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#1 chud, Alan Shlump, attempts to turn his life around by ascending.
A young man processes the aftermath of the relationship between him and an older man.
In this ode to Maya Deren, a mirror man attempts to assimilate into the nature surrounding him
After encountering two eccentric party girls, a college freshman stumbles through a night filled with horror.
The Original Thought is a short film about two students, Vig and Logan, who are trying to make a film for a competition based on the theme Old vs. New. Vig wants the movie to be good, but instead of trusting his own ideas, he keeps asking A.I. what to do. He uses it to choose locations, plan scenes, and make the film feel meaningful. Logan gets frustrated because the movie looks clean, but it does not feel real. As they move through different locations, Vig starts to understand the problem. The A.I. gave him a plan, but it did not know why the locations mattered. He realizes that a good movie needs more than smart answers. It needs human thought, purpose, and meaning. By the end, Vig turns away from the phone and chooses to rewrite the film himself. He realizes he can create something more honest than A.I. because the idea has to come from him. The film shows that new tools like A.I. can help, but they cannot replace original human thinking.
A cross-generational oral history of Cape Town, told through the underground hip-hop scene that turned rhythm, resistance and mentorship into a living education system.
Through the ritual of saying sorry, a bold journey explores how apologies redefine history and what happens to us as witnesses to the act of atonement.
In the film, the photo lab serves as a space of transformation and control. It's where slides belonging to my grandfather, an anesthesiologist, are printed. The film development and analog printing processes are juxtaposed with the operating table and hospital corridors: a sense of sterility and technological advancement, a symbiosis between medical practice and a hobby no less demanding of precise procedures.
An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.
New technology forces an alcoholic to reckon with his past.
As a single mother, Irena has to divide her time between caring for her family and working a fulltime job, however, luckily, her coworkers and other women in her life that share her struggles try their best to help her out in this monotonous routine.
When TikTok faces a nationwide ban, three influencers fight for their livelihoods, their voices, and the First Amendment. As their efforts advance to the Supreme Court, questions swirl around the stakes, power, and control of the future of social media.
50 years after “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” electrified audiences, a drag theater company in the once-booming mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, stages a shadow cast of the cult classic. Led by the charismatic 25-year-old performer Kenny Starling, the determined troupe spotlights the ongoing fight for queer visibility and acceptance in their community.
As renowned science journalist Kurt Langbein is diagnosed with ‘terminal cancer’, a professional topic becomes an existential question: how do we die – and what does it actually mean to die? In his deeply personal documentary film, Langbein embarks on a journey to the boundary between life and death.
Dual-screen movie created by two artists where images come into sync and drift apart.
