2020s

The life of Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo, who created shoes for Hollywood stars during the silent film era and for iconic films of the period.Read More »

A stasis work invoking the memory of the lynching of Mary Turner, a young, pregnant African American woman in South Georgia in 1918.

Publicly demanding justice following the murder of her husband, Turner was kidnapped by a mob, hung up in a tree, set on fire, her child cut out and killed, and shot hundreds of times before being buried on site in South Georgia.Read More »

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Four depressive teenagers withdraw from patriarchal society to start a new life in a mountain hideout. They transform their misery and melancholia into pornography for their website “Sad Girls” – and use the money they earn to fund their survival. For them, sadness is an act of counter-cultural resistance. Just when everything seems to be going fine, the arrival of two gonzo reporters threatens to upset the fragile balance of this feminist micro-utopia. A mockumentary about about sad porn stars, feminism and fragile masculinities.Read More »

Synopsis:
Housewife Pansy is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his life. Her sister Chantelle runs a thriving hair salon. A single mum, she enjoys life, and lives harmoniously with her daughters Kayla, who works in cosmetics, and Aleisha, a trainee lawyer.Read More »

Two teenage sisters are about to leave their country forever when they unexpectedly reconnect with an absent father. This relationship will both amplify and ease their pain of change.Read More »

A young, gifted Vincent and his father Tomas run the finest glass workshop in the country. They find their lives upended by an approaching war in which they want no part. The arrival of an army colonel and his young, aspiring violinist daughter Alliz, puts the father-son relationship to the test. As Vincent and Alliz fall in love, they must find courage to confront their fathers.Read More »

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“An autobiographical reflection on his unassuming name leads the filmmaker down a wayward path through family photographs, personal archives, and internet searches. Alternately wry and wistful, peppered with Smith’s characteristically droll commentary, Being John Smith flits between self-deprecation and cris de coeur, offering quietly hilarious observations on Smith’s lower middle class origins and career as an avant-garde cinema luminary, as well as unexpectedly melancholic impressions on age and extinction.” New York Film FestivalRead More »

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.Read More »

In a French building, the inhabitants seem to be dealing with the hazards of life: an ogre breaks his teeth on the very same day of the annual Ogre Feast, while being asked to watch over his neighbor’s kids; a magician cuts his assistant in half and her legs run off; a hiker and his dog spend several days stuck in the elevator; an old man falls in love with a pair of legs…

A truly imaginative animation film about the intertwined destinies of these unusual neighbors and their neighbors’ neighbors.Read More »