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For generations, the Samburu people and their livestock have had a deep connection with water, depending on the rains for their survival. The Land Smiles Back is the story of the Samburu community in Westgate Conservancy, who made the land “smile” again by returning to ancient hydrotechnology.
When a man falls into temptation and joins a robbery that goes terribly wrong, he descends into paranoia and tries to get rid of the money he believes is cursed.
An aloof young man escapes to the wilds of Yosemite in the throes of a depressive episode. His only companion is a camera.
Lidia goes with her mother, Gina, to the beach house where they used to vacation during her childhood. What should have been an opportunity to relax by the sea, begins to reveal unresolved issues in their relationship.
A group of friends travel to Maine to make a low-budget horror film, only to discover the behind-the-scenes chaos is far more terrifying.
A gay Korean-Filipino dancer and his Korean aunt, bound by their patriarch’s dementia, clash over a missing heirloom dagger as they each struggle for acceptance – he in a foreign land; she, within a tradition that denies her.
A young man who fears vulnerability in sharing details about his experience in living with Type 1 Diabetes tries to form a connection with one of his friends who also shares in the disability.
In the transforming streets of East Austin, Xavier watches his community, friendships, and sense of home disappear. As the city evolves around him, Airport BLVD becomes a soulful, romantic, and bittersweet love letter to a city old and new.
Rafael, filled with anxiety, heads to a secluded spot in the forest, where he encounters a group of masked men. There, he hands over the murder weapon and Amalia's braid as evidence. In exchange, the leader, a man in a clown mask, gives him a suitcase of drugs and a new gun—a mission Rafael cannot bear to undertake. When he refuses, the clown threatens him that if he does not obey, his family will pay the price. The mental burden becomes unbearable. Later, the masked men discuss the events of the day, unaware that Rafael, unable to bear it any longer, has ended his life.
A magical-realist drama follows a young British-Ugandan girl whose classroom show-and-tell unlocks a dreamlike journey into her heritage.
A man recounts a dream to his doctor where he pursues a woman who feels hauntingly familiar.
Determined to make her own money, Azza teaches other women as a freelance driving instructor. Behind the wheel of her big black Toyota, she feels safe, proud – and free. She speeds down the country’s roads and highways. From the city to the endless desert, nothing can stop her.
the secend mission of the group who hacks and steal from rich people for money
Searching for answers about her Algerian family's ties to both sides of the Independence war, a filmmaker uncovers a tangle of contradicting buried histories.
Can architecture respond to the challenges of the modern world? From deserts to river deltas, from jungles to city streets, the series takes us to Chile, New Orleans, Thailand, and Vienna, where architects are redefining the rules of design.
A summer day. In the middle of a rollerblading ride, you stop by a building long out of use. You don’t come there to swim - there’s no water in the pool. You bring your friend. Besides, neither of you can swim. But what if the pool were filled with imagined water?
