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Yeorum has lost her self-esteem, trapped in a cycle of failed job searches and constant comparisons to her friend Jimin. The only thing she is truly good at is doing cartwheels. Whenever feelings of inferiority begin to stir inside her, she turns to cartwheels for a small sense of comfort.
Seven guests arrive for an exclusive performance inside a remote theatre, unaware that they are the show.
Caught in a liminal space between life and death, a young woman named Zoe finds herself confronted with the events of her past as an otherworldly being questions her about humanity and morality.
This concert was professionally filmed for the Hong Kong show, as part of Andy Lau's most recent tour across 72 shows from 5th July 2024 to 10th January 2025
Rodrigo Cuevas serves as a guide in this museum of history's great gay and lesbian figures. Over the course of 90 minutes, the program approaches 16 historical figures from a queer perspective. Guests such as Bob Pop, Laura del Val, Valeria Vegas, Ángel Ruiz, María Peláe, and Ramón Martínez contribute their knowledge and viewpoints to highlight the sexual diversity—which history has hidden—of figures as diverse as Queen Christina of Sweden, Marlene Dietrich, Miguel de Molina, Chavela Vargas, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacinto Benavente, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Lili Elbe. Irony, humor, and an accessible, modern language are the defining features of an educational and original historical narrative. It is based on solid documentation and uses AI-generated images to recreate passages from the lives of these historical figures.
Andrej has a secret plan – to see no one, meet no one, only talk to his grandma and not climb high trees while being drunk. Then he unexpectedly encounters Miša, at whom he previously tried to smile 17 times while being drunk at parties. He never remembered the outcome as he was always too drunk, but not today. Today he is sober. Andrej and Miša start to talk and over the glass of Fanta find an interest in each other. The fight for their young and tender love begins.
The cinematic VR concert <&TEAM VR CONCERT : BOUNDLESS> follows the boys as they escape a mysterious, secret laboratory. After breaking out, they reunite with their fandom, LUNÉ, in the shadows of the city on a journey to rediscover who they are.
During a trip to a waterfall, a couple of women come across mystical creatures that challenge the bond they share.
During the worst gig of his life, a piano player wrestling with failure, fatherhood, and marriage has a surreal encounter that suggests he's been playing the wrong song all along.
Kingsley, Kevin, and Hailey are three ambitious eighth graders preparing for a single exam that could determine their futures. They’re competing for admission to New York City’s Specialized High Schools, elite public institutions that have produced Nobel Prize laureates, astronauts, judges, artists, and national leaders. But as the kids await their test results, a citywide battle is raging over who should attend these schools—the kids who score highest on the entrance exam or the kids who improve diversity. Featuring interviews with kids, parents, and education leaders, If You Can Make It Here places young students at the center of a high-stakes cultural conflict over the future of equity and excellence in public education.
Growing up in Cologne in the 1980s, Iris hopes to study law one day. While her father, Mustafa, wallows in failed dreams and a gambling addiction, her mother, Mimi, struggles to keep the family afloat by working as a cleaning lady and a prostitute. Even after Mimi contracts AIDS, she continues to support her daughter’s plans.
During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
When a beloved desert cantina is threatened with closure, a washed-up burlesque dancer rallies an outrageous crew of misfits, church ladies, hustlers, and dreamers for one last talent show to save their town. As chaos turns to community, a feuding mother and daughter must decide whether to hold on or finally let go.
Lady Chief introduces Nana Afoakwa Kyerewa I, the only female clan chief in her hometown Kukurantumi, Ghana — and only the second woman in her clan's centuries-old history to ever contest the role, despite a local head chief's refusal to accept her.
A child comes into contact with their queer subjectivity after their fisherman father finds a mirror in the sea.
In the wake of her estranged sister's death, Ashley finds herself caring for her niece, who she's never met before. As they grapple with their shared loss, Ashley must uncover the truth that lurks beneath her own roof, before it's too late
Sandra Hüller portrays Ingeborg Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome. Regina Schilling’s hybrid film weaves together reenactments, archival footage, and Bachmann’s own writings into a portrait that offers a refreshing new perspective on the author and positions her writings as a reference point in current debates on gender relations and power.
2046. Corporations are using repressed memories to secure sensitive data against hacking. K lives in isolation inside a sterile memory compound, subjected to daily interrogations designed to excavate and erase a single buried memory. As fragments resurface through recurring dreams of fire, panic, and a lost child, he struggles to separate genuine recollection from manufactured reconstruction. Guided deeper by a calm, invasive corporate system, K is forced to confront a tragedy tied to his sister and the guilt he has carried ever since. But as the sessions intensify, a darker truth emerges: his trauma is not being treated. It is being weaponised. His unresolved grief is a living encryption key, and the corporation is using his subconscious to breach a protected mental firewall. Nominal is a psychological sci-fi noir about memory, grief, and the commodification of consciousness, in a world where even trauma is bought and sold.
