Programme Alcine52

Kościerzyna, a small town in northern Poland today. Majka, 18, is convinced that she is possessed. She decides to meet Father Marek Rogala, an exorcist priest.

Mimi has always lived in Douarnenez. She works at the cinema Le Club, and tonight she has to welcome Gaspard Kermarec, a depressive director, who has come to present a depressing film in the town he left in his late teens.

An amateur filmmaker who has filmed bears for years, contacts a film school looking for someone to edit his images into a film. A student comes forward. But when she digitises his archive, she discovers that the recordings are not only of bears. A discussion ensues about the power of a gaze.

Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humans

An ethnographic exploration of the work and life realities of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labour loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

If you are bothered by intrusive thoughts, such as: How many plastic bags are optimal for packing one banana?; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Or Should I shower with my socks on? -then -that's great! “Headprickles” will give you an answer to at least one of these questions.

A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence. Based on a story by artist Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Hobbs celebrates her startling tale with paint and collage.

A young chauffeur investigates the disappearance of a client. He enlists the help of his Italian teacher, a homeless real estate agent and an artist who uses random archival photographs to illustrate his dreams. Everything seems like a clue in this slightly absurd world, but of what?

An ophthalmologist's confession gets interrupted when the priest who was attending him leaves in an emergency. On his way to his office, he is fatally run over by a car, and his immortal soul is thrown into a purgatory populated by grotesque creatures.

On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to the other. Some of the travelers wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellow travelers or contemplate the scenery. Some others chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed up time.

Three retired women travel on a bus on their way to Europe. They have just been widowed and they want to start living. They have been listening to people talking about the wonders of tourism all their lives and are dying to experience it firsthand.

Kokuruga are a series of small animation pieces that narrate in the form of a poem, haiku or story, a brief moment in the life of a girl or a boy.

Ávila (Spain), March 28, 1526. Teresa de Jesús turns eleven surrounded by her cousins. With their help, she writes a letter to her mother asking to change her name to Cristina. That way, she’ll be more like her favorite Saint: Saint Christina, The Girl Martyr.

Film essay about the rejected image. The selection of the photographs creates a tale to narrate us. What snapshots do we consider imprecise, defective? What is the history that we remove from our life tale? What do we find in those discards?

Sylvia, an American poet, is spending her honeymoon in the seaside town of Benidorm in 1956. After having an argument with her husband she goes for a walk; the sun is blazing hot and she gets sunstroke. Confused, she travels back in time to 2021.

Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom.

In the 80s, a nunnery in Navarra was home to the Arco Iris community. Nowadays the building is inhabited by cloistered monks, and the traces of that period are imperceptible. Two filmmakers approach the place, attracted by the memories of their mothers who, trying to free themselves from the aftermath of Franco's regime, visited the community.

Sushi is the story of Betu and Jaume, two men from different generations, who have yet to understand what parenthood means to them.

The Pérez family are an almost normal family, although their behaviour is somewhat dysfunctional. The couple plans to fertilize an egg she laid last night.