1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Obit
How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
It has an average vote of 6.4 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. 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.
7. 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.
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 Unpublished Visions (Visións Inéditas)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. 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.
10. Karl's Perfect Day
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. 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.
12. (There Is No) Cure
In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror classic Cure, deploying a dizzying range of cinematic references to unravel the film’s eerie magic.
13. Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (Bohemia docta aneb Labyrint světa a lusthauz srdce (Božská komedie))
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
14. RES CREATA - Humans and other animals (RES CREATA)
(RES CREATA)
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
15. Lejano Interior (Lejano Interior)
A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
16. Oachkatzlschwoaf
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less happy times. For Nenda Neururer, the word 'oachkatzlschwoaf' invokes a range of emotions. The German word is very hard to pronounce and is synonymous with the Austrian state of Tyrol where locals tease outsiders by asking them to pronounce it. Despite growing up in Tyrol, Nenda Neururer often felt like an outsider when confronted with this word. But when she moved to London she grew nostalgic for it and it became her little secret. Found in Translation is a series made as part of the In The Mix project, in partnership with BBC Studios TalentWorks, Black Creators Matter and the Barbican.
17. Ozu: Passageways
People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu . His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is born, but simple places of passage.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
18. The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness (O Indispensável Treino da Vagueza)
By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro Caldas and from conversations at home."
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
19. Death of Narcissus (나르시스의 죽음)
(나르시스의 죽음)
20. My Friend Haden
Documentary filmmaker Renton Hinderer takes a look back at his long relationship with one of his closest friends to understand the paths we choose in life, and how friendship is eternal through it all.