A Day With Zaha Hadid

Stanley Kwan casts an impassive eye on a film crew in a recording studio in "One Day in Our Lives of…" with a diva, a young director, his lovelorn assistant.

A monkey is kept in a cage by her master. She can’t speak, but we can understand her wailing. She won’t resist. She just swings her body in the cage so that she seems to have something to do. And almost like for us, every day and night for her becomes one long day from birth to death.

The privileged mind and skillful hand of graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist Alberto Corazón are behind the creation of a multitude of logos, brands, signs and emblematic images that accompany the restless consumers on their tempestuous journeys through the stormy ocean of contemporary Spanish advertising.

A New Year’s Eve party. Among those present are three friends, whom we follow as they leave the party to roam through Amsterdam. Although the atmosphere is calm and at times relaxed, it slowly emerges that they share a great sorrow. In the meantime, a whole year passes by, almost nonchalantly, in the course of one day.

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his current production and the nearness to death that has been brought by his illness.

Three people from a small Norwegian town are content with their lives, but inevitably they reveal the truth of a disappointing past, a lack of future and a stagnant life.

Vitor and Gustavo decided, in January 2020, to start a long-distance relationship, and were planning to meet again in a few months. Until COVID stopped them. This is the story of how they overcame the difficulties of time and distance through a lot of love and through Whatsapp audio messages.

A documentary on the history of film studios in Taiwan.

Erich Langeder's film project came about when, in autumn 2017, numerous members of the pre-monastery expressed their desire for a film about their pre-monastery during a district meeting for this year's 100th anniversary celebration. The aim of the film is to show the urban and social development of the district over the past 100 years, as well as visions for the future. A wide variety of people had their say, telling their very personal memories, stories and anecdotes about the pre-monastery.

Apartment on a snowy boulevard. Relatives embrace each other barely holding back tears; children try on New Year's dresses and dance around the Christmas tree; an experienced shy woman covers her face hiding from a sticky camera. And the tall – up to the ceiling – elegant spruce is spinning and spinning, hypnotizing a person with a camera.

The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.

In the final phase of the Vietnam War, in the summer of 1973, former ZDF correspondent Peter Scholl-Latour and his team were temporarily arrested in an area of South Vietnam controlled by the National Liberation Front. After checking their identities, they were allowed to film for a few days in Vietcong territory to document the harsh daily life of the jungle fighters.

On the day before Easter 2012, the bodies of four teenagers were found by the edge of a lake just outside Skopje. The bodies had been lined up, each with a bullet hole in their head. The boys had been on a fishing trip. The nation was shocked. Rumours run wild. It is a film about a country where life can come to a sudden end without cause or explanation.

A Italian documentary short from 1915.

A close-up of a baby girl.

The year is 1862, the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate.