Lights

A philosophy student starts filming his life and compares the videos with his memories to explore the limits of human perception. The videos seem very reliable at first, but he soon realizes their flaws as he is constantly aware of being watched and judged by an unseen entity: his future self.

Twelve people move about four marked paths on the condition that their movements and trajectories resemble one another as much as possible; movement becomes autonomous, time is transformed, all in one shot.

It was Denmark's largest work of art and at the same time triggered a historic shitstorm when the artist Elle-Mie Ejdrup created a 532 km long line of laser light along the Nazi bunkers on the west coast on May 4, 1995. Former resistance fighters, top politicians and the press fought fiercely over the work. After receiving death threats and being sent out into the cold for two decades, the team behind the work is now telling the story.

A man desires to overcome the restraint of his fears and embarks on a journey towards discovery through life, love, and self.

An anthology film shaped by six people who share their desires and imagination. Each part works towards a whole which is concerned with perception and being perceived.

Teng and Mai seek temporary refuge inside a shelter for pregnant women and girls. Mai, unlike Teng, is not a first time mother. She went to Manila to work as housekeeper after her passport was faked by the agency that’s supposed to help her get a job abroad. On the other hand, Teng left Negros Occidental without her father’s consent. Her eagerness to provide for her family was driven by her mother who abandoned them. Their personal dilemma led them to a shelter where they receive proper care as they prepare for motherhood. Now that their stay has come to an end, they are bound to make the hardest decisions of their lives not just as daughters to their parents but as mothers to their babies.

Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, he set up a studio fitted with film equipment that was almost entirely of his own fabrication. He wrote scripts, built sets, and innovated new methods of sound recording and transmission. As an enthusiastic inventor, he produced and directed the first Syrian film with sound. His dream was to film and screen a 3D film. An ode to cinema, this documentary is a portrait of Shahbandar.

Young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort, but he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie. Van Oort is also trying to win Annie's affections, and in his jealousy he decides to remind Hendrik of what he knows about his past...

Beatrice will soon go blind. She tries to explore all the streets and intersections of Paris, so that later she can move around without a stick. One night, she meets a battered guy on the street and helps him regain his senses.

The protagonist is a young man – imprisoned for life. His past, however, remains unclear. He comes to live on a deserted island in a lighthouse filled with books. Apparently, his life's only meaning now is to read them. Only reading them could somehow set him free.

Director Kirk Horton’s film explores a woman’s journey with depression, her ongoing mental health efforts, and what diving into the darkness of deep water has taught her about life and light.

Bungaeman, or Lightning Man, is every Korean kid's superhero! Was he a brave hero from the beginning? Lightning Man and his friends set out on the search of seven lightnings to protect Joy Land! Out come the secrets of Bungaeman from when he was a timid fire fighter who became a super hero!

The return of juvenilia! Shots of Rome circa 1973 on splendid Ferraniacolor reversal stock, developed years later and then lost, that somehow survived the decades. Half a century and some digital editing later, this footage is a piece of cinehypnotica that is at once visionary and soothing.

8mm filmwork by Tamami Midorikawa. Endless dreams spread in a garden of appetite and libido.

Using a camera moving along a predetermined path to create the effect of a simulated zoom, Sweet Light refers to the seduction of illumination, focusing on the phototropic vision of a moth. Writes Viola, "A moth emerges from a discarded letter as the spirit of a dead thought and — after an attempted flight to freedom — an individual appears, is inexorably drawn into the source of light, and consumed."

Yoo-jung decides to take a guitar class before her trip to Europe with her boyfriend. Coincidentally, the guitar teacher has the same name as Hannah, the main character of the love song she wants to learn. Yoo-jung spends a month of summer singing a love song for Hannah in front of Hannah.

A mess of time-lapse and bulb photography using Kodachrome 25 reversal film.

Two girls hug each other.

In 1953 Herbert Tobias was the first German photographer to work for Vogue in Paris. He was expelled from France in the same year however on account protesting during a raid at a gay venue in the French capital. Success and failure were always Herbert Tobias’ twin companions. Having taken his first photographs as a soldier in the German army, after the war he worked as an actor and fell in love. After coming out in 1950, he escaped arrest by going to Paris where he found refuge at Willy Maywald’s studio. His initial success as a photographer was swiftly followed by his expulsion. Moving to Heidelberg, he competed successfully with 18,000 contestants to win a newspaper photography competition run by the Frankfurter Illustrierte. Tobias was on top again; much in demand as a photographer, his work was shown at exhibitions and he was also the subject of articles. This film illuminates the life and work of this artist in all its breadth and diversity.

In a rocky island exposed to the elements, a lighthouse keeper lives alone with his daughter. From the top of his tower, the father keeps vigil to the horizon line and for the safety of the passing sails. With no other company, the girl develops a unique complicity with the sea, which brings her toys in the shape of debris on the shore. Following the rhythm of the waves, these objects will unveil previous events, memories that the tide cannot erase…