Les sentiers culturels

Portrait of a Wind-up Maker

Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of art from recycle items.

Mangrove Women

Hollywood Hobbies

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

99 days

Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.

Keep That Dream Burning

Rainer Kohlberger applied various algorithms to extract the noise from a vast number of action films and used this to reduce the dramaturgy of the narrative to its essence. keep that dream burning oscillates between maximum abstraction and pure blur. Within the blurriness, objects form and disappear. The surface allows the space to be conceived.

Thaumatropes

The 16th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Mr Seymour, the hero of the book by London doctor Mr Paris, shows his invention – the thaumatrope – to a little girl and explains how it works. The superimposition of the images is not perfect, so he invents the use of elastic instead of the usual string. Only by recording the two successive images of the thaumatrope on a title bench can they be viewed perfectly. Numerous examples are shown.

Circular

A story about obsession and yearning for the infinite.

We're in the Movies, Now!

Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.

Éloge du chiac

Set in New Brunswick, "Éloge du chiac" takes the form of an open discussion between a young French-language teacher and her students in Moncton. Through their exchanges, Michel Brault examines the challenges of preserving French in a bilingual region where English predominates, and explores the contested status of Chiac, a local French dialect shaped by centuries of linguistic contact.

Entire Days Together

A young girl is cured of her epilepsy just as summer vacation is about to begin. During her last days with her classmates, she’ll come to experience life in a new way. Arranged as a series of elliptical tableaux, this haunting narrative from Luise Donschen (Casanova Gene) captures a simultaneous sense of discovery and disorientation as it proceeds from the confines of the classroom to a wider world of adolescent anxieties.

Heart

Yollotl connects the past and the present through a love story inspired by Mesoamerican mythology and testimonials from children who live in the Mayan rainforest. A story in Nahuatl and a ritual song accompanies the journey through the interior of ancient trees to the universe.

Kaiserbauten in Fernost

Documentation of a journey along the Great Wall of China to the Ku-Pei-Kuo pass fortress.

Condor über Feuerland

Short documentary about condors

A Day in Forillon

This short film illustrates a day in the life at Forillon National Park. Situated on the Gaspé peninsula in Quebec, the park offers spectacular views of sea, mountain and forest. A monumental landscape not to be missed. A film without words.

Schwarzlicht 3001

Documentary film about a theater project at a school for mentally disabled children. For four months, the film crew observed the rehearsals of the students and teachers.

Jugend im Tanz

Documentary about the training of young dancers at the ballet school of the German Opera House in Charlottenburg.

Sie waren Nachbarn

Three young people, one Jewish and two Christian, set out to search for traces of Jewish life and Jewish history in Germany.

Die Kuh aus der Pipette

Walkers of time

María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.

Alan Evans: The Rhondda Legend

1975: Alan Evans, aka the Rhondda Legend, was making decent money for playing darts.