Program ARTA Cinema

Jamuna and her sister live in Kathmandu. They embark on an ascent into the mountains to take part in the harvest of yarsagumba, a rare creature, half-fungus, half-insect, whose value now exceeds that of gold. This perilous yet vital harvest represents Jamuna’s hope of funding her studies abroad, where she dreams of a better future....See more details

An intimate journey between a son and his father aboard a fishing boat bound for Sole Bank. Using home videos recorded in the 1980s and 1990s, the director embarks not only on a physical voyage but also an emotional and sensory one, seeking to understand seafaring life, the inheritance of the trade, and the silences that dwell between them....See more details

Paul is in the middle of shooting his latest feature film and is having an affair with an actress cast in a supporting role. The director decides to shoot a nude scene with her, but changes his mind the next morning. Gradually, the filmmaker’s life and the film itself begin to merge.

Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.

Using the same handycam his grandfather once used to film him as a child, the filmmaker turns the camera back on his grandfather, the irreverent owner of a small roadside motel on the Gulf of Mexico. While one camera observes his daily life, another recreates his peculiar stories through staged scenes inspired by different cinematic genres....See more details

Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world. For decades this grey gold, indispensable to the manufacture of almost all contemporary technological devices, has been the cause of conflicts and a bitter exploitation....See more details

Maria wanders through a seaside town for the burial of her enigmatic neighbor Isabela. As the nights grow longer, she adopts Isabela’s dogs, meets her son, and encounters a woodcutter who is afraid of sleep.

Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world. For decades this grey gold, indispensable to the manufacture of almost all contemporary technological devices, has been the cause of conflicts and a bitter exploitation....See more details

After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, the filmmaker reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children and how healing and change are possible.

Still haunted by a personal tragedy, Ticu Ionescu decides to resume his work as a physicist. When he receives the results of the latest particle collision experiment, he notices that part of the impact energy is missing. Could this prove the existence of dimensions beyond known reality? The hero is ready to do anything to verify this theory...