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Screenshots of the reality of an islander who enjoys having at the expense of being — like a twist of fate, as if trapped in a hamster wheel, where our slightest desire has to be satisfied now, perhaps in the hope of compensating for all the days without. Welcome to “the Tropics”! Where the paradoxes of neocolonial daily life are at work in a suffocating economic and health context.
Follows three women, a dance competition, and the ultimate test of friendship vs popularity.
A zombie seeks therapy after realising he's addicted to eating brains.
When Tess starts working in her aunt and uncle's restaurant, she encounters mysterious monsters and visions that send her down a dark, twisty path of moral reckoning.
Thrown into a shapeless prison, the Molder Man must face the music.
Freshly elected, President Paul Archambault must face an unprecedented crisis: his Russian counterpart, the target of an attack, brandishes a nuclear ultimatum threatening an ally of France. Faced with the risk of military escalation, the president gathers his staff in the bunker of the Elysée. In the secrecy of the command post Jupiter, Paul will have to make a dizzying decision.
In a tall, abandoned, and oppressive house, Luz pursues Mira, her childhood friend who takes refuge in the darkness, terrified of being seen. Amidst labyrinths of books and interwoven memories, their reunion clashes with reality. Argentine psychological and surreal horror about destructive love and the cost of vulnerability in fiction.
In a deeply religious Italian town, an arranged marriage seals a teenager's fate.
A giant girl lives in a wild rural environment. When the modern world enters this isolated Russian Old Believer milieu, the girl is taken away and dragged into the world of professional sports. The aim does not differ much from that of a circus in the Middle Ages – to entertain audiences and exploit the limits of people’s mental and physical abilities. But the girl proves to have unbelievable willpower and athletic talent. She is able to adapt and triumph in this new world. This is the story of the famous basketball player Ulyana Semyonova.
Loosely based on the filmmaker’s own experiences, White Musk explores the tension that arises when a child is forced to parent their own parent. When her mother, Suraya, falls gravely ill, 19-year-old Hiba becomes her primary caregiver, while her older brother Hisham moves through the household largely unburdened. We watch Hiba and Suraya love each other and wound each other in equal measure, locked in a push and pull that neither knows how to break. As Suraya’s condition worsens, Hiba must navigate what it means to care for someone who cannot easily receive care, and what it costs her to keep showing up anyway.
A man on a boat trip is attacked by pirates and left adrift at sea until a woman rescues him, triggering a mysterious journey to discover the true power of love.
Mortal Lace depicts existence as a conscious hallucination created by our own experience of life. This is explored through the context of a week where each day progress closer to absolute reality.
The story follows Danielle Stanbreaker, a paranormal consultant investigating a strange supernatural occurrence at a local Bed and Breakfast that ultimately ends up being real.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
