Paulina Pisarek

The prison in Volterra, Tuscany, is home to a unique artistic practice: It is within these walls that Armando Punzo, shut away for three decades with men serving long sentences, has created his plays.

Babyracer doesn't see the track as a circle, he sees it as an endless road. He is afraid, he might get lost and never find the finish line.

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert setting. Music in the making, constellations of energies, an ever-expanding universe of sound…

Mathieu Amalric’s film with John Zorn began as a European TV commission that was quickly abandoned in favor of something more intimate: an ongoing dialogue between two friends that will always be a work-in-progress.

In pursuit of ghosts and evil spirits, director Maria Pinto reinvents the paternity suit brought by Joao, her father, against the Dentist in Salazar's Portugal. A cross between fact and fiction, a celebration of family memory.

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to programme during his concerts, like a musical set. They are screened here for the first time out of a concert setting. Music in the making, constellations of energies, an ever-expanding universe of sound…

Nioumoune Island, Senegal. Boniface, a young priest torn between his desires, escapes from his parish. The edge of his makeshift boat, it crosses a disturbing maze of mangroves. In search of freedom, he began a journey that will confront his past, his hidden desires and the vastness of the Mauritanian desert.