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The Beaches of Agnès

By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...

Life of Ivanna

Ivanna, a young Nenets woman and mother of five children living in North Siberia, decides to take her life into her own hands, emancipating from an abusive relationship and abandoning the traditional nomadic way of life in the tundra to emigrate to the city. 

Aurora's Sunrise

At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in _Auction of Souls_, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid ani...

Human, Not Human

Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity. 

Animal Macula

_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...

State Funeral

Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...

Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival materials, including sound recordings, film outtakes, and unpublished notebooks, this film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's most enigmatic filmmakers. Using one of Tait's unrealized scripts as a starting point, _Being in a Place_ pays tribute to the strengths of Tait's methods, the significance of fragmented bodies of works, and the intrinsic va...

The Beaches of Agnès

By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...

I Wish I Knew

Shanghai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go. Eighteen people recall their lives in Shanghai. Their personal experiences, like eighteen chapters of a novel, tell stories of Shanghai lives from the 1930s to 2010.

Life of Ivanna

Ivanna, a young Nenets woman and mother of five children living in North Siberia, decides to take her life into her own hands, emancipating from an abusive relationship and abandoning the traditional nomadic way of life in the tundra to emigrate to the city. 

Erpe-Mere

Surrounded by the sound of nocturnal animals, a girl falls into a deep sleep. Gradually we are drawn into her dream, which unfolds into a cosmic journey through the meadows of Erpe-Mere, a rural village in Belgium. 

Mémoire battante

Three memories – that of the Innu, the Jesuit, and Lamothe – juxtapose without contradicting each other, define without harming each other, evaluate without diminishing each other. In this feature-length film, Arthur Lamothe captures the daily life of the Innu and the culture of an indigenous people gradually being decimated.