AAA Cargo

Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.

Absent Wound

Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in women and men coming of age.

ACTUA I

A collage of scenes from the Paris barricades in May 1968. The 16mm and 35mm footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutionary fever. (Re:Voir)

Açúcar

Against her better judgment, elegant Bethania refuses to relinquish her heritage, instead reviving the past. The old sugar mill is on an estate currently controlled by the descendants of slaves. Are these merely Bethania's dreams, or is candomblé (voodoo) involved?

Adrift

Starting with the first satellite launch in 1958, there are now millions of larger and smaller artefacts orbiting Earth. A floating museum of space exploration above our heads.

After Reality

In this soothingly sedated work, dragon-boat rowers train in heavily vegetated areas of the city. We are transported between seasons and continents without us realising.

After the Exhibition

A deadpan oddity that captures the awkwardness of social interactions. Local artist Qualia finds himself unable to leave his exhibition after its closure.

Agua Viva

With beautiful, emotionally resonant line drawings, Agua Viva captures the loneliness of a nameless Chinese manicurist working in a Miami salon.

Ajji

A 9-year-old girl has gone missing. She was taking granny's stitching to a sex worker in her slum. Once discovering what happened that night, granny quickly realises that the only satisfactory justice lies in her own hands. Masterful atmosphere, full of dread and twists.

Aldeia dos Rapazes – Orfanato Sta. Isabel de Albarraque

Bárbara Virgínia's only short film is about an orphanage. She adopted a perspective exceptional for her era by filming at the children’s eye level.

Aleatoria

Disorder incarnate, the lady of the wheel. Randomness, chance, and the unpredictability of being are at her command. (Winnipeg Film Group) 

Aliens

Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of The Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures.

All the Way to Te Rerenga Wairua

The work asks "what happens to a spirit after death?", between māori and pākehā identity, on the path to heaven or hawaiki. (Circuit)

All You Can Eat Buddha

A mysterious stranger fascinates the clients of a South-American holiday resort. He starts performing miracles on the spot. Who is he? A weird, funny, Zen-like satire on mass tourism, as if simultaneously directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Monty Python (circa The Meaning of Life).

Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night

Ode to the light in the darkness. The eye on one side and the sun on the other are intimately connected.

AlphaGo

When an algorithm repeatedly beats the holder of 18 international titles Lee Sedol at the board game Go, that isn’t just an anecdote for the sport’s annals. Google’s ambitions for the DeepMind software are to not only equal, but to outdo human thinking. Is that a good idea though?

Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water

A young architect embarks on a difficult task: to turn his client's fallen dreams and unreciprocated desires into an elegant eco-home.

L'amant d'un jour

A philosophy lecturer houses his 23-year-old daughter with a broken heart and his mistress of the same age. He tries to be a father to one and lover to the other. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day concludes a trilogy of anecdotal, black-and-white films on the vagaries of love.

Amateurs

A slick marketing film or two teenagers messing with a smartphone and selfie sticks: how do you pitch the colourless Swedish town of Lafors as best candidate for the new branch of discount store Superbilly? The tragicomic Amateurs by Gabriela Pichler (Eat Sleep Die) shows that a slick picture is less interesting than threadbare reality.

Ambiguous Places

Comprised of a series of dream-like episodes beginning with a woman waking up with an insect stuck to her head, Tiger Award winner Ikeda Akira (Anatomy of a Paper Clip) balances otherworldly strangeness with Japanese social pressures in this offbeat comedy that amuses and bewilders in equal measure.

Analysis of Emotions and Vexations 2

Sober, yet ingenious pencil drawing animation with poetic comment and haunting sound capturing the filmmaker's spirit's volatile state. Another year passing by.

Anchor and Hope

Contemporary, bittersweet drama on the classic thirty-something dilemma – to have children or not? Eva and Kat’s relationship is disrupted when Kat can't contain her desire for a child anymore. Kat's best friend is prepared to donate sperm, but Eva isn’t sure being a parent is for her.

Angkar

The filmmaker, daughter from a forced marriage in a Khmer Rouge detention village, returns with her father to meet his former persecutors in the obscure intimacy of the village in which they lived together for four years. Between past and present, the forgotten spectres re-emerge and the story, face-to-face, is finally told.