The Z Word

Far from the usual way of addressing trans and intersex issues, L'ordre des mots takles this community's questions on sexual identity head on.

Ana is Manuela's teacher. Together, they will discover if romance exists or is only an invention.

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using parts of her prose and poetry always with first-person testimonies; from Porto to Lisbon, from Granja to Lagos, from the Atlantic Sea to the Mediterranean, from Greece to 25 April: the passions and disappointments of a life and work dedicated to the search for the real, freedom and justice.

The story of Cross Words is based on a news item, which quickly becomes a pretext for a sensitive, sensual portrait of a generation represented by two main characters, Pierre and Mila, and a group of thirty-somethings. They’re journalists, teachers, carpenters and artists, between Paris, Marseille and Brussels. Valero portrays fragments of everyday life, interweaving them with impressionistic urban and bucolic slivers.

An experimental short film by Yoram Gross.

An engaged couple having a lunch in a cafeteria, and we follow their conversation as they go into minute detail about what needs to be organized for the upcoming wedding. This is a glimpse into the life of a modern young people struggling with their parents’ cultural legacy.

Two little creatures discuss possible travel plans to Hong Kong. As they talk to each other, their thoughts are animated above their heads.

A filmic dialogue between exiled Syrian writer Samar Yazbek and the filmmaker that tries to ask vital questions about cinema and literature in the face of war, death and violence. Focusing on the relation between the spoken word, the literary text and the act of listening, the film explores the writer’s work with her own tools: words. As the war intensifies, the dilemma increases: to speak or not to speak becomes a central question in the film. But if the filmed conversations are interrupted, who will tell the story of the voiceless? A pertinent poetic and political testimony of our troubled times.

Thomas is a mid-aged man who is working for an insurance company. His bachelor life is caught in an endless cycle of a trist routine - until one day a young girl appears at his door.

After the documentary movie Muktir Gaan (1995), few teenagers visiting in some independence war 71' devastated villages in search of some real scary stories of the days of the war.

Alex tells the children in his class what he wants to be when he grows up; after he uses an "adult word", his teacher tries to make the children understand it revealing a devastating past experience.

How do you feel when menstruation is regarded as ‘dirty’? Through various personal experiences of menstruation, the film explores how prejudice and stereotypes impact on the way women deal with their menstrual cycles and bodies.

our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane.

A documentary about Håkan Petterson, a poet with cerebral palsy, without the ability to talk, eat or move by himself.

An old man weeds the space surrounding a wall and forbids to urinate there. He is far from imagining that, more than using it as a urinal, passers-by will give to his wall an entirely different use.

In the aftermath of a death, a home is cleaned out; the accumulation of a life is removed in bags and recycle bins. But what becomes of the collection of books? Laura Rantanen’s resoundingly moving and wistful documentary reflects on the end of life, what lingers behind, and the moments when a book breaks through the monotony to open the world around us.

A quiet domesticated policeman and his happy-go-lucky colleague are investigating a routine suicide. The policeman breaks the law and his own moral principles after he has heard a familiar voice from a victim’s cellphone.

A message in a whirling newspaper seems to reunite a man and a woman

The story of a classic rebetiko night in the port of Piraeus.