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Toppling statues and symbols, constructing new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan…

Singeli, a super-fast electronic music genre, was born at the turn of the century in the Mburahati slum of Dar es Salaam, when, after 40 years of building a socialist…

Intended to be the pilot for a television series about ‘people and places’, Portrait of Gina is a journey to Italy, where Orson Welles discusses the Roman movie world with…

Among the most iconic Hollywood men of the 1950s and 1960s, Rock Hudson embodied masculinity and straightness until his diagnosis and death from AIDS in 1985 shattered the hall-of-mirrors of…

In Pirenópolis, Goiás, the Celebration of the Divine has been taking place for 200 years. Tita was born in the small town and has precious memories of the party. Years…

Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who became an icon of dissidence and a reference for the Latin American underground scene after her death in 2014. Through multiple intimate…

A cinematographic adaptation of the piece Poema, by the Portuguese thinker Tomás Maia. An audiovisual poiesis, “presented in a double movement, of flux and reflux, descending and ascending, in a…

Yves crosses the centuries and returns to the small village of Saint-Jean-du Doigt. During his wanderings, he meets a shaman in touch with the spirits, a painter in search of…

Caiti Lord had always dreamt of being a singer. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she studied at the best music schools and performed on Broadway. Her future was sparkling bright. But…

Based on the 2021 English National Ballet stage production and choreographed by Akram Khan, the film unfolds the story of Creature, who has been unknowingly enlisted by a military brigade…

An unusually intimate psychological portrait of legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez, which moves back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her farewell tour and delves…

Cyndi Lauper is followed through exclusive never-before-seen footage, candid interviews and untold stories as she fearlessly blazes her own trail after achieving chart-topping success and continuing to create and champion…

If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes sets out to…

In the spring of 2017, Franco Maresco invited the great saxophonist Joe Lovano to play in Palermo for the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane’s death. A few weeks later, they…

Father of video art and coiner of the term ‘electronic superhighway’, Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born in Japan-occupied Korea, he…

The archipelago of Cape Verde and its society developed, throughout their ethnological formation, a mixture of cultures that transformed and recreated the original elements with others brought by cultures from…

The director Jorge de Carvalho and his students meet the legendary Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina in a fake tropical jungle in Lisbon, where a memorable conversation takes place. The documentary…

An intimate portrait of English punk singer-songwriter and Libertines’ legendary front man, Peter Doherty, as he plunges into the depths of addiction at the very height of his popularity. Over…

Siete Jereles is a journey through the streets of Jerez for seven nights and takes shape in its neighbourhoods, family sagas and festivals, tradition and modernity. There are myths that…

Where is our house? Which is our real house? The Lisbon one? The Porto one? The theatre one? The film one? How are we to embrace the whole world from…

An iconoclastic instigator of the Nouvelle Vague, Varda reinvented film and what stories it could tell. Varda herself is an instantly recognisable figure, who we have come to know through…