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O AMOR DENTRO DA CÂMERA is an essay documentary that tells the story of Conceição and Orlando Senna, pioneers of Audiovisual, who live a romance of almost 60 years, crossed by the History of cinema and Latin America. Intimate and metalinguistic, portrayed in the warmth of the home and through archival materials, when telling a love story, it takes us through the cinematographic and political networks that have woven across the continent.

Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to

While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).

Hosted by Damon Fox, this documentary takes us on a grim dive into the world of the coroner and what they see in their line of work.

An experimental dance film exploring the tenuous, hidden place of non-binary and trans people in an alternate film history.

How can trans and non-binary people escape from the restrictions of media views and limitations of representations? Across three sections a genderqueer dancer comes up against forms of filmic erasure, maintaining their identity through historical and modern dance movement, until they find a way to break free.

Lights, Camera, Mega examines How the journey of women who work as actors in the televised soap opera industry in Kolkata (known as mega), India since they joined this workforce? The growth of the regional soap opera market in India, have opened avenues for young women aspiring to be actors. The documentary provides an insight into the narratives of empowerment and struggles associated with actors and demonstrates intriguing findings

A deep-dive into the Perth film industry featuring interviews with pioneers of the Perth film industry.

An experimental film exploring media's seductive allure into femininity

Tom inherits an old video camera from his father. He will discover that this camera records a parallel reality in which he falls in love with a girl he does not know. Tom will be drawn to and trapped by this unreal life on record. Will he escape the curse of the camera?

Inhabited by bodies that question love and death to the limits of madness, that are heard but not seen, and vice versa, Camera Obscura reveals a particular form of appropriation of the work of French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. From the intersection of writing, video and sound, and his usual experimentalism, Bonneville creates a film made up of ghosts and mysteriously hypnotic and sensory images.

A short horror film.

Award-winning filmmaker Sandhya Suri (I for India) skilfully weaves together archive footage to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India from 1899 to 1947. Drawn exclusively from the BFI National Archive, Around India features some of the earliest surviving film from India as well as gorgeous travelogues, intimate home movies and newsreels from British, French and Indian filmmakers. Taking in Maharajas and Viceroys, fakirs and farmhands and personalities such as Sabu and Gandhi, the film explores not only the people and places of over 70 years ago, but asks us to engage with broader themes of a shared history, shifting perspectives in the lead up to Indian independence and the ghosts of the past. Around India boasts a superb new score that fuses western and Indian music from composer and sarod player Soumik Datta.

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

An hour-long conversation with Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade conducted by Sylvia Bahiense.

An achrival documentary exploring the relationship between Nina Moretto and her mother Graziella Moretto