1. Cela s'appelle l'amour (Cela s'appelle l'amour)
The theme of Romeo and Juliet is the starting point from which the film spins a web of several stories. A love story between a boy and a girl whose families are Algerian: they are young, beautiful and they are trying to build a family and a social life in France. They love each other, and yet conflicts, family pressure and contradicting desires alternately tear them apart and unite them. The story of Romeo and Juliet, minus death.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
2. Malditos (Malditos)
A group of actors in Madrid are cast in a theatre show conceived as a dance marathon and as an unscripted competition. ‘Malditos’ follows their drifting between success, failure, fame and self-realization, interweaving non-fiction interventions and staged representations, constantly blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.
3. Je me soulève (Je me soulève)
(Je me soulève)
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
4. Cloud Making Machine
Firas, Jallow and Batoul just arrived in Berlin. They meet one another in a theatre group. They are searching for the good life in Germany - yet things don’t turn out the way they hoped. Through video letters, they reveal their deepest emotions to their families and friends back in their war-torn or poverty-stricken home countries.
5. Ryhmäteatteri (Ryhmäteatteri)
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
6. Der gordische Knoten (Der gordische Knoten)
(Der gordische Knoten)
7. The Hamlet Syndrome (Das Hamlet-Syndrom)
Five young Ukrainians discuss life following the Maidan Revolution of 2014. Not all fought in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but it, regardless, shattered their life plans. Representing 'Generation Maidan', they face the question of how to cope with experiences of violence, how to go on. A local theatre director produces Hamlet, wherein they can use Shakespeare’s tragic character as a mirror and face their traumas onstage. For them, 'to be or not to be' is not simply text but an existential dilemma with no clear answer.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Theatre 1 (演劇1)
Theatre 1 is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
9. Theatre 2 (演劇２)
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 examines the dynamic relationship between theatre and the society through depicting Hirata's activities. In order for his art and his not-so-commercial company to survive this highly capitalistic modern society, what kind of strategy does Hirata have and practice?
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Terwijl het liefde was (Terwijl het liefde was)
Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This piece, titled The Century of My Mother, is a family story about the migration from the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands. It is De Vroedt's way of examining the relationship with his mother and not having to say goodbye to her yet: 'I can let her live on stage, but when the curtain falls, when the play is completely finished, then she is really dead'.
11. Martin Army Theater (Armádne divadlo Martin)
(Armádne divadlo Martin)
12. Hysteria (Hysteria)
A documentary following five actresses through Santa Catarina roads as they perform the play of the title.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
13. Idoler mot alla odds (Idoler mot alla odds)
Documentary about the theatre group Glada Hudik as they bring their musical about Elvis Presley to Stockholm for the first time.
14. Game Over?
This documentary shows how one of the biggest youth theatres in Europe dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.
15. Shakespeare: Found in Translation
Documentary following Deafinitely Theatre as they translate a classic Shakespeare play for a Deaf audience.
16. Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser (Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser)
(Amédée ou comment s'en débarrasser)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
17. La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (La Tragédie du Roi Christophe)
(La Tragédie du Roi Christophe)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
18. We, the Children of Caterpillars
The theatre company of a forgotten town puts on one last performance to escape the reality of their home fading away into nothingness.
19. Our Spring (Notre Printemps)
A woman recalls a happy and tragic period in her life in the late 1970s. From the birth of their child to the husband's disappearance in the Loire River where he was having a sunrise swim after an all-night nudist party.
20. Por Trás do Pano (Por Trás do Pano)
A famous actor believes he has totally mastered his craft. A young and talented actress is open to new challenges. They meet, and confront each other; on, and off the stage. From his personal and artistic lethargy, he sees the possibilities of a new beginning, new opportunities, after starting to see her. The story unravels, as the title states, "behind the curtain."
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
