Programme Alcine51

Tom is a young trader at a London bank, but his recent results have put him in the hot seat. When the first plane hits the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th, 2001, Tom is convinced it is a terrorist attack, not an accident. He then jumps into the biggest trade of his life...

In the beginning was the letter G, as the ancient Kabbalists say. Only this made the birth of God possible, and therefore, the creation of the universe. But what happens if the universe wants to grow bigger and bigger, enslaved quite literally by by megalomania? Will the secret be revealed today?

Malky, a struggling actor, has agreed to help Tom, a director he used to know, with some lighting tests for his new project. He thinks that it’ll be a good opportunity to show the director what he’s capable of, but comes to suspect that maybe he’s just being exploited...

Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery, and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head was becoming quite beautiful.

Tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can't feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.

Anna remembers stories from her childhood that were told to her so often that they became self-descriptions. Anna as a child in ballet class, Anna with a family friend in Venice, Anna as a teenager at the disco. These memories are part of an identity that is defined by the fat body, by the implanted thought of being wrong.

"The Unicorn in Snowpants Suddenly Ran Off" explores the clash between blind children's fantasy worlds and the reality they live in. The film introduces us to three confident children, for whom blindness is a different kind of normal. Unicorns, call centers and flying grandfathers play a role.

In 1932, the media mogul and German nationalist Alfred Hugenberg coined the phrase "Social is what creates work". By the end of the 1990s, the old enemy image of the "work-shy" and "asocial" was again being used conspicuously often on private television: Did afternoon talk shows create the Agenda 2010?

The cranky teacher Helen and Mia, stigmatised as a problem pupil, hate the roles assigned to them by the school system. When a supposedly harmless conflict escalates, the search for physical immediacy begins in an increasingly alienated and virtual world.

Carla is pregnant and naked, just like the snapshots showing the poses adopted by her mother while pregnant with Carla herself. The sunlight slips in through the windows. We see flashes in Super-8 of mothers and fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers; smiling, sewing, reciting poems. We then see a young girl growing up from the 60s until today, passing through the 80s, crossing the thresholds of womanhood and history, until she meets the pregnant Carla beside the blue sky of the Catalan coast.

During a fancy New Year's Eve party, two dancers will try to mock the upper class audience by changing the song of their performance.

Helena and Ivan are about to embark on a new chapter in their lives. They are leaving the megacity of Barcelona and moving to rural Catalonia to take over a cork oak plantation. Their cork business is not only to provide them with a new livelihood, but it is also to be run fairly and sustainably. With all their ideals, Helena and Ivan come up against a harsh reality: City, country, desire, reality and gender roles all collide. And the two are soon heading for a crisis that will not only test their joint project, but also their entire relationship. 

Canned pork. Dolls. Boleros. and plastic. Disparate and conjoined elements at the same time in the mind of a murderer, Bill. Dr. Basil, his psychiatrist, will try, in his last session, to string together all these elements to understand the motivations that have led Bill to the murder.

Duffy, a seven years old child, decides to get even with his parents during the diner. A myth which became a complex is analysed with black humor.

Wake up dazed, disoriented in a gloomy room. Strapped to a stretcher, he tries to free himself and call for help. His anxiety is increasing, the real terror comes when he discovers his captors... sometimes things are not what they seem.

Jose Antonio is about to enjoy a pleasant afternoon of reading, confined to his wheelchair, in his apartment in Manhattan. But a dark and terrible force is about to turn his world upside down. And it is that no one can escape the destructive power of Phonorama…

An assault to the horror genre and the conceited traditional narrative starring Whitney Palmer.

1982. Two low-ranking USSR officers are sent to occupied Estonia on a mission to track down a Captain who apparently went insane after discovering a mysterious radio signal coming from the middle of nowhere.

In the director's room in Berlin, a part of Belarusian reality is being created – a cinematic guide through the systematic suppression of protests which took place in August 2020.

Tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can't feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.

Is an experimental video essay about the unique interspecies relationship between humans and the honey bee (apis mellifera). The artist spent three years as a beekeeper, documenting her experiences in a series of humorous, poetic, and contemplative dialogues leaving space for not-knowing

Hotel Royal is a fragmented and incomplete mosaic of contemporary societies. It could be dubbed a film about the horrors of the soul, about voyeurs or simply about misfits.

Mr K works for « Pastagel », a miraculous product which keeps your hair perfectly smooth and shiny all day long. Mr K tries to be neat, but his hair is rebellious and doesn’t stay in place, perhaps just like him?

The accountant has fallen asleep on her desk. The waiter sleeps behind the cash register. The guard is dreaming, slumbering on his chair outside the bank. "Powernapper’s Paradise" explores life and the people in the Philippines, where it seems okay to sleep at work.

Donovan, a young bodyguard, is mandated to protect a minister’s wife during her holidays in a seaside estate, while violent riots are taking place in the same area. In that luxury environment, Donovan tastes a lifestyle he never experienced before…

It's New Year's Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.

An ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will be exposed! A short action film about the joint adventure of indie filmmaking - with all the special effects.

A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, "Sierra" pulls us into the surreal car racing world.

At a time when it is forbidden to get together to bury our dead, a little girl separated by an ocean from her grandfather invents a way to say goodbye to him.

A boy goes with his family to spend Sunday at Madrid's Casa de Campo, on the same day that his team, Atlético de Madrid, has the chance to become champions of the league.

A whistle. The stands of the stadium get loud. The players protest angrily. The presenters follow the action on the field. In the middle of it, the referee. The whole stadium watches him. Now he has to decide and direct the energy of an entire stadium.

Two friends meet at the home of one of them to watch the match of their favourite team.

Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.

Lucas is ten years old and wears a new goalkeeper uniform. He waits for his opportunity on the bench. The main thing is to take part in the game.

In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.