Films
107 Mothers
Peter Kerekes
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities.
Read moreA House Made of Splinters
Simon Lereng Wilmont
With great intimacy, we follow three kids finding friendship and hope as a group of dedicated social workers create moments of joy and respite in this war-torn and impoverished corner of Eastern Ukraine.
Read moreA Night of Knowing Nothing
Payal Kapadia
As we follow L, and her letters to her estranged lover, we go on a journey through memories and dreamlike exploration of emotions, and political and social disruptions in India.
Read moreAll of Our Heartbeats are Connected Through Exploding Stars
Jennifer Rainsford
With the 2011 tsunami in Japan as a backdrop, All of Our Heartbeats are Connected Through Exploding Stars is an astonishing journey told as an essay on cosmos and how all living things are connected. A contemplative narrative about nature's merciless potential, its delicate qualities - and the forces trying to destroy it.
Read moreBurial
Emilija Škarnulytė
Is it possible to bury the immortal? Burial is a study of the man's extreme capabilities and innovative efforts, in an exploration of the paradox between our technological advances and our increasingly complex relationships with nature.
Read moreDays
Tsai Ming-liang
Two solitary souls finds common ground as the master of slow cinema is back with yet another delicate and profound poem on the human need for connection, or as an ode to loneliness.
Read moreDe Humani Corporis Fabrica
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
The best film from this years Cannes Festival. A film that opens up and dives into the human body. An overwhelming experience and exploration of the capacity of modern surgery, five hundred years after the body was opened up for the first time for science.
Read moreDogwatch
Gregoris Rentis
Mercenaries set sail for a life of action against Somali pirates. Yet, the sea is full of surprises. Or lack, thereof.
Read moreDry Ground Burning
Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta
This hybrid western features sisters Chitarra and Léa, tough leaders of an all-female gang that refines oil drawn from an illegal underground pipeline in the Sol Nascente favela in Brazil. Interspersed with street protests and dance parties they sell gasoline to working-class motorcycle-delivery riders who depend on it to survive.
Read moreFaya Dayi
Jessica Beshir
“Everyone chews to get away. Their flesh is here, but their soul is gone.” Jessica Beshir’s haunting feature documentary debut is a spiritual, dreamlike and hypnotic journey into the highlands of Harar.
Read moreFragments from Heaven
Adnane Baraka
The Moroccan desert has recently experienced several large meteor showers. In its arid lands now, rest some celestial pieces. A group of nomads, a scientist and a business man are all on a meticulous hunt for those tiny stones in the desert. Stones they hope can change their lives.
Read moreIn Spring
Mikhail Kaufman
In “Pyramiden” at SALT you get to immerse yourself in an audiovisual world with the screening of In Spring.
Read moreInner Lines
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Just like the mountain; harsh and relentless, the landscape of Mount Ararat contains the stories and testimonies of the Yezidi people. Inner Lines is simply a magnificent film that takes your breath away, makes you cry, angry and fascinated at the same time. A must see from this years program.
Read moreKoyaanisqatsi
Godfrey Reggio
Undeniably, the masterpiece of artistic documentaries and an ultimate classic in film history. Co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, shot using 35 mm film and with the specially composed music score by Philip Glass, this is certainly not only an astounding audiovisual experience but also an immense contribution to documentary as an art form.
Read moreLeviathan
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Already with a cult status, and one of cinema history's finest and most daring documentaries. Leviathan takes you on a roller coaster journey, experiencing the cacophonic craziness of commercial fishing, as experienced from even the fishes point of view.
Read moreMother Lode
Matteo Tortone
Mother Lode is an archetypal fairytale where reality blends with magic, dream collides and melts with the material world and the myth of richness is built on sacrifice. Without superiority, pity or judgment, director Matteo Tortone, makes us all enter a hellish world where now and then miners mysteriously disappear, since gold belongs to the Devil.
Read moreMuseum of the Revolution
Srđan Keča
Inside the remnants of an abandoned utopian architecture project, a young girl takes us on a journey through her adventurous but challenging life. A beautifully tender and sensitive story of family relations and broken dreams.
Read morePolaris
Ainara Vera
Explore the intimate relationship of sisterhood between two sisters, Hayat and Leila. A touching story told in the perspective of sailor Hayat where we get to see how the two sisters have sticked together throughout their troubled upbringing in to adulthood where they stay in touch even though they are worlds apart.
Read moreRojek
Zaynê Akyol
Establishing a caliphate was the ultimate dream of members of the Islamic State, currently detained in prison-camps. ROJEK encounters members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate.
Read moreShort Film Program - International
Flatpack Film Festival Presents
"Britain’s most exciting and innovative film festival” (Lonely Planet) takes the curatorial baton for this special screening. Coming up to its 17th edition, Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival has been steadily making waves on the international festival circuit for its open, inventive and unique take on film; in particular its distinct BAFTA qualifying short film competition programme. Head of Programme Sam Groves picks out a few of the more playful short docs that have graced their festival programme over the last few years.
Read moreShort Film Program - Norwegian
Paul Tunge, Frøydis Fossli Moe, C. S. Nicholson
A collection of Norwegian Short films by directors Paul Tunge, Frøydis Fossli Moe and C.S Nicholson
Read moreTerra Femme
Courtney Stephens
A time machine of passed memories. A fascinating journey shows the recorded experiences of some of the first western women to record their travels on film. A female gaze on the world around us, and a journey coming to life again through cinema. A fantastic film that lets us see the world from a feminine viewpoint.
Read moreThe Eclipse
Nataša Urban
First Norwegian screening of this award winning movie, internationally acclaimed for its intimacy and delicate beauty. The 1999 solar eclipce serves as a central motif in a meticulous portrayal of how ex-Yugoslavias dark past lingers in the present.
Read moreThe Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda
Cinemateket presents: As part of the MIRAGE Classics Agnès Vardas magnificent The Gleaners and I. (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is both a diary and an essay which is both personal and political simultaneously, while also being a deeply reflective and entertaining film, influenced heavily by Vardas own humour and enthusiasm. We follow Varda on a journey around France, where she is in the company of a small DV-Camera, while they trace and document alternative culture’s.
Read moreThe Great Movement
Kiro Russo
Following the life of Elder, we are brought along on a journey through fantastical genres, from documentary themes to dance videos. A narrative that brings suffering and redemption, while following the path of physical work.
Read moreUltraviolette and the Blood Spitters Gang
Robin Hunzinger
A masterful mosaic story that digs deep down into the untold story of intense love, of sickness and resilience. The story of a first love that marked two teenage girls forever.
Read moreUnder the Sky Shelter
Diego Acosta
With its sublime 16mm black and white images and incomparable soundscape, Under the Shelter Sky stands out as one of last year's great artistic experiences. A shepherd roams the Chilean plains with thousands of sheep in this evocative journey portrayed as a nostalgic dream of lost time.
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