Between segregation and cosmic revelation, The Magic City traces the birth of Sun Ra, where a city becomes myth and a man, a galaxy. On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama, nicknamed ‘The Magic City’ — an industrial southern city marked by segregation. After leaving the city at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific…

An ecological futuristic fable where human survival plays out inside a movie theater. In Brussels, the last habitable city of the planet, beer yeast spreads everywhere—even onto the film reel. Inside the cinema, people panic, philosophize and try to invent survival strategies. Absurd sci-fi and playful cinematic experiments turn this film into a living organism. An unapologetic musical about…

Cult film of the Barcelona movida about the Andalusian painter Ocaña, the queer “pariah” of the Franco era. Portrait of José Pérez Ocaña (1947-1983), painter, sculptor, singer, actor and performer from Andalusia, who during the Transition roamed the Ramblas of Barcelona dressed as a queer sevillana. The film offers an immersion in the creative universe of this countercultural icon, bringing a…

The muses break their silence — and what they have to say won’t please everyone. In La Révolution des Muses, Clío, a sex worker and artist’s model, reclaims art history from the perspective of women exploited by Picasso, Baudelaire, Borghese… Blending queer cabaret, kitsch rituals and political performance, the film shatters taboos around desire, art and power, placing the muses…