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The announcement of the opening of a centre for asylum seekers causes a stir in a small Swiss village.
In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden loft in which he and Flo lived, and from it he derives a lacunar, fragmented, sculptural reenvisioning of on-screen (and domestic) space. Made in 2024, world premiere at Film at Lincoln Center on April 20, 2026.
Angel Is a boy who loves music and is in love with his best friend but soon we'll see the relationship between him and his catholic mother.
Jimmie the Thingie lives in a world of forgotten ideas. One day on a stroll he runs into a particularly hangry puppet named Fred.
In a new adventure of ass-kicking, crime-fighter Pat Riot must team up with petty thief Percy Wingfoot to stop a greater enemy.
A film student, who denies being in love with his teacher, wonders what cinema is, what love is, and why we do what we do.
In this expressive and community-centered work, Wayuú director Marbel Vanegas Jusayu documents the social, spiritual, and environmental impacts of the installation of a wind farm in Apotnojushi, a historically marginalized community that remains committed to its sovereignty. Women leaders such as Ana Rosa Jusayu, the director’s mother, work to strengthen the social fabric, activate historical memory, and assert their right to determine their future. Through the voices and living portraits of community members, the piece reflects in its vignettes the community’s deep connection to its ancestral territory.
A devoted CPS worker and her family are taken hostage by two desperate parents searching for their wrongfully removed child, exposing a cover-up that threatens her career--and life.
In a dystopian world of concrete blocks and digital illusions, citizens live between work and simulated "peace." Citizen 2001X13 begins to question the system, uncovering erased memories through talks with a figure from his subconscious
After turning his life around and following the death of his ex-wife, a father decides to make amends to the daughter he hasn't seen for almost eight years.
This is an intimate and fragmented portrait of what it means to fall in love in the 21st century. Where desire, breadcrumbing, and vulnerability intertwine in a process of falling, self-creation, and pure frenzy.
Yard One shows fragments of people navigating the city of Brussels through dreams, family and community. It's a tribute to its rich electronic music scene and a glimpse of how the sound system functions in today's world. It's a voice for the people. A stand. A vision. A mission.
The latest film by Tomi “Malakias” Malki, the creator of the animation The Fruits of Wrath, is a snapshot in the spirit of Kalervo Palsa, true to its creator's style.
Shenzhen, New York. The 16th typhoon of the year is approaching the Chinese coast. In the sweltering night, two queer voices call out to one another from each of the cities. Slowly, the two metropolises, filmed on celluloid, overlap and merge. The two voices then fear another typhoon approaching, one that is even more threatening.
Ira Melnichenko, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland with her brother, creates a doll in her own image, through which she revisits the story of a family torn apart by the death of her father, a 2D animator in Kyiv, destroyed by alcohol and dereliction. In her eyes – those of a child forced to grow up too fast – we read tenderness and bewilderment in the face of a vanished world.
WWE Superstars and analysts break down the results from WrestleMania, including highlights and reactions.
Juna is a broke and heartbroken young guy, who seeks to turn his life around through an app that promises him instant success.
Jae-eun quits school and now works at a driving school. She wants to get close to Dong-hyuk, a high school student learning to drive. But he still seems attached to his ex-girlfriend, who goes to group therapy.
A young man begins to form negative views on women and relationships after several failed dating experiences.
