Love Stories: Friendship, Cinema, Family, Life

Loving, captivating portrait of the director’s father based on the latter’s 1970 round the world journey.

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had an artist residency in a shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds and kept a journal.

Varda, the most exuberant and generous filmmaker of her generation, invents here an expansive cine-self-portrait in which she explores the beaches of her life.

A documentary about a film workshop for children given by Alicia Vega, a teacher in a marginal quarter of Santiago, to kids whose common characteristic is that they have never been to the movies.

Constantin, Sarah and Gregor live in a polyamorous relationship. The film follows them on their search of a mindful way of dealing with each others emotions.

A documentary that studies the day-to-day life of a Parisian astrologer, who has been residing in the same Montmartre apartment for over 50 years.

At centre of this documentary are the two poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who come to know each other in post-war Vienna.

“João Bénard da Costa was the head of Cinemateca Portuguesa for eighteen years. I walked down his memory lane and found his love for painting, for churches, for Proust and Musil, for Italy, films, Mozart, and for his friends. But what I really wanted was to depict the contradictory man of flesh and blood, a free man.” Manuel Mozos