The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real-time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.
2025-06-24 00.0
What would it be like to become an animal? And would this transformation also bring relief? While we watch flickering shots of nature and people, someone speaks of sentiments, memories, and fears. With the aid of an unsettling music score director Lorenzo Pallotta crafts what might essentially be described as an adventurous atmosphere, nevertheless, his exploration of mysterious places and deep-seated feelings is dominated by a sense of melancholy and, at times, an almost depressing uncertainty. And the deliberate vagueness of the entire film, coming from several directions, creates an irresistibly enigmatic mood.
2025-07-05 00.0
As a boy, the director was sure about it: his uncle Massimo and Lucio Dalla were the same person. In the film he explores that impossible similarity, complicated and remarkable, which helped him understand his uncle’s disability. As he observes his daily life, Lucio Dalla comes back, singing of loneliness, anger, and freedom.
2025-06-14 00.0
An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded the camp’s liberation, and Australian war artist Alan Moore, the first to record the horrors of the BERGEN-BELSEN camp. Frank Shield’s film reflects on the experiences of camp inmates to convey the full horror of the Holocaust. In a moving counterpoint, the film records a reunion between two Jewish survivors, Olga Horak and Helen Schon and war artist, Alan Moore.
2025-06-25 00.0
Emma and Hasan don’t know each other, but they have much in common. Most importantly, they are both sand thieves. Emma steals it for kitty litter, Hasan for making homemade glass. One day, their lives are disrupted by the discovery of a severed finger, and they learn that the human psyche can shatter as easily as glass…
2025-07-07 00.0
In a stripped-down industrial building in Lisbon, two Brazilian brothers train for a jiu-jitsu championship in Rome. One shares his daily life with his girlfriend and her child. The other fights alone, while his beloved is hospitalized back in Brazil. By day, their bodies wrestle. By night, they drive taxis to send money home.
2025-06-18 00.0
It’s prom night, and Leo Walker is alone in his room, spiraling into chaos as he tries to make himself picture-perfect. His nerves take over, turning every attempt into a comical disaster. In this genre-bending short, we’re thrown into the frenzied mind of a teenager under pressure, capturing the messy, emotional whirlwind of what’s supposed to be the most important night of his high school life.
2025-06-26 00.0