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A neurotic, alcoholic trans man struggles through navigating his social and love life.
After conquering France with his alter ego Paloma, Hugo Bardin presents a one-man show featuring seven women born of the same imagination—characters who embody their creator’s passions and neuroses. Audiences might recognize Fanny Ardant at the César Awards, the guru Lolashiva addressing her "she-wolves" during a vegan introspection retreat, or casting director Viviane Vivier hard at work.
Exploring the lives of stray cats in Athens and beyond, ACROPOLIS CATS AND OTHER WONDROUS CREATURES examines the tenderness and tragedies in human-animal relationships. It reflects on love, cruelty, compassion, and what we can learn about freedom in a rapidly changing world.
Strange sounds emit from an apartment. An isolated man decides to investigate, shortly before being evicted himself.
Thom is on yet another routine subway ride when the presence of a stranger sparks a silent, unexpected tension. Amidst glances, sounds, and fantasies, reality and imagination blur, transforming a fleeting encounter into an experience charged with desire.
A bitter, lonely man undergoes a personality-altering medical procedure in the hope that it will make him worthy of love.
Produced as either an internal studio record or for promotional purposes, this raw footage shows Cecil B. DeMille on the set of The Affairs of Anatol with cast and crew in late 1920 or early 1921. from discussions with the scripturies on narrative details and guidance to re cast on filming specific scenes, to a group photo with all participants.
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually claim their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
A rural town in Ireland swells to a population of half a million for one week during the world’s largest annual celebration of Irish music, transforming it into a major metropolis of culture, diversity and decadence.
Dirtmouths is a 6 minute horror-comedy directed by Breehn Burns and starring Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) in his first live-action role.
Waking up from a dream he can’t seem to forget, Faizan struggles to maintain the newly structured life he’s built for himself, dazed and lost in thought. And as more memories from his past continue to resurface, he soon learns that the nightmarish ones still refuse to let him go.
A woman faces her controlling partner and the tool that gives him the power upon rekindling a relationship with a lost friend.
Hunting for hope in a city ridden by immorality, young Kedar Barua is tickled into madness by ghosts of the past. Paro's love brightens his path to liberation, but a nefarious, superhuman vigilante emerges from the dark.
A random Wednesday. A routine office Zoom call. A life forced to start over.
During a day of searching in Mexico City, a mother of a missing person reflects on grief, her daughter’s absence, and the struggle to find the missing. An intimate portrait of memory, resilience, and love that endures in the face of silence.
During the course of a single night, various people cross paths in the pubs, bars, and hookah lounges of Cologne. The issues that all of Germany is talking about are put on the table: the patriarchy, the Middle East conflict, rising rents, and whether Jesus would still buy everyone drinks today. Political convictions are stiffened by alcohol, and old wounds are reopened.
A village girl, Galya, admires her older sister, Aina. Perhaps when she grows up, she dreams of living in the city with a boyfriend and dressing just as well. Until one day, her mother sends her to the city with her sister and her sister's boyfriend, as if to protect her older daughter from violence.
