2020s

Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art — but his full achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024, ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE provides intimate access to the man and mind who revolutionized the art form of comics. Spiegelman proves an eloquent guide through his provocative work, along with contemporaries and younger cartoonists inspired by Spiegelman’s unflinching confrontation of personally traumatic themes.Read More »

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.Read More »

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.Read More »

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Amálka is six years old. She loves her cat, her parents, and her grandparents. It’s summer and all the little girl wants is for the day to go as it should. But something is different today.Read More »

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A Tunisian woman is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth when her son returns home from war and unleashes a darkness throughout their village.Read More »

In a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again.

6 wins, 17 nominations.Read More »

Kerstin floats stoically across the Mecklenburg Lake District in her red GDR kayak. She glides aimlessly across the water for days on end, between tourism and dreariness, endeavouring to remain alone. The many rivers and lakes are familiar to her. But where does Kerstin come from? What is she fleeing from? Who is chasing her? The uniformity of this journey is broken when Alima appears, who finally asks the paddling loner the right questions.Read More »

“A musical with explicit sex that combines boleros, passion and nude performance…”

“It is common to paint nudes, or sculpture or dance, act naked in theatre and cinema, why not sing in the nude?
For the first time in history, Anikka does it.
I wanted to make this movie for more than ten years but didn’t find a great singer who also wanted it – until I met Anikka.” ~ Gonzalo García PelayoRead More »

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Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.Read More »