano De Santis' term is coming to an end. Disparagingly nicknamed 'Cemento armato' (reinforced concrete) for his intractable nature and overly careful approach to politics, he has grown lonely in the echoing halls of the presidential palace, mourning the loss of his wife and listening to hip-hop. Before returning to civilian life, De Santis must make a series of bold decisions – a pair of presidential pardons and a groundbreaking policy bill – that will cement his legacy.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had practiced in the Auschwitz extermination camp, managed to escape from Germany. With the help of SS soldiers and the support of wealthy South American families, he went into hiding in Argentina. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay, with stops in the Brazilian jungle, the so-called Angel of Death organized his methodical disappearance and escaped any form of trial.

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

In the slow, sticky summer of late-90s Eastern Europe, twelve-year-old Ro sets out to procure a pirated copy of Eraserhead by David Lynch. Her journey—through crumbling friendships, stolen cigarettes, and VHS-era power games—unfolds in a world where childhood slips quietly into something else, and cinema becomes the only available glimpse of escape.

December 1999. I remember that, amidst the Millennium Bug anxiety, I went to the birthday of Enrico, a kid who lived with his family in an old and isolated farmhouse.

In Bratislava at the end of the 1980s, two estranged sisters try to make up with each other while balancing their private lives and careers.

Pyatigorsk, the foot of Mount Mashuk, the morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago, Lermontov and Martynov were friends, and now they have become irreconcilable enemies. There are only a few hours left before their duel, and their relatives, friends and acquaintances are trying to prevent the duel.

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.

Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the sanatorium exists in a realm where time is distorted—his father's death has not yet occurred, as time here lags behind the outside world by an undefined interval. Jozef's experiences become increasingly fragmented and dreamlike as he confronts various manifestations of his father, each representing different aspects of their relationship and his own psyche.

Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of the suicide of his father, a banker ruined by dark speculation in Icelandic minerals, he decides to take charge. An old friend of his father offers him the opportunity to join as a sailor.

A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.

Anya divorces her husband and returns to live with her aunt in a provincial town. Here she meets Boris, a young man who has been in love with her since childhood, and Mykolaienko, a successful businessman who also likes her. It would seem that everything is clear: Boris is much younger than Anya and she still treats him like a little boy, while she likes the businessman Mykolaienko and would not mind sharing her life with him, but life makes its own adjustments to their plans, and everything ends quite unexpectedly...

The idealistic journalist Sonja Waler is making every effort to provide financial assistance for the young doctor Albert Holm’s new invention, which is predicted to be able to save thousands of lives. She comes into contact with a cynical loan shark who ends up falling victim to Sonja’s altruistic plan.

The villagers cheerfully welcome the Red Brigade paratroopers who have arrived in the village for a rest. When the brigade commander, Ivanov, comes to stay at the priest's house, he falls in love with the priest's daughter. Their marriage plans are thwarted by religious prejudice, as the priest's daughter insists on having the wedding in church.

Social media sensation Magalie, known for posting shocking content, suffers a serious accident while filming one of her videos. She retreats to the mountains, accompanied by her assistant. Her peace is disrupted when a journalist begins blackmailing her.

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

An arthouse biopic about German Romanticist and writer Friedrich Hebbel.

A documentary about the French porn industry, focusing on French porn superstar Claudine Beccarie.

The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.

This is the failed love story between a farming cooperative president and his agricultural engineer. Their marriage breaks up soon after the wedding, and they are trying to put their life together. Life in a Romanian village during the Communist years is presented in all its misery and pretense, but with a light and tender loving humor. It was at the time an under-appreciated piece of propaganda subversion, made more subtle and effective by the director's attempt to pretend that it was not.

Women and men in the middle of the night, without their own clothes, without personal papers and money, without their car keys and mobile phones. In a deserted city, the only solution would be, regardless of how far home is, to walk alone all the way there.

The autopsy of a deceased girl finds that the victim had died long before the accident. Taking over the case, "Grandpa" and his assistant, Panaitescu, discover that the perpetrator of the false accident is being blackmailed.

A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity, an old, sick, beaten-down man shows up. No one seems to recognize him, but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.

Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.

Four girls in a settlement on the outskirts of Vienna. An afternoon is long. Especially for Manuela.

An all-girl Catholic boarding school near Vienna for the wealthy Austrian elite and their children. The school is thriving, but faith is declining and the upper floors are de­ser­ted. The head of the institution, a young energetic nun, fights with ardor against this decline. Martha, 12, one of the nun’s favorite pupils, is a devoted girl who wishes to expiate the sins of the world. Encouraged by the nun, she is given a penance belt and taken to the abandoned upper floor.

In Albania's post-communist landscape, a lonely mother, Mira, and her troubled teenage son, Toni, struggle through an outbreak of civil violence that tears their East European nation apart.

The life of a man after he experiences forgotten baby syndrome, unintentionally leaving his infant daughter in the back seat of his car.

Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve.

Sebastian, working as a store clerk, finds his ordinary workday shaken up when he meets Silo, a free-spirited wanderer. Together they smoke weed and dream of a one-way ticket to Brazil.

Based on a well-known tragedy involving the ruling family of Austria-Hungary in 1889.

A group of university students spend the holidays on the island of Texel. Sip feels attracted to Hans, a young artist, while Annie is in love with Peter. The arrival of the unhappy and confused Maja, who has run away from her husband's family with her young son, plays havoc with Peter's feelings. Annie decides to tell Maja's husband about his wife's whereabouts and the two are reconciled.

A parable about the tragic innocence of evil in our world.

German horror television movie from 1980.

The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded by a civil guard, his mistress (La Morenita), his henchman (Don Ramón) and the fortress governor (the venal Don Gaspar). One morning, the city's French jeweler Michel Dumartin receives a visit from a client named José Llanos, one of the regime's fiercest opponents. Llanos is soon denounced and shot dead by Salvador's men. At the same time, Dumartin was accused of complicity with the rebels. Arrested and imprisoned in the fortress, he is ripe for the death penalty.

Victor goes on a cruise. By chance, in the company of two charming companions, the hero gets to the island, meets an eccentric hippie who has been living there in seclusion since the late 60s, and decides to stay here forever. Time goes by, the family grows. and suddenly it turns out that the island is not an island at all, but a continent, beyond the mountains of which normal life flows.

A Hetman sent his treasures to a UK bank, hoping that eventually Ukraine would get rid of the yoke and then the gold would help the people. KGB agents and foreign spies hunt for the descendant of the Hetman in order to obtain the treasure.

Ivan, a simple, good-natured man, wakes up in his flat and notices Kasya the mare outside his window. With a compassionate heart and a kind soul, he takes her in and walks her around the city. What is this mare capable of, and where can she be sheltered? Kasya becomes a problem for Ivan and the subject of all kinds of speculation. Because of the mare, Ivan gets into various troubles with his beloved woman, a newly minted businessman, and kidnappers who want to steal the animal for meat. But unlike everyday problems, she can be easily gotten rid of by letting go of the reins.

1950's, France, by the serene banks of the Marne River. François, a daydreaming child of boundless imagination, has his life changed when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden. Thus begins the family's grand odyssey, a collective venture to construct a boat that would carry them away - somewhere between reality and reverie

Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year after the start of the war in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go to Kyiv, for the first time during the war. On the way to Kyiv, she learns that her family is not in Kyiv, and will come only the next day. Therefore, she meets her friend Kyryl, with whom she spends the day, as she used to before the war. In the morning, Lera meets her mother and sister, and finally feels at home. But she still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.

The plot centres on the fates of two lonely teenagers. Finding themselves on the streets, the children begin to care for each other like brother and sister in a real family. Denis tells Rosa about his most cherished dream — to visit the beautiful White Lake again, near which he once lived with his grandfather.

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life.

A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

A man takes his daughter on the Camino de Santiago to honor his late wife's last wish.

A content moderator is tasked with purging offensive media from the internet. When she witnesses a crime in a video, she is lured away from the safety of her keyboard as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

Nicole and her son Serge live in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, where their love for each other thrives against all odds. But as Christmas approaches, Nicole has her checkbook and credit card confiscated, turning their relationship and their lives upside down.

The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man.

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.

In post–World War I Europe, drifter Jim Jeffries, son of a disgraced stock speculator, stumbles into high society at a London palace card party and parlayed his luck into wealth, only to lose it all in a cutthroat Chinese port and end up in prison. Upon release, he secretly marries the resourceful Jane, reinvents himself in America as Riche Richson, and, newly prosperous, reunites with Jane, now companion to a millionaire’s daughter, on a whirlwind transatlantic adventure that proves fortune can favor the bold.

Jonathan Meades dives deep into the motives behind Brutalist architecture, the story of its fall from grace, and its unapologetic continued relevance.

Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia, and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. The result was a variety of styles that still influence architecture today. Along the way, Meades ponders on the nature of fascism, the influence of the Futurists, and Mussolini's love of a fancy uniform.

Documentary short film about Ella Bergmann-Michel.

A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.

Ella Bergmann-Michel aborted her last film "Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl)" about the election campaign in Frankfurt because of political reasons. During the shooting of the film Bergmann-Michel was arrested und parts of the films were destroyed. The film only exists as a fragment.

Ella Bergmann-Michel′s second movie "Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose" was a assignment of the association of Frankfurt’s "Erwerblosenküchen" that during the world economy crisis could no longer serve meals for thousands of unemployed persons. The film was shown as a supporting film in many Frankfurt cinemas as well as in outdoor screenings at Frankfurt′s Hauptwache.

The 1931 documentary "Wo wohnen alte Leute" for the Dutch architect Mart Stam exhibits the modern and forward-looking architecture of the Budge home in Frankfurt. Its residents live in a comfortable in light-flooded environment with state-of-the-art single rooms. The film focuses on the presentation of an architecture that with its spatial structure supports the sociability of its residents.

The documentary shows water landscapes as transparent surfaces, transfigured views of nature without technical effects. Close-ups, fragments, and views without a horizon create the impression of flatness. Plants with their symmetrical mirror images on the water turn into graphic elements. Similarly the sharp reflexes of light on the waves, the shadows of the fish, like echo sounders, make visible the uneven ground of the riverbed.

1538. In the Inca empire a strange visitor has arrived. The messenger Sisco will give the news.

Renowned market leader Pathé Frères was specialized in filming elaborate Biblical stories. Here the life of Moses is told in six scenes.

Reveals various aspects of the construction of the dam network in that river basin

Made by commission of the Porto City Council, Panels of the Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between the river and downtown, commented with the reading of poems by authors like Vasco de Lima Couto, Egito Gonçalves, Rosália de Castro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Fernando Pessoa, and António Reis himself, with music by Francisco Rebelo.

Grandma Cricket is an animated short film based on an ancient legend of the Ayoreo people, about an old lady cricket who has the power to make water spring up with her singing. Here, the story is updated as a parable of the Water War in Bolivia that took place in 2000, where the Bolivian people rose up against the privatization of water.

Juliana is a thirteen-year-old girl who runs away from home to get away from her stepfather's abuse. On the streets, she must face the struggle to survive. She soon discovers the marginalization girls face when trying to get street work and decides to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy. She joins a group of boys who sing in Lima's microbuses, protected and exploited at the same time by a crook. Juliana's rebellious nature and her feminine strength lead her to head a child revolution.

Depicts a strike in a factory violently repressed by the Gendarmerie.

Widow of a communist resistant fighter struggles with his death.

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

A tale of a father and his children, whom relentlessly ask him about the meaning of "Potets".

Even though the Gommesens have been married for 25 years, they are still in love. They wake up happy on their silver wedding anniversary, but the peaceful atmosphere does not last. The couple ends up in a huge fight, causing Mrs. Gommesen to leave the house in fury. Her husband’s anger quickly fades when Lawyer Vinkel makes a surprise visit, delivering a present from Gommesen’s rich uncle in Chicago: A check of 25.000 DKK. Learning that it can only be cashed on the condition that the Gommesens lead a happy, peaceful life together, Mr. Gommesen rushes out to find his precious wife. Will he make it in time or is he forced to give up the fortune?

Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, an indigenous woman who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.

The installation THE SILVER AND THE CROSS by media artist Harun Farocki examines the 1758 painting "Depiction of the Cerro Rico and the Imperial City of Potosí" by Gaspar Miguel des Berrío (in the Museo Colonial Charcas de la Universidad San Francisco Xavier, Sucre, Bolivia). Farocki uses the medium of video to dissect the painting and its historical layers. In addition to artistic aspects, Farocki also looks at historical context and colonialism.

A 45 episode series that focused on the psyche of children.

Shot in Paris in December 1958, La Sorcière (The Witch) is Żuławski’s student film and directorial debut. The story is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Hoffman's classic story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouseking" is the tale of a spoiled prince who lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle, Drosselmeier.

Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.

Miss Vibeke takes no pleasure in hearing of her fiancé’s imminent arrival. For she is in fact in love with a handsome forester, Poul, and now the two lovers will only be able to meet in secret. But one night when Poul visits Vibeke in her room, things do not go as planned.

Strangers meet at night near cliffs before his impending marriage. Despite her disbelief in pleasure, they connect intimately and unconditionally for one night, exploring desire and vulnerability on the edge before parting ways.

A young journalist Sofia, who survived the betrayal and death of her husband, has to write an article about a detective. For all his activities, only two of the cases assigned to him remain unsolved. Sofia understands the reason for these failed cases.

Petr Polyakov, director of a large factory, meets a girl named Varya in a very unusual way. She gets into his car and, introducing herself as his daughter, shows Polyakov a photograph of her mother. Polyakov recognises the face in the photograph—it is his former lover, Zinaida.

Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters are under surveillance around the clock. They have no interest in learning to box. So why has Sarah been brought here?

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.

Aging Bosnian rocker Toni Riff hasn’t written a single song in twenty years; suffering from depression, he relies on financial support from his wife Sonia. The latter decides to make a last-ditch attempt to salvage Toni’s talent – and their marriage.

An abbé claiming to be the late nobleman’s brother disrupts the Rigatti family with secrets, suspicion, and inheritance intrigue.

Private detective Tom Machata, lost in the dramatic fantasies of crime novels, is pulled into a real-life mystery when his assistant Archibald is robbed of a bag full of money. Clues lead them to investigate women with tiny feet, prompting Tom to pose as a skate helper and Archibald as a shoeshine boy. Tom falls for one of the women and gets hired by her to spy on her boyfriend, who then hires Tom to spy on her.

The second in a two-part series that explores the fine line between madness and sanity. A group of 10 volunteers undergo a series of tests set by a group of psychiatrists (from the Royal College of Psychiatrists) over the course of a week at Heber Castle. Out of the volunteers, five have mental health issues, and it is up to the psychiatrists to work out which ones these are. The conditions include depression, social behaviour disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anorexia nervosa. The participants are given various tasks to perform, which will hopefully bring their mental health issues to light. The programme intends to show how close apparently 'sane' people are to 'madness' and how difficult it is to differentiate between what are symptoms of mental illness and what are mere character traits. In this part, they have to make their final diagnoses and only manage to get two correct out of five disorders.

The first in a two-part series that explores the fine line between madness and sanity. A group of 10 volunteers undergo a series of tests set by a group of psychiatrists over the course of a week at Heber Castle. Out of the volunteers, five have mental health issues, and it is up to the psychiatrists to work out which ones these are. The participants are given various tasks to perform, which will hopefully bring their mental health issues to light. The programme intends to show how close apparently 'sane' people are to 'madness' and how difficult it is to differentiate between what are symptoms of mental illness and what are mere character traits.