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Jobless and with no prospects, "Niñato" (Kid) lives with his parents and does hip-hop music. He lives the life of the outskirts, it's the Madrid of the chronic crisis. But he is 34 years old and has 3 children to bring up. Time goes by, the kids are growing up and "Niñato" carries on, making music and looking after the children, without worrying too much about his future. Oro, the smallest one, not too motivated at school, will demand more attention and drive "Niñato" to face his own conflicts.

For 20 years, Oliver, a Frenchman, has lived alone and on his own on a small island that belongs to First Nations people. One day, three visitors land on the island and disrupt his peace.

Niscemi, Sicily. A landscape shaped by intensive farming, wildfires, and MUOS: imposing military antennae that disfigure the territory. At almost 30 years old, Valentina still lives with her parents. When her father's health deteriorates, she is forced to take her fate into her own hands. A delicate tale of emancipation rooted in a ravaged yet beloved land.

Two twin sisters, a master and his dog, lovers who look like each other...all doubles are possible in the simultaneously poetic and hyper-realistic universe of Claudia Varejão. Here, love comes in all shapes and sizes, building a choreography of visual resemblances, while also questioning what makes a couple in the contemporary world.

A conversation between two friends about the effectiveness and implications of publicly supporting the cultural boycott of Israel. One friend is wracked with worry having signed a petition asking Radiohead not to play Tel Aviv, the other is more sanguine. Their conversation offers a glimpse of what it is to be a Palestinian in today's world.

Against the backdrop of the Women, Life, Freedom protest movement in Iran, filmmaker Elahe Esmaili is helping her parents to pack up the family home. As the boxes stack up, discussions flare between the generations: Elahe does not wear the hijab, embodying the courage of her generation's struggles. But can changing a society be as simple as moving house?

At Wisconsin Dells, the world capital of water parks, foreign students are employed on summer work visas. This programme, presented as an immersion into American culture, is also a way of profiting from cheap labour. An inspired portrait of contemporary America through the eyes of this young generation.

Time is measured by kilometer, distance by border.

In 1982, Patrice Berthelot reports on the conditions of his detention in Sion prison through a correspondence with the director Anne Theurillat, who now transforms his words-by turns cheerful or imbued with mellow bitterness-into images, through an inspired cinematic construction. A question remains: is it possible for humanity to exist between four walls?

The film documents 12 years in the life of Mehrez, a gifted dancer and actor from Mohamedia, Tunisia, who struggles with his addiction to gambling and betting on horse races.

In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.

Brescia, March 2020. The town's public hospital finds itself overwhelmed with ill people. The director succeeds in filming the unprecedented relationships that unite the patients and healthcare staff in the face of the unknown.

Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction of a new airport. L'Étincelle paints an empathetic portrait of the environmentalists who raise questions about the future of the "Zone à défendre", when their struggle leads to a first victory: the cancellation of the airport project.

'Start From Zero' is a commemorative journey through Hong Kong's modern history - or in fact through several different versions of it. Flora Wan Man Lau's film, which was developed in collaboration with the Finnish Elina Talvensaari, is seen and told through a (possibly semi-fictionalized) prism of different voices and viewpoints, which gather in a single story about growing up under colonial rule, where the English Queen's face adorns stamps and coins, and the TV programme 'English One Minute' educates viewers in useful concepts such as 'propaganda' and 'mild swearing'. The relationship between sound and image suggests connections which are never definitely established. People and places pass by the camera's calm gaze in bright, clear images, while dramatic first-hand accounts of the cultural revolution and bittersweet childhood memories mix with the sound of Chinese fireworks on the soundtrack. The uncertainty of growing up under colonial rule is established as an aesthetic principle throughout 'Start From Zero', which subtly casts doubt on the relationship between image and language in the creation of personal and national narratives about who you are and where you come from.

A portrait of four young people from a small village in southern Spain, where modernity coexists with traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time. A research on the relationship between the animal and the human.

The filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep living where his parents are buried.

A conqueror, from time to time, indomitable, desolates a corner of the world and disappears. Is it the Devil? Inspired by the texts, drawings and music made by Erik Satie (France, 1866-1926).

In this modern-day fairy tale, Susanna Hübscher reverses the traditional roles: instead of waiting for her Prince Charming to find her, she goes looking for him. As part of her quest for the perfect man she appears on a date show on Swiss TV, consults a voodoo wizard in Paris, and interviews various women, including her own mother, about the real or imagined princes in their lives. Inspired by a 1970s Czech film adaption of the Cinderella story, she auditions men for the role of the prince in a remake she plans to shoot, and travels to Prague to interview the original film's star, in front of that city's famous castle. Hübscher's playful approach to the subject of searching for true love finds its aesthetic equivalent in the film's visual style, which includes a lot of "magical" appearances via jump cuts and abrupt transitions between times and places. She freely helps herself to scenes from the Czech movie, whose campy, nostalgic look is well matched by the picture-book compositions shot by her own crew. Hübscher's admitted seriousness about her quest is tempered by the ironic distance she achieves by adding a layer of self-reflection, as the film is not only about the search for the dream prince but is also the story of its own making.

"The Daily Death" is a study of the region from where I was born. Whenever I go back there I notice the changes of the city. It's transforming into something I don't recognize anymore. This is why I decided to make a film about a region in extinction. It's an "Apocalyptic Encyclopedia" of the landscape and the humans that dwell there, becoming forgotten as time goes by. Despite being a film about a specific area, it still communicates to any given city when it shows the "little deaths" we all confront on a daily basis: the memories that will soon be lost, ideals that become impossible to achieve, animals that die or become mutilated, landscapes and homes that transform by that ever attacking thing called progress. The film is subdivided in days and through each story or situation it moves geographically untill it arrives in the city. Once there, it becomes clear that the idea of progress didn't work: we find ourselves on the edge of the end of that land.

In Japan, the term "hikikomori" designates people who isolate themselves from society. Nanako, aged 24, joins in the activities of an organisation that helps withdrawn young people to reintegrate. With modesty, Valerie Bäuerlein follows the path of the young woman as she regains confidence in herself. The portrait of an increasingly competitive and oppressive society is implicitly sketched.

Starting with the memory of a song hummed in a rainy night, 'Chronicles of That Time' investigates the shifting identity of the Mediterranean; from "the shared sea", unifying the cultural diversity of Africa and Europe, to closed borders. Moving from the Tunisian shores to those of Italy, the film asks a simple yet harrowing question about the place of humanity in contemporary politics.

Maria faces a dilemma: become an ascetic, or reconnect with her two sons. Ana Vijdea paints a sensitive portrait of a woman in the midst of existential doubt, in a film where images are mightier than words.

The Zimmerwald Conference - Shrouded in legend in the Soviet Union and erased from history in the Swiss village where it took place. A labyrinth of forgetting and remembering from which history is made.

On the days before a departure, the mysterious characters of Rubicón take us around the streets of a town, any old town, in an unknown country. The burning light of the afternoon, a suitcase that is packed, whispering - A film suspended in time, like the feeling of uprooting.

In Geneva's neighbourhood of Les Vernets, surrounding the military barracks, À l'intérieur tells the story of the place and its individual destinies. Wishing to question the nature of the day-to-day, Sabine Bally invites her protagonists to focus on their interiors. Collecting a series of domestic chronicles, the film depicts the household as a matrix of all life stories.