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After uncovering a buried box containing a VHS tape and a mysterious book of witchcraft at the gravesite of Invoking Yell lead singer Andrea Fernandez, a trio of metalheads unwittingly unleash a dark force. What begins as a documentary about Andrea's disappearance and the 1998 murders of her ill-fated bandmates quickly spirals into a waking nightmare-where the past doesn't just haunt those connected to it... it demands a sacrifice.
Phil and Barney, two not-so-smart henchmen of a Mafia organization, stumble across a mysterious box full of money while burying a corpse in the woods. Their night turns to chaos when they decide to spend lavishly this unexpected fortune.
A married couple welcomes young Genaro into their home through adoption. Upon his arrival, he meets his new siblings, Nuria and Samuel. But it doesn't take long for Genaro to sense that something is deeply wrong within the household. The family seems trapped under a suffocating veil of fear and despair, haunted by an unseen force. As Nuria, a troubled teenager, begins to uncover the terrifying secrets hidden within her family, she forms a powerful bond with Genaro. Together, they must face an evil presence that grows stronger each day, unleashing a chain of sinister and unsettling events.
German filmmaker Susanne, married to a Korean man named Kim Jeong Rae, turns the camera toward her own intercultural marriage and family with both humor and tenderness. Blending vérité and performance, the film dives into the beautiful mess of love, identity, and cultural collision. Becoming Kim asks: How do we stay true to ourselves—while learning to love another?
A caged lion festers in anger and silence until an unlikely friend comes along to help him tell his story. Poignant and timely, the lion’s story offers a mirror into human nature.
When a struggling actor, estranged for years from his family, Travis Hoffman, comes back home, he finds he's going to have to deal with more than, merely, a little familial drama.
In a dystopian world of concrete blocks and digital illusions, citizens live between work and simulated "peace." Citizen 2001X13 begins to question the system, uncovering erased memories through talks with a figure from his subconscious
In 1968, a smooth-talking hustler, Paul Ferguson, details the fateful night he and his younger brother murdered closeted silent film star, Ramon Novarro.
A slice-of-life exploration of the weird and wonderful residents of a small town in North Florida and what they believe in.
Built from real voicemails left by strangers, Call Collecting is a hauntingly beautiful visual poem. By pairing intimate audio with evocative vertical cinematography, this piece explores the invisible threads that connect us all in a digital age.
An atheistic, musical/cinematic rendition of the beginning of the Bible through the lens of a vengeful and bloodthirsty Eve.
In the bad dreams of a guy with social anxiety and ornithophobia...
Women of the Revolution is a film that celebrates the multitude of revolutionary women: the mothers of our democracy. Through the voice, gaze, silence, and actions of each of these women, we learn about the richness of their experiences, which together give us a legacy of trust, justice, perseverance, respect, and freedom. These are women who defeated fascism, colonialism, and social inequalities in Portugal and the occupied African territories and transformed the world around them.
This show is a vibrant tribute to the cult filmmaker Sergei Parajanov. Blending hip-hop, contemporary dance and Armenian traditions, the stage becomes a veritable living tableau where electronic music and traditional instruments, theatre and cinema intertwine to bring to life the baroque and poetic world of the film Sayat-Nova (The Colour of Pomegranates).
A music film based on the live sound of the performance La plante dansante de désastres. Filmed in Buan with Park Syeyoung, it creates a unique mise-en-scène. Inspired by the korean buddhist ritual "Yeongsanjae", the gayageum performance dialogues with Han Byung-Chul's Saving Beauty, offering a festival of grass dancing amidst disaster.
A reclusive author suffering from alcoholism embraces her recovery and finally faces a past that has haunted her since her youth.
As the Year of Gengzi arrives, drastic changes unfold one after another...Within the legacy of the Manchu banners, sheltered by their ancestors, they indulge day after day in bygone glories, helpless and resigned.At the foot of the imperial city, swept along in the torrent of history, they follow hesitantly, struggling to make choices that shape their lives.They embody the blood and tears of a nation’s past; they are the common folk immortalized in the writings of later generations.
The kids are trying to pull out a baby tooth themselves. Timid Marie doesn't want to, but she finds the pizza her sister suggested hard to resist. They try every trick they can think of, yet it's not the tooth that comes out—Marie seems a little out of sorts. Her forehead is red and swollen, and with each failed attempt her sister's schemes grow more inventive.
