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Visiting Card Based on fourteen poems by Max Jacob put to music by Henri Sauguet and Robert Caby, Carte de visite is a particularly vibrant and faithful tribute to the overlooked great poet. Michel Zumpf makes good use of cinema and directs his film just like Max Jacob changed poetry and risked his life – in a unique and unsettling harmony between the most studied seriousness and the wildest imagination.

Hee poppelepee Report of the last market day on the old Waterlooplein in Amsterdam. Traders and visitors are interviewed and van der Elsken provides the commentary to the events.

Why Does the Sea Laugh? I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache “Canti della Rivoluzione algerina”. (Aude Fourel)

No. 7 Cherry Lane Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.

An Unforgettable Grudge Set in the Edo period, the film deals with two brothers falling in love with the same girl. Sadly, only 12 minutes of footage survive.

Danses Macabres, Skeleto... Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation. The writer is Jean-Louis Schefer, and this tale encapsulates his life’s mission.

Tiger This film is a continuous take outside a tigers cage in Regents Park Zoo. During the first five minutes the camera moves independently of the tiger between two fixed points. The points were determined by the length of the tigers walk. For the last five minutes the camera follows the tiger.

Slits Catarina is a researcher in quantum physics. She studies the sound spaces hidden in the variations of light. By immersing herself in the images she distorts, Catarina discovers a new form of sound spectrum, which seems to open an access to another temporality.

From Sorrento to Amalfi A train passes through the wonderful landscapes of the Sorrento and Amalfi coasts.

Little Green Grub A cinematic dramatization of a surrealist poem about a grub & a shoe. This is for your edification & amusement.