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The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a feature documentary rooted in the Los Angeles sex worker community. The film centers six parents working in the sex industry, including filmmaker Kimberly Ye, as they reflect on the overlapping demands of erotic labor, caregiving, secrecy, survival, and mutual support. Through intimate interviews, small group conversations, observational material, and animated reenactments, the project examines how parents in stigmatized and criminalized lines of work create family life on their own terms.
Around Lake Como, a voyage interrupted by a series of brief, successive stops, as fleeting as musical phrases. Someone enters and leaves a telephone booth. Water and the lines that contain it.
On the morning of Kenya's 1982 coup attempt, a trusted radio broadcaster is forced at gunpoint to announce the fall of his own government only to become the voice that helps restore it, as truth and power collide over the airwaves.
Brasília, 1986. Helena has barely settled in with her family in Brazil's futuristic capital when her husband leaves on a business trip. Stranded in an unfamiliar city, she questions her choices, feeling frustrated and lost. Her teenage son rebels and discovers his first love; her seven-year-old finds magic in unlikely friendships and unseen possibilities. In a democracy less than a year old, everyone lives in limbo—trapped between what was and what could be.
A school term, a pair of forgotten joggers, a line from Macbeth - in the ordinary spaces of uniformed days, one student starts to notice a quiet disconnect between who they are and who they're expected to be.
Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world-except for one group. International doctors breach the blockade, what they find is not just a humanitarian crisis, but a calculated dismantling of life itself.
Eight years ago, Jiale, a senior member in the gang, takes the blame for his brother and goes to prison. After his release, he wants to live peacefully in a small coastal town, away from the underworld. However, his former boss, Rong, intends to hand over the gang to him, while Huoshan, who rose to power thanks to Jiale's sacrifice, sees his return as a huge threat. As power, lies, and old grudges intertwine, Jiale has no choice but to return to the underworld. Along the way, he saves Jiehe, a girl with a music dream on the verge of despair, and she becomes a glimmer of light in his dark life. To protect the ones he cherishes and account for his past, he picks up the knife again. A thrilling gunfight breaks out in the dark alleys of the city, and he turns the tables time and again with his skills. Tearing off Huoshan's disguise, the truth from eight years ago comes to light.
Two men arrive at a silent Buddhist meditation retreat expecting stillness. In the quiet, they begin to reveal who they really are.
An nihilistic, self deprecating, egotistical young man, bumps into an old acquaintance who invites him to a gathering leading to his eventual demise.
A peculiar young man embarks on a colorful food trip across Cagayan with his equally eccentric best friend in search of comfort through familiar flavors, only to discover that what he truly misses is not the food itself, but the memories of home, struggle, and love attached to it.
7th EVENT WORLD TOUR THE STAGE is a live event for Umamusume: Pretty Derby. This is the first live event in the franchise's history to have performances held outside of Japan.
In 1860s London, three Greek female artists attend a gallery opening, seeking to impress the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Something strange is happening. A man by the side of the road encounters a woman and decides to ask her for a ride.
(X: @hm0z0) In this standalone special of Ma3 Kamel E7teyaty, rapper Ziad Zaza joins the host for a candid conversation about friendship, childhood memories, and the moments that shaped their lives. Blending humor with honest storytelling, the episode explores youthful experiences, personal growth, and unforgettable life stories.
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.
On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay. Her mother, Nia, went into exile right after she was born and Nana grows up in the family of her father. One day, the family learns that Nia is ill. Nana begins to develop high fevers and is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment. There she encounters a world steeped in magical realism, between dreams and reality. Later, when Nana is a teenager, her mother Nia finally returns to the island.
