Quarter Century is a quiet exploration of a universal yet deeply personal question: What does it truly mean to exist?
During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).
After a brutal assault, an elderly palatero (ice cream vendor) is followed by a trickster spirit through a surreal Los Angeles where grief, magic, and resilience intertwine.
In this short documentary, show host Ciska Meister sets out to discover how lesbians flirt, what lesbians look like, and what secret codes exist within the community. Various lesbian guests share their stories about clichés, attempts to woo one another, and that tricky question: are we just friends, or is there something more? Along the way, Ciska discovers how lesbians manage to find each other in a world with no script to follow. Pussymagnet, Baby offers a humorous look at identity, love and relationships.
Based on the film Anna's Sin (1953).
In a deserted high school, a group of teenagers gathers for a mysterious choral ritual.
A nurse falls in love with her patient and secretly marries him. When treating another patient, he falls in love with her and, pretending to be in agony, asks for one last wish: to marry him, and she accepts.
Despite the close bonds among fellow defectors, Cheol-jun—a young North Korean defector—felt isolated while hiding his gay identity. Finally, he takes his first step into South Korea's vibrant gay community and forms close ties after meeting Yeong-jun at a casual gathering. Yet, a trivial misunderstanding shatters these fragile bonds.
Kneading the back of an elderly man, Evie, the new masseuse at the Russian & Turkish bathhouse, finds her mind drifting from the steam room’s promise of serenity toward an absurd vision of grief.
Christine Sinclair scored more international goals than any player in soccer history, men’s or women’s. Moving between the roar of the world stage and the quiet moments behind it, the film reveals a leader whose power lived in restraint, yet she carried Team Canada from underdogs to Olympic gold. A story of how quiet leadership can leave the loudest legacy.
Set under the southern sun of the Canary Islands, three friends find themselves in over their heads in pursuit of freedom, dreams and a man named Francisco. Maggie’s (Sofie Jo Kaufmanas) life looks perfect; she has a career, a home and a boyfriend, but inside she is slowly being suffocated by expectations and the weight of her own ambitions. With her friends Eva (Julie Rudbæk) and Stine (Katinka Lærke Petersen), she sets out on a girls’ trip to Tenerife in search of freedom and dreams. But soon, one impulsive decision sends her and her two best friends on a reckless and chaotic journey across the island in a campervan.
In a world built entirely out of paper, Adam and Eve live amid advertising, propaganda and carefully crafted ideals. When Eve comes into contact with a forbidden fruit, her sense of reality slowly starts to shift. What follows is a surreal search for the line between illusion and truth, poetically questioning media, consumption and beauty standards.
Pinball is a phenomenon loved all over the world. Follow the “silver ball” from the 1600’s to the resurgence today with never-before-seen footage of rare games, rock stars, celebrities, past and present gaming legends, and more!
Through exclusive archival footage and never before seen home video, this documentary aims to explore the real face of Andriy Viktorovych Kuzmenko (Kuzma Skryabin), the father of the contemporary Ukrainian rock and roll scene.
In a fictitious dynasty inspired by ancient China, Princess Ruo Hua longs for a life beyond the rigid expectations of royalty. A passionate gourmand with a curious spirit, she secretly slips into the imperial kitchens at night to learn the art of cooking from the palace chef. Her quiet adventures take an unexpected turn when a wounded general is brought into hiding within the palace after a brutal conflict. Despite the danger, the compassionate princess chooses to help and protect him, revealing a quiet courage and selflessness beneath her gentle nature. Through shared meals, late-night conversations, and small acts of kindness, an unlikely bond begins to blossom between them. As their worlds slowly intertwine, the princess discovers that love, destiny, and true strength can emerge from the most unexpected places.
A man's relationship with his wife - and himself - changes when he encounters a mysterious stranger adrift at sea.
