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The Memory of Butterflies

A photo of two indigenous boys brought by force to Europe opens an investigation of the past with meditations on the filmmaker’s own family using roughly textured analogue footage. A monument for the indigenous victims o

Swimming with Butterflies

After missing bronze by 1/100th of a second at the 2016 Paralympic Games, Austin-based swimmer Lizzi Smith shares an intimate story of how changing her self-perception didn’t just bring her back to the pool: it’s bringin

Madama Butterfly

After Tosca (2019), which marked Puccini’s entry into its repertoire, the Festival celebrates the centenary of the composer’s death this year by putting on his ‘Japanese tragedy’ Madame Butterfly: the cruel story of a vu

Butter

A mysterious contraption appears in Iris’s house one stormy night. Watch what happens as Iris and her friends witness the machine lose control…

Puppet Family: The No Button!

Frederick gets a present from his Grandma!

Butter Balls

"To counteract the talkie I had done with graduate student the day before, this undergrad project has no dialogue but just a steady stream of images we dreamed up on the spot. A psychodrama that’s heavy on the beefcake,

Bread and Butter

The film captures the Palestinian workers commuting from their homes to workplaces in Israel. For work permit holders, the day starts with long hours of waiting in line, humiliating body searches with sniffer dogs, and t

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly marked a new phase in Puccini’s development, in which he enriched his musical palette with the exoticism of the Far East. The fact that his direct emotionality contains a universal dimension is clear fro

Like a butterfly

Lovely Butterfly

Fairouz Hasan, a Palestinian filmmaker, embarks on an intimate journey to the heart of her memory via the letters she exchanged with her father, who was detained for years in Israeli prisons. Through the images, we watch

The Bread and Butter Lady

For those who are familiar with the old French song, it’s no secret that in the world of the Bread and Butter Lady, her house is made of butter and her bed of boudoir biscuits. And that she marries a Mr Whippy who wears

The Butterfly Stroke

Will a trip to a beach resort spice up a man's monotonous marriage? Some nagging and a few swim lessons from a sultry and sexy instructor, definitely invigorate his passion.

Butterfly

Since many generations, some parents have been imposing their dreams on children. From then to now most of the children are suffering from it. It’s also crucial to respect children’s individuality and not impose one’s un

Butter Tea

In a small Tibetan cafe in Queens, a cup of butter tea becomes a bridge between generations.

Butterfly Story

Mi-rang and Sam-mi believe in the myth that touching a butterfly blinds her eyes. Mi-rang, who always won first place, one day sees her fellow player Sam-mi turn before her. Mi-rang finally decides to touch the butterfly

Butterflies - Messengers of God

Approximately 160.000 different species of butterflies exist on earth. Even in ancient times people were mesmerized by these graceful insects, some of which were said to be of divine origin. Though most of us do not know

Static Butterfly

When a man gets pulled into an old home video by a mysterious pair of tiny hands, he becomes trapped in a new world, forced to chase an old butterfly brooch as it flies endlessly further into a surreal world of his flick

Opéra de Paris: Madama Butterfly

Screening direct from Paris. Eleonora Buratto stars in a new performance of Robert Wilson’s refined staging of Puccini’s classic of a woman seduced and abandoned.

Hegel and the Butterfly

This brief and creative documentary is probably closest to, in the Polish film tradition, the style of Wojciech Wiszniewski. Performances by a human-butterfly became fodder here to express the dialectic of our collective