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Can a new generation of artists conquer the Bastille today? For the very first time, 30 dancers reinvent Rameau’s baroque masterpiece “Les Indes Galantes”. None of them has a classical training, they are all masters of krump, break, popping and voguing. It is a premiere for director Clément Cogitore and choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And it’s a premiere for the Paris Opera itself, bringing urban dance and lyrical song together in a lively, colourful dialogue. From rehearsals to the premiere, we follow the dancing adventure and its challenges. "Indes Galantes" is a vibrant film, artistic, human and politically gripping. The film tells the collective dimension of this inspiring project, while the camera gives the individual protagonists space to express their feelings and shows how they put their heart and soul into this work. In "Indes Galantes" we can see how they overcome the barriers between these different worlds. And we learn through them how we can all admire each other.

After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, gray donkey EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind.

Five young men from Medellin embark on a journey to the Colombian Bajo Cauca to claim a piece of land that one of them has inherited. On their odyssey to the land where they can finally be free, they will confront violence and discover beauty. They will celebrate life and friendship, but they will not be able to escape the fate the world has in store for them.

With his band Zeal & Ardor, Swiss musician Manuel Gagneux was catapulted overnight from the underground to the big stages of the world. The bold mix of Black Metal and old work songs and field hollers by enslaved African-Americans – his answer to a racist provocation on the Internet – is politically explosive. Religion, racism, segregation and appropriation: With his music Gagneux questions and breaks taboos. But being praised as a new kind of leader by his fans frightens the introverted artist. How can he deal with the oversized expectations? Filmmakers Olivier Joliat and Matthias Willi show us the fairy-tale rise of a musician and his band - and how fame affects creative work.

The theater group Valendas from the Safiental in the canton of Grisons adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grotesque novel "Durcheinandertal". They consider the material suitable to represent their world theatrically. The novel tells the story of a foundation that is supposed to help a remote mountain valley to prosperity. The film accompanies the creative process up to the performance in front of an audience. The Safiental is considered a "space with little potential". It is time to depopulate such valleys and leave them to nature. This is the politically pointed debate. Director Bruno Moll has adapted the book for the stage and follow the creative process from rehearsal to performance in front of an audience.

Rachel is 40 years old, with no children. She loves her life: her high school students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she becomes attached to Leila, his 4-year-old daughter. She tucks her into bed, cares for her, loves her like her own. But to love other people’s children is risky. Rebecca Zlotowski delivers a deeply personal, intimate and profoundly moving story of longing and belonging with Virginie Efira and Roschdy Zem.

As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.

With her worldwide success “Fear of Flying”, the New Yorker Erica Jong inspired the sexual liberation of women. She dared to set out for herself and demanded an encounter on equal terms. She wanted to change the world and still wants to today. With her own story, with her humour and with trust in the power of words.

"The Reason I Jump" is based on the bestselling book The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida and exposes an intense and overwhelming but at the same time sensuous, undiscovered universe. Through intimate portraits of remarkable young men from all across the globe who share his fate, Higashida reveals for us what it is like to be autistic, a world he himself documented at the age of 13. An intense journey of discovery, this documentary has a clear message: Just because you can’t speak, it doesn’t mean you don’t have anything to say.

Saint-Omer court of law. 30-year-old novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman who stands accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter after abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. Rama is planning to fashion a contemporary retelling of the myth of Medea from the case. But as the trial continues, nothing goes as she had expected, and the 4 months pregnant author will have to question the truth of her own experience of maternity.

On the barrier island of Sapelo, two young brothers are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the wilderness like their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, did as a child. As Sapelo’s storyteller and elder matriarch, she works to preserve what remains of this island community established by her ancestors. At the dawn of adolescence, the brothers inherit her hope, but their bond is tested as they begin to face the wider world. The documentary by Nick Brandestini was awarded the Sesterce d'or for Best Feature Film at Visions du Réel 2020.

A brother and a sister (Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupard) in their early fifties… Alice is an actress; Louis was a teacher and poet. Alice has hated her brother for more than twenty years. They haven’t seen each other in all that time – if by chance Louis ran into the sister, she’d ignore him and run away… But following the sudden death of their parents, brother and sister will be forced to see each other again.

Pietro is a boy from the city, Bruno the last child of a forgotten mountain village. Daringly they explore the abandoned houses of the mountain village, roam through valleys on endless summer days, follow the torrent to its source. Years later, they take different paths. While Bruno founds a family in his home village and yet never really feels at home, Pietro is drawn to the wide world. The invisible bond between them, however, brings Pietro back home again and again, in search of refuge and friendship. But they have long since disagreed on where to find happiness in life. The film, with Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi playing the grown-up versions of Pietro et Bruno, had its world premiere in May 2022 at the Cannes International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Jury Prize.

It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. A band of young people is trying to overcome the weariness of a summer in the village that smells of death by smoking, dancing, and lusting after each other. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana and José live a love affair until the storm bursts.

Ten-year-old Lucy is well-behaved, honest, polite and always in a good mood. But one day, the ice cream machine in Lucy's family's gelateria breaks down. With no one willing to extend credit for the costly repairs, Lucy soon sees only one solution: she plans to rob a bank to save the family business from bankruptcy.

Coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost community of the United States - has become a little more complicated for the local youth than it was for their ancestors who originally named this place “Ukpiagvik” (“where we hunt snowy owls”). They are the twenty-first century descendants of a culture that has endured for millennia on this isolated, but rapidly changing tundra. The harvest of the agvik (bowhead whale) remains the heart of their culture. "Children of the Arctic" is a year-in-the-life portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers navigating between both being modern American teenagers and the inheritors of an endangered culture.

Asja, a 40-year-old single woman, lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She’s matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love but forgiveness.

A whimsical tale about old age. Irma and Henry live the dream of eternal love, which might end badly. While Leopold and Alex get to know each other through a weird car crash, a jailbird can’t cope with his new freedom. Instead, he gains the heart of a beautiful flower lady. And Johann, the doctor, bursts into tears with every patient. Just one doesn’t like this: Death.

In the late 1980s, Rose (Annabelle Lengronne) moves from Africa to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons (Stéphane Bak and Ahmed Sylla). Spanning more than 30 years from their arrival in France to the present day, Leonor Serraille’s moving follow-up to her 2017 debut «Jeune femme» (winner of the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival) is a moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. The term “matter out of place” refers to objects in a place they originally do not belong to. And there are many such objects in the places Nikolaus Geyrhalter visits for this film. In his unique imagery consisting of minutely composed pictures, the director traces immense amounts of waste across our planet. From the mountain tops of Switzerland to the coasts of Greece and Albania, into an Austrian refuse incinerator and then to Nepal and the Maldives, and finally to the deserts of Nevada. "Matter Out of Place" is about human-made refuse, which is surrounding us all the time everywhere. On his journey, Geyrhalter illustrates the sheer endless struggle of people to gain control over the vast amounts of waste that we produce every single day. Collecting, shredding, burning, burying – a Sisyphean task, which ostensibly solves the global problem of rubbish that is stealthily growing.