Essay Film Movies

  • 2000
    Fungus

    Fungus

    Fungus

    02000HD

    This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and...

    Fungus
  • 2020
    The World in Our Hands

    The World in Our Hands

    The World in Our Hands

    102020HD

    A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

    The World in Our Hands
  • 2018
    The Sun Sets in the East

    The Sun Sets in the East

    The Sun Sets in the East

    02018HD

    A documentary film contrasting present-day Lithuania with extracts from a peasant's diary from 1984/85.

    The Sun Sets in the East
  • 2020
    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    02020HD

    Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and of the strong, shining beacon inviting us to...

    From the Earth to the Moon
  • 2019
    Heimat Is a Space in Time

    Heimat Is a Space in Time

    Heimat Is a Space in Time

    6.62019HD

    Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...

    Heimat Is a Space in Time
  • 2022
    Boobs

    Boobs

    Boobs

    62022HD

    A witty, forthright dive into the wonderful world of boobs by singer and filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey – from enhanced boobs to 'free the nipple',...

    Boobs
  • 2020
    Fram – Forward

    Fram – Forward

    Fram – Forward

    62020HD

    Why do we do incredibly difficult things that have no practical application? Is there a parallel between geographic and artistic exploration? Fram...

    Fram – Forward
  • 2017
    #movieofmylife

    #movieofmylife

    #movieofmylife

    02017HD

    Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

    #movieofmylife
  • 1989
    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories

    6.21989HD

    A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
  • 1970
    Blue Sunshine

    Blue Sunshine

    Blue Sunshine

    01970HD

    Blue Sunshine is a meditation on grief. Through dreamlike images and fictional scenarios, the director dialogues with her past and present,...

    Blue Sunshine
  • 2019
    The Scars

    The Scars

    The Scars

    102019HD

    The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

    The Scars
  • 2012
    I skuggan

    I skuggan

    I skuggan

    02012HD

    Two quotes from Paul Valéry: "Humanity is threatened by two dangers: order and disorder." and "Nothing is more contrary to your nature than to...

    I skuggan
  • 2002
    Nonstop

    Nonstop

    Nonstop

    02002HD

    Nonstop
  • 2018
    The Green Fog

    The Green Fog

    The Green Fog

    5.9812018HD

    A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California,...

    The Green Fog
  • 2019
    How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It

    How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It

    How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It

    02019HD

    "How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how...

    How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It
  • 2012
    Play History

    Play History

    Play History

    02012HD

    "Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

    Play History
  • 2017
    The Road to Magnasanti

    The Road to Magnasanti

    The Road to Magnasanti

    6.52017HD

    In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises,...

    The Road to Magnasanti
  • 2025
    And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

    And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

    And there was evening and there was morning. The first day

    102025HD

    With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s...

    And there was evening and there was morning. The first day
  • 2025
    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

    The Making of Michel Petite

    02025HD

    The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

    The Making of Michel Petite
  • 2020
    Pineapple

    Pineapple

    Pineapple

    02020HD

    A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor...

    Pineapple