1. Äskhult - The Eternal Place (Äskhult - den eviga platsen)
In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past is kept alive while creating opportunities for a more sustainable future.
2. Swimming, Dancing
Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze , from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920s, Swimming, Dancing pieces together a “river symphony”, evoking the images, sounds and contradictions that make up the river’s turbulent history.
3. FFG: un retrato (FFG: un retrato)
An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all time.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Sandes (Sandes)
Berkay Özdinç turns the ghost hotel into a protagonist, which conduces to the meeting of his parents and is thus associated with his existence. In the film which goes over the places, while wandering in the current state of the hotel, he reawakens the memory of the place with his parents’ narration.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Celestial Night: a film on visibility
Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination: Celestial Night is a film dealing with this vital power, the ability to envision. It is a search in present day Japan for the mythical Japanese Emperor Amayonomikoto who was blind, and the story of a time when seeing was not believing.
6. Paris '50 - Existence imagined (Parigi '50 - L'esistenza immaginata)
An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. Tonto-tour (Tonto-tour)
A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.
8. Unpublished Visions (Visións Inéditas)
Four filmmakers working in the region of Galicia follow and portray on the screen Galician artists working in disciplines of different nature. The result is four pieces around the creative process of these artists. Lois Patiño film their parents working on their paintings in their studio in Vigo, Jaione Camborda films dancer Janet Novás rehearsing for one of her pieces, Xisela Franco follows film director Margarita Ledo revisiting the location of her latest film Nation and Alfonso Zarauza reflects on the relationship between actress-director by putting together the work of Melania Cruz in two of their collaborations.
9. Karl's Perfect Day
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. gap (Hiato)
Stream of consciousness awakened by the shots of an inauspicious summer.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Roundhay Garden Scene
The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire , possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince , Mrs. Sarah Whitley , Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
12. Michael Berger: A Hysteria (Michael Berger – Eine Hysterie)
Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual systematic contexts and historical eventualities be brought into harmony? Thomas Furhapters nearly one hour film Michael Berger Eine Hysterie turns this problem outward by not covering up the moment of speculation. The subject of the film, Austrian investment banker Michael Berger, who became a dollar millionaire through a risky hedge fund, remains a chimera an absent individual who also cannot be captured through his crime.
13. The Water Map (El Mapa del Agua)
The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and the culture of the area, and with its disappearance, the memories of four characters fade away.
14. Essay on color and its absence (Ensaio sobre a cor e sua ausência)
An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.
15. Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
It has an average vote of 4.882 on TMDB.
16. The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology (The Philosophy of Horror (Part I): Etymology)
The Philosophy of Horror is a seven-part abstract adaptation of Noël Carroll’s influential film theoretical book of the same title , which is a close examination of the horror genre. The film uses hand painted and decayed 35mm film strips of the classic slasher movie A Nightmare on Elm Street and its sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge .
17. Debra Paget, For Example
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for 20th-Century Fox whom they groomed and coached for stardom.
It has an average vote of 3.2 on TMDB.
18. City of Signs (La ciudad de los signos)
Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city in the 1st century, but he does not succeed. However, on one of the tapes a strange phrase, much more recent, is recorded, words that César has already heard somewhere…
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Didactica Magna: Against the Grain (Ponorná řeka didaktiky)
The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and teacher Martin Čihák takes a look at his teaching methods, his meetings with his students at FAMU and at a park where they work with film, or in his studio.
20. Fungus (Houba)
This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and civilization, all the while searching for various analogies, such as the similarities between mycorrhiza and other structures.
