In the relentless heat of the gruelling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off. Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘the Cicada Man’. Who is that strange man and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas? More important, what does he do with them? As the heat starts to get to our heroine, and her sanity depletes, real life and delusion begin to mix. Her darkest nightmares seep into our world and she fears the Cicada Man has planted his swarm of insects inside her. She must get them out – at all costs. Thus begins her downward spiral into extreme paranoia and self-mutilation. She just needs to make it through the summer.

The Sound of Change was a benefit concert held at Twickenham Stadium in London, England, as part of the Chime for Change initiative, founded by Beyoncé with the help of actress Salma Hayek and Gucci creative director Frida Giannini. The concert features live performances by Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding and others.

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking, talking or simply looking at things. That is what the protagonists of this film do. However, inside this mystery of life, we don’t know who they are or what they do. Teddy Williams builds yet again a dense and fantasmatic universe where breezes rhyme with vacancies and to the verb to be has its full double meaning. (M. V.)

An ingenious performance play and docu-fiction about a group of artists in the near future facing the end of the world to prevent the apocalypse.

The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the airwaves by turning it into crystals. A group of Biker street kids rebels against this tyranny.

Directed by journalist Ricardo Alexandre, the documentary tells the story of the Napalm nightclub, responsible for the new wave and post-punk generation in Sao Paulo. Mixing live shows, cutting-edge DJing and videos in its "modern" internal television system, the venue quickly became a meeting point for young people who shaped the grayer side of Brazilian rock in the 80s.

'Le Son des Pinces' is set in Marie's apartment where she has prepared a lobster dinner for date night. This absurd short film follows the intertwined lives of an alluring woman, a beguiled man, and a lobster. This short film uses tropes of the Greek weird wave and the Surrealistic movements from 1930s while creating a piss-take on the power dynamics between a modern woman and man.

A distant love better off forgotten, abstracted through images spread across four formats (miniDV, Super 8, 16mm, iPhone) shot over a three year period.

Third in the River series, the Danube. The works of this trilogy feature stories about rivers linking three themes: rivers, sound, and human encounters.

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The last two decades have seen a striking decline in the quality of sound and listening experience. Compressed music, MP3s and streaming, have diminished the quality and flattened the emotion. Marketing gimmicks and convenience now take the place of excellence. The Distortion of Sound is an eye-opening exposé of the current state of sound starring Linkin Park, Slash, Quincy Jones and more. This documentary will open your ears and inspire you to reach for richer, more soul-stirring musical experiences.

"The Sound of The Rebab," the oldest musical instrument, gains cultural dimensions through its connection to the desert. Director Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi sheds light on it in the film "The Sound of Rababa."

This profile of legendary funk/R&B icon Rick James captures the peaks and valleys of his storied career to reveal a complicated and rebellious soul, driven to share his talent with the world.

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During a sleepless night, Roman recalls an unresolved wound and reconnects with an old passion.