The Making Of... is a unique reflection of the transformation of the time spirit from November 17, 1989, to November 17, 2009. The film reconstruction of the revolutionary moments culminates in a clash between demonstrators and public security on the day of the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The commented home video transforms over the course of 20 years from a euphoric trip into a picture of social emptiness.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

About the granddaughter's return from the city to her grandmother in the village.

“Metamorphism” is a creative reflection on resource extraction and its effects on the environment. It focuses on mining slag waste from the Blinman Copper Mine in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, as a way of imaging the incredible forces human society and technology exert upon the earth. This project continues a long-standing collaboration between media artist Grayson Cooke and sound artist Dugal McKinnon, investigating the relationship between geological “deep time” and the technologically amplified time of the human.

“Deforest” is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old-growth forest from subtropical Queensland.

The “after | image” project is about personal and material memory, and about archival preservation and dissolution; it features time-lapse macro-photography of photographic negatives being chemically and physically destroyed.

'Frack' explores "virtual fracking" - it uses chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing to dissolve photographs of sedimentary rock.

A young woman is walking through the city. She meets a friend at a coffee shop. This friend tells her every detail about how she bought a bike the day before. The young woman listens.

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want to leave her alone. Between external stimuli and internal conditions an idiosyncratic and seemingly inescapable space of repressed aggression and confrontation emerges.

When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.

Dorian Supin’s third documentary film of Arvo Pärt steps closer to the composer, showing him in a domestic setting as a composer, husband, father, and grandfather. The title “Even if I lose everything” refers to an entry in Arvo Pärt’s musical notebooks, which the composer browses in the film, together with Immo Mihkelson. The musings and recollections inspired by the notes in these journals, in parallel with domestic scenes, shed light on the composer’s life and creative philosophy, painting a personal, in-depth picture of Arvo Pärt. The film’s soundtrack includes excerpts from Pärt’s works.

This film is a journey inside the tradition of bespoke tailoring in the city of Naples. It's a story that wants to celebrates the people and their craft. There are some key words to this documentary: excellence, dignity, beauty, work, elegance, passion. Shots of Naples for connoisseurs.

A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.

The whole country - people of different ages, incomes and professions - watch television. All television programmes - news, talk shows, even soap operas - are devoted to the same thing: bathing in a winter ice-hole. The president catches a talking pike in the ice-hole, a fugitive oligarch hides his millions there, an aqualungist artist organises a performance, and a freelancer becomes Orpheus and Sadko at the same time.

In the Stone House records and recollects a period of life of four years in rural New Jersey. In the latter 1960s, two young guys with monastic leanings leave the clatter of Manhattan’s art and film scene to catch the wave of higher consciousness that was about to change the world forever to find themselves washed ashore in a place only slightly updated from Way Down East. The monastic retreat quickly turned into the weekend getaway for a host of extravagant Manhattanites seeking films and fun. We learned from hitch-hiking guests that the police referred to our haven as “the stone house.” —Jerome Hiler

A renowned painter and a free-thinker, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun is still considered ahead of her time. Follow the artist's adventures over the course of her nearly 90-year life in this captivating docudrama.

It was a picnic.

Ulaanbaatar was established as Urgoo in 1639. Founding father of the capital was Zanabazar, Buddhist Leader of Mongolia at the time. Until 1924, the Capital city had been home to the religious leaders of Mongolia. Under Soviet influence however, Ulaanbaatar underwent a dramatic change to become a modernized city.

A couple moves into a village, hoping to be together all the time, but not knowing they would discover hidden personalities and grow distant from each other and eventually, they will have to decide whether to stay together or get separated.

Tony and the team are in the village of Beadnell on the Northumbrian coast, to explore an unusual promontory, from which mysterious fragments of human bone have emerged over the last few years.

Nandor visits one of his living descendants; a lover from Nadja's past reemerges.

Tensions run high as the vampires prepare to host the Biannual Vampire Orgy.

Nadja trains Jenna on how to take her first victim, and Nandor applies for American citizenship.

The vampires must defend themselves as an international vampire tribunal gathers to judge them for their transgressions.

The Baron awakens from his slumber and demands to experience the wonders of the New World in a night out in the town.

Laszlo, in bat form, is captured by Staten Island Animal Control and must be rescued, while Nadja can no longer resist reconnecting with her reincarnated lover Gregor.

The vampires venture into Manhattan, to make an alliance with an old friend who is now the king of the Manhattan vampires.

The fragile truce between the vampires and Staten Island's werewolves is tested; Colin Robinson finds romance with a new coworker.

The vampires get embroiled in local Staten Island politics as their first step to world domination.

The vampires try to plan a lavish blood feast in honor of a visit by their ancient master from the Old Country.

A documentary comedy about a couple who figures out their summer plan: biking through France for three months, following the diary of Andrzej Bobkowski, a Polish writer, who did the exact same bike trip back in the 1940’s. They film their research first but end up questioning who they are for each other. Life could be so beautiful if there wouldn’t be fears, wrong expectations, and all kinds of frustrations. A road trip about a couple fighting for who they want to be told with a lot of humor.

It's Christmas Eve in a small mountain train station and no train is coming since all the tracks are blocked with snow. Four people are waiting for a train that doesn't show up. They don't know each other, how long it's going to take, or if they will ever reach their destinations. But as the hours pass, Madalina, Cristi, Ozana, Alex share the absurd, the despair, and the hope. Because they are accidentally stuck here. Because no one knows when it will end. And because it's Christmas.

This polyphonic film by the Belgian film artist about the history of Europe and art is an unforgettable, sensual journey between memory and nightmare. To a meditative, threatening soundtrack, we hear a series of monologues by poets and crazy people, mothers and children. Meanwhile, the image forces the eye to reflect on what and where.

Young and pretty Marie believes she's responsible for the death of her little daughter and became a self pleasure addict to keep her mind from reliving the terrible event. Her aloof husband - an unemployed trader - suggests using her addiction to become a money earning camgirl. At first horrified by what she considers prostitution, Mary soon accepts and confronts people who contribute to destroy her and others who help rebuilding herself.

Wang Bing is chinese and films terrible things such as poverty, injustice, the horror of Maoist repression and does it with empathy and respect . In this portait, facing us and the camera, Wang Bing speaks with us about China and his own cinema.

The Studio Diaries are a series of 100 short films created throughout 2018, each film taking the form of a diary entry shot, edited and released online in a single day. Over the course of seven months the films capture the workings of our daily creative practice, but more than simply documenting, the Studio Diary Series are creative thought in action. Each film is an investigation into the language of moving images, exploring how narrative and meaning are constructed through the relationship between sound and image.

A film of darkness interrupted by fleeting fragments of Super 8 film, evoking a series of mysterious landscapes and eerie encounters in the foggy countryside. Mist, sheep, blood rituals and a film crew dissolving into the scenery.

A confrontation between two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between two concepts of church and community: the Protestant Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen and the Catholic Cathedral in Orvieto.

Gagauzia is a region of the most unknown country in Europe, Moldova. A place, most people are eager to leave. Some stay though. Vasili was left behind. His wife went to work in Turkey 6 years ago. Their son Sergei hasn't heard from her ever since. Anna cannot leave behind her past, cannot leave behind her roots. And Manjul never wanted to leave in the first place. He finds freedom in this restricted place.

In the periods 1940-1941 and 1944-1991 Bessarabia was under Soviet occupation. This documentary details the atrocities committed by the communist authorities against the local population.

Detective Haffigan investigates the disappearance of a mysterious singing bone that has fallen into the hands of an attractive actor with a gorilla arm.

The documentary Moldova 89-91 presents the thread of events through which the neighboring state gained its independence with the collapse of the USSR. Thus, the film features politicians such as former presidents Mircea Snegur and Vladimir Voronin and former Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca, along with many other witnesses and participants in the events of the formation of the Republic of Moldova as an independent state. And, of course, each of them has its own version of history.

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.

In Gazing at the Catastrophe, Ali Cherri reflects on how suffering has become increasingly integrated into his daily life. Witnessing of atrocities, Cherri argues, seems to be an inevitable condition of modernity. The knowledge of war gained by those who have not experienced it firsthand is informed exclusively by mediated images found on the internet or in the media.

Stella unexpectedly inherits an old house in Berlin from her Jewish great uncle. Due to the dramatic history of this building, which has gone through various changes throughout the 20th century, she will have to fight for the right to claim ownership of her inheritance.

Water flows under two bridges, or so it may appear. Since the advent of the industrial age, there has been a heated dialogue regarding the relationship between earth's natural environment and manufactured human spaces. Watercolor (Fall Creek) exists between these necessary worlds, as time unfolds and remains difficult to comprehend.

In the Darhat valley of northern Mongolia, the horses of the nomadic tribes are disappearing. Bandits are stealing them to sell to Russian abattoirs for just a few rubles. But Shukhert, a crime-fighting Darhat horseman, is relentlessly pursuing them to the Taiga mountain range of Mongolia, on the border with Siberia.

Tony Robinson joins a team of archaeologists from the University of Nottingham, to investigate Venta Icenorum, at modern-day Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk. This Roman town was set-up in the heartland of the long-lost Iceni tribe, renowned for the warrior queen Boudica, who led a revolt against Roman rule, circa 61 AD.

Nobuyoshi Kikuchi has devoted his life to books. Over the course of his career, he has designed more than 15,000 book covers. Even in the digital age, he still works with a ruler, scissors, and pencils, creating unique fonts, and being meticulous about the properties of the chosen paper. He enjoys the personal exchange with authors, a good cup of coffee, and a stroll through the flea market. Nanako Hirose presents a fascinating portrait of a seemingly old-fashioned personality – but maybe it is exactly this kind of personality which can give an inspiration to reflect on the really valuable things in life?

Summer war games between the neighborhood kids turns deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix, in this alternately hilarious and horrifying black comedy that mixes equal parts Lord of the Flies and Roald Dahl.

While her father was in his deathbed, she and her nieces were playing in the rain.

A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.

“Call them spontaneous or occasional films. I did not know if I would show this publicly when I filmed. The gift was Luke Fowler suggesting that I film his and Corin’s first child, Liath, while I visited them in Glasgow. The images are left in the order of filming, and the editing is only a few excisions.” (RB)

Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench; the old factories and machinery, warehouses and train lines are part of a Greece, now disappearing.

An African boy receives a paper snowflake in a letter from a friend. He puts it under his pillow and falls asleep, dreaming that one day he will see many such snowflakes. The next morning a real miracle happens: his wish comes true and it starts snowing in Africa.

Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.

A few miles from Els Gorgs lies the village of Argelaguer, where Josep Pujiula by himself is building (and re-building) his dream.

"L'Architecte de Saint-Gaudens" is a musical and choreographic film. An architect sings, while he strolls about, about the buildings he constructed in a small village in the Pyrénées. He is accompanied by the inhabitants, who sing and dance in their homes, workplaces, and places of study. A dialog takes shape between the architect and the population about his work, its paradoxes and its rules.

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

Møn Island, Denmark. Sonja asks Anna, an aspiring singer, to visit her childhood friend Julie, Sonja's daughter, who is obsessed with an ancient myth. Anna tries to cheer Julie up and convince her to give up her fantasies. (Remake of the short film “Sombra,” 2017.)

A young man takes his love for lizards to the extreme.

Shot entirely from a boat on a lake, this evocative film confronts the viewer resolutely with his or her sensitivity for the moment. Surrounded by sounds of animal life, both from the lake and the neighbouring forests, this film takes us through the seasons. Sounds of water, the wind and a human presence.

One winter day, nobody comes to see a play. One of the drama’s actresses becomes angry and leaves the theater. She goes to a park, drinks and meets people.

A short film that explores gay male psychical intimacy, with some explicit nudity scenes. Matt, a gay man in his late twenties, navigates the lonely intersection of carnal sex and human closeness. With the arrival of Luke, a new man in his life, he finds a way to reconcile pleasures of the flesh with the new aroused imperatives of the heart.

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.

Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at neglected, but rich German art from the time of the Middle Ages.

In 1979, two decades before the Columbine High School Massacre, the idea of children being targeted for mass slaughter in the sanctity of their school was inconceivable.

Donkeys follows two down-on-their-luck best friends as they try to enter the crime world, only to quickly realise they are way out of their depth.

Art experts track down the work of of some of the biggest names in art that are lying hidden away in museums, art galleries and country houses around the UK.

It's little Edo's birthday, and the whole extended family is gathered around the table. Only Uncle Roman is missing... Soon the man appears, but instead of a gift, he brings a live grenade in his hands.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.