Square the Circle / 2023

How does it feel to be a procrastinating perfectionist who is afraid of the dark, while living in a place where darkness consumes half the year? What is space anxiety and its relation to fear of infinity? All this and more is revealed in Hanna Hovitie's visually innovative comedy, framed as a circle as opposed to the usual filmic square. A love letter to all the people who, like the author, feel they don't belong.

In the Circle / 2022

Monika organizes her first workshop in the women's circle, but the harder she tries, the worse everything goes for her.

The Seventh Circle / 2009

The Magic Circle / 1970

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s.

The Perfect Circle / 2020

Documentary examines the production history, style, and lasting appeal of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, as well as the evolution of the French crime thriller during the Melville era

Break the Circle / 2021

A documentary that tells the stories of women, each of whom changes their lives based on the cycle of violence. But these changes are a long and difficult process of self-working. From calling the police, living in a shelter to returning to themselves, women dare to go this way for themselves and their children.

The Drawn Circle / 1988

Hypnotist and magician David Cheishvili, trying to rescue his son from a petty criminal history, makes some concession to the investigator and helps to get the coveted signature in the testimony of a certain defendant. The hypnotist's abilities are put into use. The trick succeeds and the victim signs under the testimony, but the rules of the game are violated by the investigator himself.

Beyond the Circle / 2009

A political fable in which a village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.

Breaking the Circles / 2012

Milena, a successful photographer from Macedonia decides to visit Prague and surprise her secret lover. Instead of a warm welcome, Milena faces the emptiness of the city. Most of the time she is alone thinking of their relationship and waiting for her mystique lover to appear. The city slowly drives her into a paranoid journey in which she is forced to face her greatest wishes, desires and fears. Her life is spinning in circles. Alone and desperate, she decides to break that circle.

Il Cerchio Perfetto / 2013

Documentario su un hospice italiano di Claudia Tosi

Weekend Stories: The Last Circle / 1998

An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immediately clashes with his ex-wife, who stayed behind when he defected.

Il circolo nero / 1913

The Black Circle is a Italian film from the Celio Film company.

The Circle of Death / 1922

This anti-communist propaganda film discusses the revolutionary curse of communism in the Soviet-Union shortly before and after the fall of czardom in Russia, told from the point of view of Belarusians in exile. Anti-communist copy in color which has been discovered, restored and printed by the Royal Belgian Filmarchive.

Lake Lubāns: Squaring the Circle / 2001

Every spring the surroundings of the Lake Lubāns, the largest lake in Latvia, are in flood. The efforts to prevent the floods have been going on since the middle of the 19th century. Today the lake, encircled by dikes, no longer threatens the surrounding homesteads but the seeming safety has been bought for a very high price – destruction of the natural balance. Can the damage be remedied? Two Latvians will travel to the wetlands of Japan in search for a possible solution.

The Circle of Memory / 1987

Margarita Begolli, the portagonist of the film, returns to Albania after 25 years with her memory lost.

The Circle of Life / 2007

Like most local young women, Xiaohua met Chunling, a young man from another village, through a matchmaker and chose a good day to get married. After marriage, they live with Chunling's parents. The young couple fall in love with each other and give birth to a baby boy. According to the requirements of the national family planning policy, first-born males in rural areas cannot have further children. But farmers have their own ideas. A family should not have only boys, but also girls. If there are no boys, they will do everything possible to have boys to continue the family line. Therefore, the township government sends a family planning team. At the risk of being fined, Xiao Hua becomes pregnant again. When she’s in labor, Chunling finds a midwife. They successfully give birth to a baby girl. To avoid being arrested, Chunling takes initiative to pay a 3,000 fine. The couple leave their children with family and go to work in Beijing. (Shot from 1996-2007)

The Circle of Fires / 1979

Much of Juan Downey’s pioneering video work critiques the purported objectivity of ethnographic observation and documentation. To produce The Circle of Fires, the artist lived with his wife and stepdaughter among the Yanomami indigenous group in the Venezuelan Amazon for seven months; inviting the Yanomami to both make and watch videos of themselves, Downey inverted the conventional roles of observer and observed. Likely seeing themselves in this medium for the first time, the subjects are presented with a new vision of themselves through the screen’s alternate reality.

Three Circles with(in) the Whale / 2022

How much do we sense, speculate, and respond to the signs conveyed by the life and death of other beings? How can we open up our clandestine relationship with them? Rather than blur or abolish boundaries, can we sustain the tension that animates such alterity and not neutralize that relationship? In search of answers, whale-time and human-time dive into small circles where emptiness and fullness meet.

Al-Halqa - In the Storytellers Circle / 2010

On a journey around Morocco Abderahim teaches his son Zoheir the art of storytelling. Zoheir has to face his fear of performing in front of the audience and experiences that the first story to learn is your own.

Limits of the Circle / 2005

Single-take experimental short.