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Nunkui, the female spirit of the garden. Nunkui, the name of a Shuar girl in a lush world of plants, animals, spirits and an extended family. Between premonitory dreams and mining conflicts in the Amazonian Cóndor mountain range, Nunkui searches for her place in the world, influenced by her grandfather Yaunchu, an old Shuar leader.
After a night out, a college student’s curiosity leads him into a bizarre encounter with a mysterious “wizard” who accidentally transforms him into a puppet. Forced into an absurd and surreal journey, he meets other puppets and seeks out a powerful figure who may hold the key to reversing the curse. Along the way, he’s confronted with questions about identity, self-awareness, and what it truly means to be human.
In the intimacy of their rooms, Claude-Emmanuelle, Régina, and Nicole apply makeup in front of mirrors. Their precise, repetitive gestures become rituals of transformation and self-affirmation. Fragments of past, secret thoughts, and desires emerge through their voices. Interwoven with images of the city, the film links private experiences to the universal, exploring destinies that brush against each other without ever crossing paths.
The carefree lifestyle vacation of Désirée, her white lover Elias and her gay friend Sal turns into a journey of self-discovery in the desert. Désirée’s mother has cut her off and gets them thrown out of the vacation home with pool. In the barren landscape of Fuerteventura, the friends move around as if on an empty field in search of meaning. They desire each other, challenge each other, slip into new roles. A game with the overarching triangle of class, race and gender.
An old man living alone in the building, no matter how much someone offers, he refuses to sell.
For over 50 years, Tim Birkhead has dedicated his life to studying a resilient bird colony on the brink of survival. Once nearly wiped out, the birds have fought their way back - but new threats now loom on the horizon. As Tim grapples with their uncertain future, he also faces a deeper question: what will become of his life’s work?
A hopeful girl bakes a cake with her best friend, realizing that the tender feeling she felt in the way he says her name was one-sided.
After failing her studies abroad, Minsu returns to Korea after ten years to sell her family house.
A one-shot short film centered around a miscommunication at the Tacky Cat Cafe
Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025 and began his major immigration crackdown, he held a White House sit-down with a popular Latin American leader who had once called himself the world's coolest dictator. As the documentary explores, Bukele opened the doors of the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to planeloads of mostly Venezuelan U.S. deportees that the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Later reporting would reveal that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations.
Suzanne hides her daughter’s shocking secret to protect their family, but when their charismatic Pastor takes a disturbing interest in the baby, their lies ignite a chilling battle between faith, control, and truth.
A short adaptation of the scene from the novel
Klaus Fried was a teenager when his father Erich Fried, the writer, died. He had to share him with the entire world public. The son embarks on a search, meets family members, friends and companions and, together with Julia Albrecht, tries to piece together a picture of his father from the memories of these people. When he meets Astrid Proll, co-founder of the RAF, the hard struggle for answers makes it clear how similar father and son are.
When two cat owners decide to put up pet cameras in their new home while they’re away on a trip, they soon make a terrifying discovery as to why their cat has been acting so strange.
Laura’s story unfolds in Miguelete, Colonia, Montevideo, and Spain, interwoven with memories of her sister and niece. A sex worker, she contracted HIV and tuberculosis and died in 2003. The documentary explores taboos, family ties, and the dilemma of revealing her illness.
Lina, a painter from Seville haunted by a crippling creative block, lives under the looming shadow of her late father, Carlos — a failed and forgotten novelist. When a mysterious muse emerges from her dreams, fragments of her broken family past begin to align, unveiling a world where art and fantasy blur into one.
Adam is in the midst of a breakup with his girlfriend Layla when his phone dies and car breaks down. Now he must run to her to plea for a second chance.
This is a reboot performance that adds new production to the first "Musical Nintama Rantarou" performed in 2010. Will the 6th graders, who face a tough battle, be able to safely help Rantarou and his friends? Unless!?
