SECULAR | Aa'La'Ma'Ni

How is secularism depicted in films? The term "Aa'La'Ma'Ni" means worldly in Arabic. It's significant in the Middle East, where secularism is controversial since the majority often link secularism with atheism and anti-

re-ma(r)king

Drawing on her experience of growing up in the Greek diaspora, Eugenia Raskopoulos' work 're-ma(r)king' reflects on how cultural knowledge is transferred across contexts and between generations through objects, rituals a

Ma'ohi Nui: In the Heart of the Ocean My Country Lies

For thirty years in the late-twentieth century, the people of Tahiti survived dozens of offshore nuclear tests by the French government. Since the country was colonized in 1880, the blasts left Tahitians picking through

Exorcism: Haunted Child

Three young people – My Lan, Thien Tam and Khuong Duy – encounter strange, mysterious, and frightening things happening around them.

Me, My Sister and the Thing

7 year-old Mondher lives in a rural village in the south of Tunisia, his sister Mariem is going to get married with Touhami's son and do it.

Sandalwood Sa Ri Ga Ma

'Sandalwood Sa Ri Ga Ma' is based on the story of a person who quits his job to join the Kannada film industry as a director. 'Sandalwood Sa Ri Ga Ma' narrates a newcomer's experience of joining the film industry and com

Lettre à ma fille

Spreading across the beach and streets of Benin. A moving letter from a mother to her future daughter expresses the challenges and joys of growing up as a woman. Through song and dance, a tribe of women dispels fairy tal

Ma Très Chair Fraiche

Horace, his body decaying, asks existential questions during the meal he is enjoying. He savours a woman's finger from which he spits out an engagement ring. His wife, in a state similar to his, handcuffed to the refrige

mach ma nich die welle

Don't make a fuss

Yes, Ma'am

Filmed in the stately mansions of New Orleans, Yes, Ma'am shows the role of the black domestic workers in keeping up the gracious lifestyle so closely associated with the old South. On the surface there is a harmonious

Umberto Tozzi - Ma che spettacolo

Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema

Documentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on New Zealand cinema.

Bedřich Smetana: Má vlast

Charlotte de Turckheim : On m'a pas prévenue !

I(MA)E – Now – Before

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

This Man Changed Me

A French graduate student, Sophie, wants to make a research and shoot a documentary about Iran to present it to her professor and university. Her French born Iranian friend Shahnaz suggests that the title of the Document

1001 Crowns for My Head

Each braid, each curl, each hairstyle reflects a collective memory. 1001 Crowns immerses you in an experience where hair becomes an act of self-affirmation and identity. By giving voice to historians, sociologists, dance

Ma chi è questo Grifi

Ma mère qui êtes aux cieux

Paolo, a priest in his forties, and Alma, his older sibling, learn upon their mother’s death that she requested to be buried next to a man who is not their father… But did they ever truly know who their mother was?

Ma Xiaobing's Summer

Ma Xiaobing seeks to move his mother's tomb to his father's burial site so that they can reunite in the Other World. But the turbulent and often violent forces of Chinese urbanization makes this no easy task. In a city o