Elsewhere

Two women meet, wander and experience together a city that unveils different places and a connection beyond them.

Acting legend Ian McKellen discusses his impressive range of Shakespearean performances. Since playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night at 12 years old, Ian McKellen has acted in more than half of Shakespeare’s canon on stages worldwide and screens large and small. In a one-man performance filmed at BFI Southbank McKellen offers his unique insights into the problems and joys of interpreting Shakespeare for the theatre, television, radio and cinema.

Hunter from Elsewhere: A Journey with Helen Britton accompanies the artist on her search for valuable and everyday materials and her exploration of almost forgotten craft techniques and shows her encounters with the last remaining custodians of a fading knowledge.

In fictional sequences inserted into this documentary about economic, social and political perspectives on possible upcoming developments, the filmmakers portray a utopian future as a foreign territory. Six public figures from various cultural and social circles reflect on the future as a matter of time, people and the world.

In this seven-channel video installation, two pairs of identical twin musicians circle each other, playing the same endless song.

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character’s thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity’s eternal quest for meaning.

As much about light, color, texture and sound as it is about “story,” “Beautiful Like Elsewhere” evokes a mysterious dreamscape of shimmering tableaux that seem to exist just on the edge of consciousness. Populated by human and nonhuman organisms, classical images and pure form, this allusive world, which may be a vision of the afterlife, hints at a deeper level of awareness and meanings beyond words.

Xiangyun’s search of a path in his life, his insecurities and hopes, traveling from Guangzhou to Paris to study cinema. I join him in Guangzhou, one of the first China's Special Economic Zones, during their strong and humid summer. There, with the insight offered by three intimate interviews, he helps me discover the inner forces that drive people’s movements in China.

A lyric documentary of a distant journey from Atacama Desert to Patagonia, carrying a camera and a tripod over the shoulders, from a fog oasis to a bygone estancia in a pursuit journey to find life. Horacio is a former priest, archaeologist and anthropologist who researches a fog oasis in the Atacama desert which was inhabited by primitive cultures centuries ago. Alfonso is a lawyer who chose to retire to Patagonia to revive an old sheep estancia in decline. Through lengthy conversations immersed in astounding landscapes, the documentary reveals the strong link they hold with their inhabited place, leading a life of deep connections in isolated territories. Revolving around life, modernity, resistance and change, their stories unveil unique life experiences and singular insights.

Found footage, visual postcards written in the 1990s on VHS, fragments of a new life abroad passed on, sent by planes or buses to Kosovo, and pictures sent back from the country. Hugs on platforms, cars leaving, weddings and birthdays. Dancing and tears: lots of tears of joy and despair. Repeatable situations create chronicles of torn lives, uncertainty, and suspended existences.

"An evolutionary fever dream. Futurist, post apocalyptic . . . . Animated collage emerging from fluid becomings. Evolution - evolution as the uncontainability of change which is located in the destabilization of relations between the concrete and the imagined. Science fiction is produced out of cultural necessity- a liminal presence that inhabits prediction and flux, resisting definition and containment. Science fiction and technology are tools, as magic is, for transformation." - Mer Maggie Roberts

About Elsewhere seeks to foreground the impossibility of fixing notions of sexuality through ideas of 'identity' and 'language'. As the film moves through the various worlds the filmmaker inhabits, it suggests a self in constant formation; one that constructs itself from parts and places that are in themselves, fragments of memory and experience.

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of friendship condensed into four minutes...

Poetic documentary and comedy. A painter and a photographer wander aimlessly through the Victorian bush, looking at trees and for people to paint with.

On her first night in the city, Jen meets Todd; she spends the night with him, only to discover he has already departed the morning after. Two years on, Todd reappears and disrupts the life Jen has created with her new boyfriend, Ethan. Tensions build and feelings resurface with a newfound fervor as Jen and Todd are inescapably drawn to each other, almost as if against their better judgment, struggling to find themselves and each other in the eternally changing city.

Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary gay beach.

A stop motion 1930s fairy tale follows a monster that yearns to be a part of civilized human society. After an unfortunate mishap, the monster’s hopes of being one with the humans is put on trial.

Recovering from a toxic relationship, James Savage confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth. James learns that the only route to love is through healing.

A look at the US death metal band's recording of their 2022 album 'Timeless Zero' at the Hansa Studios in Berlin.