Current Films

A young Muslim couple sits in a café, talk­ing about the future of their rela­tion­ship for the first time and how pre­mar­i­tal sex could change it. The young woman wants to know how her boyfriend’s opin­ion of her would change if she agreed to lose her vir­gin­i­ty to him.

“The film address­es a hot polit­i­cal topic: the free­dom to decide one’s own life. It is the por­trait of a woman deter­mined to take con­trol over her pri­vate life,” said the jury after award­ing the film the FIPRESCI prize in the Ober­hausen Short Film Festival.

There’s no way around it: modern man reacts to stress much like his stone-age fore­fa­thers, his phys­i­cal chem­istry decid­ing within sec­onds on fight or flight. Aside from the morn­ing hang­over, … read more

On a farm in the Pyre­nees, a few plain, func­tion­al build­ings, some pieces of equip­ment lying in the mud. In the cow barn, Sebastien Itard is hard at work. When … read more

Namir’s mother is a Coptic Chris­t­ian. She is con­vinced that she can see an appari­tion of the Virgin Mary on a video tape orig­i­nat­ing from her home in Egypt. Her … read more

Soanin Kilan­git is deter­mined to unite the people and attract inter­na­tion­al tourism through the revival of cul­ture on Baluan Island in the South Pacif­ic. He orga­nizes the largest cul­tur­al fes­ti­val … read more