Films
Section Artists & Auteurs: New work by some of the world’s most original artists and filmmakers.
Abiding Nowhere
A barefoot monk slowly wanders through the streets of Washington DC in Tsai Ming-liang's new and meditative work, which uses few and simple means to send one’s mind wandering (and wondering) along.
Tsai Ming-Liang / Taiwan & United States / 2024
Alreadymade
Is that supposed to be art? Marcel Duchamp's urinal became the most influential artwork of the 20th century, but the story of the iconic piece unravels itself in an intelligent and witty film that dares to ask: Did a woman actually come up with the idea?
Barbara Visser / Netherlands / 2023 / International Premiere
Architecton
Thousands of years of architectural history are woven together in Kossakovsky's visionary epic, a film almost almost dialogue but with images as sharp as flint and a soundtrack as massive as an earth quake.
Victor Kosakovskiy / Germany, France & United States / 2024
Core Memory
A simple and beautiful film about a three-year-old girl spending an afternoon in her own company, with a jar of colour at hand and her own body as a canvas.
Patricia Drati / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Core Memory + You Are Closer To God When You Do Not Indulge + My Next Door Neighbours + Finale
Four artistic Danish short films screened together.
Patricia Drati, Tore Hallas, Maia Torp Neergaard & Marlene Lyngstad / Denmark
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
A Lebanese film crew is hit by a deluge of obstacles while shooting the feature film 'Costa Brava, Lebanon'. But team spirit and a solid sense of humour win out in the end in a wonderful film about sticking together against all odds.
Little Girl Blue
Marion Cotillard gives a hypnotic performance in a phenomenal docu-hybrid that charts one woman's dramatic life in the cultural bohemian milieu of Paris in the 60s and 70s. A reconstruction of a dark family history and an artist's attempt to understand her mother's tragedy.
Mona Achache / France / 2023
Menus plaisirs – Les Troisgros
World-class cooking at a Michelin-starred restaurant in the French countryside, depicted in all its rich detail by legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Lively, humorous and human - and with an eye for the tinist details.
Frederick Wiseman / France / 2023
Reas
A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.
Lola Arias / Argentina, Germany & Switzerland / 2024
Rehab (From Rehab)
How can a building become part of the treatment in physical and mental rehabilitation? A film about architecture, bodies and universal design that could revolutionise the way we shape our shared spaces.
Louise Lemoine & Ila Bêka / France & Switzerland / 2023
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.
Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France & Netherlands / 2024
The Daughters of Fire + Man in Black
Two expressive new films by Pedro Costa and Wang Bing – screened together.
Pedro Costa & Wang Bing / Portugal, France, United States & United Kingdom
The Human Surge 3
A cinematic trip across time and space, shot with a 360-degree camera in an inventive gesture unlike any other in contemporary cinema. Eduardo Willams breaks every conceivable rule of what the cinema experience can be.
The Mother of All Lies
Last year's critically acclaimed Cannes winner is a Moroccan filmmaker's attempt to reconstruct her family's shadowy past. A miniature model of the family's labyrinthine neighbourhood in Casablanca is an important piece in a cinematic puzzle.
Asmae El Moudir / Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia & Qatar / 2023
While the Green Grass Grows
A beautiful and enriching experience from one of the most original voices in documentary filmmaking, who has made his most personal film to date without lowering the philosophical altitude.
Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2023
Youth (Spring)
China's greatest documentary filmmaker was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for his epic portrayal of life behind the sewing machines in the country's vast textile industry, where young employees flirt, argue and dream of the future.