Sullivan's Banks (2001)

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.

Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi in the summer of 2013. Glimpses of side and main streets, over railings and under balconies, of an architectural cacophony. The voiceover spoken by Natja Brunckhorst reflects on the nature of streets and public spaces.

A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this conversation could be turned into a film. And this is the very film we’re watching the two of them in.

Vicente (Gabino Rodríguez) is a young farmer in a rural village who scrapes by while taking care of his ill grandmother. Several of Vicente’s uncles intend to their ailing mother’s land without her knowledge. Vicente seeks help from the municipal president who, between shooting hoops on a desolate court, tells him that if he wants justice, he must head to the capital to meet with government officials. Although he hasn’t seen her since he was a child, Vicente sets off in search of his mother, who works as a maid in maze-like Mexico City. With the help of his mother’s employer, a sophisticated middle-aged woman, he finds the government offices where he presents his case. His situation isn’t easily resolved, especially since he does not have the deed to his grandmother’s plot of land, and Vicente finds the complexities of the legal system to be completely overwhelming.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweeping over tiled floors, an expressive façade of countless adjustable panes of glass covered by a patina. It’s October 2016 and a group of young people are preparing a preview of Bickels [Socialism]. The venue is to form a prologue to the completed film, which tours 22 buildings in Israel designed by Samuel Bickels, most of which for kibbutzim. Dining halls, children’s houses, agricultural buildings, bright structures inserted into the Mediterranean landscape with great ingenuity. An architecture with a sell-by date: That many are now empty or have been repurposed at best is linked to the decline of the socialist ideals they embody.

Through a series of interviews and enactments we learn the story of Nico and Amalio, two children who lost a friend while climbing a mountain. Documentary and fiction seamlessly merge creating a hybrid, poetic film.

The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo which could have inspired the work of Eladio Dieste, the subject of the main part of the film. The industrial and functional buildings presented span the period from 1955 to 1994; their organic brick construction is astonishing and inspiring.

An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.

Durante un período de cuatro años, Camila Freitas grabó las vidas de un grupo de trabajadores sin tierra en el estado brasileño de Goiás. Desde 2015, los trabajadores han ocupado una parte del sitio de una fábrica y han exigido una reforma agraria. Chão proporciona información sobre la rutina diaria del grupo, que se divide entre labrar la tierra, el activismo político y hablar de cómo podría ser un futuro mejor.

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid his local villagers of superstition and instead save them for Jesus.

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.

The travels in Italy of director Andrei Tarkovsky in preparation for the making of his film Nostalghia.

Huyendo de la justicia, Marion Crane se refugia en el motel de Norman Bates, un hombre oscuro cuyas víctimas van cayendo en las misteriosas redes de su madre. Marion será la próxima. Su desaparición hará que su hermana y un detective privado emprendan su búsqueda. Remake del clásico de Hitchcock.

Cuando una pareja regresa de la boda de unos amigos, estalla una violenta tormenta y el coche se les avería. Así las cosas, no tienen más remedio que refugiarse en un castillo, donde el doctor Frank-N-Furter vive entregado a la fabricación de una especie de Frankenstein.

Una vez concluida la temporada de surf y ya de vuelta en el instituto, la relación del despreocupado Brady con la estudiosa Mack, se enfrenta a un mar de dificultades. De repente reciben una visita sorpresa en el mundo real de Lela, Tanner, Butchy y sus nuevos amigos, quienes, extraordinariamente, han salido de "Wet Side Story".

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the isolation, and the desire to escape are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept by a brother of the filmmaker’s friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to a Japanese teenager who jumped into a volcano, spawning over a thousand imitations. While this is a serious exploration of a cultural taboo, its lyrical qualities invite the viewer to approach the subject with understanding and compassion.

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Retrato del carguero Fair Lady, de tripulación en su mayoría filipina. El barco, entre las conversaciones alienadas con tierra firme, se convierte en un escenario fantasmal en el que Alien podría asomar en cualquier esquina. Un voltaje sensorial que carga las tintas del suspense con visión apocalíptica de este trozo de humanidad a la deriva por aguas internacionales.

Fernando decide enfrentarse a la naturaleza contaminada de Tras-os-Montes en busca de cigüeñas negras, una especie en vías de extinción. Mientras observa a estos animales salvajes a bordo de su canoa, vuelca debido a los rápidos. Salvado milagrosamente por dos turistas chinas que se perdieron recorriendo el camino hacia Santiago de Compostela, escapa al bosque a la espera de encontrar la senda de regreso. El bosque, salvaje y misterioso, no tarda en mostrar su lado oscuro, sembrando a su paso obstáculos y encuentros cuanto menos inquietantes. El suyo será un viaje iniciático hacia la búsqueda de sí mismo, de una iluminación mística pasoliniana, de lo pagano a lo divino.