After the death of his bandmate in 1961, jazz pianist Bill Evans falls into a deep abyss of grief and substance abuse. Through striking black-and-white imagery, director Grant Gee brings this dark chapter of Evan's career to life. 

 "Voyage, voyage" - Mike leads a vagrant life on the streets, forced to be a survival artist. Caught in a self-destructive downward spiral, he tries to get his life back on track. Can he escape the vices of his past?

Buying people's tears – is it art? And can you use art to process your trauma? Patryk and Maria try to therapise themselves and find their way in the Warsaw art scene. Is this escapism or a safe space?

Maternity is an extremely stressful situation: the constant wailing, the changing of full diapers, the heavy bleeding, the fear of losing your mind, the forest that is slowly encroaching on your home – Wait a minute, what??!

After the death of his bandmate in 1961, jazz pianist Bill Evans falls into a deep abyss of grief and substance abuse. Through striking black-and-white imagery, director Grant Gee brings this dark chapter of Evan's career to life. 

Hazy and emotionally connected to its characters’ plights, Nina Roza dives into the core of what makes art a quintessential human affair – the way it’s highly dependent on the social lives of the people who make it.

Maggi sets sail, Anna lets iron rust and calls it art. Their marriage? Well, that too, in a way. Hlynur Pálmason follows a family as they drift apart – with quirky humour, an Icelandic summer and spectacular 35mm imagery.

Stella Nyanzi is imprisoned for writing a vulgar poem about Uganda’s dictator. But she continues to fight: as an activist, poet, and politician—fearless, outspoken, and unyielding. A compelling portrait of a woman who refuses to be intimidated by any regime.

Algeria, 1575. A young prisoner with a talent for storytelling longs to be free from his captivity, no matter the cost. Cervantes, Spain’s national poet, thus becomes the protagonist of his own journey.

Go to the cinema and just relax: the Scrivers invite you into their home and have plenty to share. Funny, absurd and thought-provoking stories from the everyday lives of the Cree – lovingly, humorously and vividly animated.

In this biting satire, filmmaker Bahram tries to find a cinema in Teheran for his newest film; so far, none of his films have been shown in his home country Iran. A farcical journey through a a climate of censorship and oppression.

There’s something off about the peaceful live Junior and Esther, a Haitian couple, have built for themselves in a Mexican forest. When the daughters are threatened, their journey must go on. But where could they find the garden they are dreaming of?

Part mockumentary, part romance, part adventure film, Memory of Princess Mumbi is a wholly original and imaginative film that dedicates itself to building multiple worlds without losing touch of the humans at its center.

The sleepy village of Vitrival is thrown into turmoil when an unknown person sprays obscenities on the church walls. Then, out of nowhere, a series of suicides begins and the supposed idyll is shattered. Two young police officers take on the case.

How does a young female coyote cope with a breakup and creative drought? Through lengthy phone calls with her mother in Morocco? Or through hookups and parties in New York? Bouchra says: both help!

Clara is a girl growing up in a rural Quechua community in the Andes. She is only allowed to pursue her talent for singing during her work as a midwife, but yearns for the colourful world of Chicha music. 

In 1983, a complete unknown won France’s most prestigious architectural competition. The Dane Johan Otto von Spreckelsen had built four churches to date – and was now tasked with constructing Mitterrand’s landmark building of the century. What followed was a battle: art versus politics, vision versus bureaucracy.

Grace moves to Montreal in 2011—no French, no plan, but a book project about Alanis Morissette. Then she ends up managing an indie band and caught between two men. Chandler Levack’s wild rom-com reinvents the music nerd—this time, she’s a woman.

"Everyone has a problem with girls" - but Sara Shahverdi has a problem with the patriarchy. Just elected head of her Iranian village, she fearlessly turns society upside down.

With a simple setting, precise dialogue, and an ear for playing with noise and silence, Pereda’s film is an often funny exploration of the myth-making processes behind how we tell stories about art, and a deconstruction of its self-seriousness.

Tristan da Cunha: the remotest inhabited island in the world. An enchanted vulcano in the middle of nowhere. Living here, far away from all the noise and stress of the globalised world, seems tempting – but what if it is forever?

Elizabeth is a sex worker with a mission: she wants to offer her services to people with disabilities. She throws herself into her work with great enthusiasm. However, there are still prejudices to overcome on both sides. A debut with a bold message.

Humankind has stopped dreaming and the last dreamer is dying. Like a star that expires in a supernova, he explodes in a final dream that dives deep into his mind and into the history of film. Chinese Inception.

At first glance, she seems like a typical teenager: Ainara enjoys going out with friends and has a crush one of her classmates. But there's a divine calling brewing inside her. Or is it her adolescent mind just playing tricks?

Cinema Verité behind the scenes of the dream factory. Mike Figgis captures the chaotic making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis and portrays the filmmaker and his one-of-a-kind way of working.

A very different kind of rebellion: in Seoul, three elderly people turn dining and dashing into a real art form. Though they are poor like many other people their age, to dine and dash also reflects their desire to lead a dignified life.

A programme of short films curated by Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann and Gunter Deller will explore various facets of art and cinema at the DFF cinema to mark the end of the festival.

Maggi sets sail, Anna lets iron rust and calls it art. Their marriage? Well, that too, in a way. Hlynur Pálmason follows a family as they drift apart – with quirky humour, an Icelandic summer and spectacular 35mm imagery.