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When Victoire, a young trans judoka, reaches the final of a regional competition, her opponent, Sonia, refuses to compete against her.
In 2005, at the age of 20, I got my first DV camera. Back then, I harbored a lofty dream: to become a film director.When I wasn’t shooting short films, I occasionally filmed the two elderly women in my family — my maternal grandmother and paternal grandmother. Simply put, they were advanced in years, and I wanted to leave some footage as memories for my future children.I shot numerous short films and wrote dozens of screenplays over those years, yet none of them ever went anywhere.My maternal grandmother passed away in 2018, followed by my paternal grandmother in 2020, and my dream of making films crumbled completely during that period.It was not until one day, as I looked at my own child, that it suddenly dawned on me: those trivial daily recordings might well be the most precious footage I had ever captured. I then resolved to edit the years of archived material into a full-length feature.
“Suite Dreams” is a three-episode fiction film set in hotel rooms that hold historical, social, and symbolic layers of Brazil. At Hotel Riazor (Rio de Janeiro), the story unfolds on the night of August 24, 1954, facing the windows of Catete Palace — when entering history can mean leaving life behind. Madeira Palace (São Paulo), a well-known downtown hotel associated with chemsex encounters, receives a character immersed in delirium and confinement, confronted with his own duplication. Freely inspired by Campos de Carvalho. At Hotel Glória (Rio de Janeiro), the rise of a new real estate icon unfolds — because even ghosts are forced to update themselves.
Sid Silver spirals from existential dread to the best way to battle mosquitoes, questions a breakup cliché that makes no sense, revisits the Telegram ban through a corporate analogy, and reflects on the demise of a man on his way to work, only to inevitably end up in a story involving literal shit.
In the quiet stillness of a dying summer, Soren cares for his sister as a terminal illness slowly destroys her body from within. Love and mercy begin to intertwine with something far darker.
Video trailer for the album 《永遠。》by mossheilys.
Four punk friends from Alchevsk travel to a winter camp in Burshtyn, where they pull off a series of absurd prykoly – sawing apart a wardrobe, setting off a fire extinguisher, and dragging their friend Stepan’s bed into the bathroom. Assembled entirely from Sasha Chepeliev’s school-era video and photo archives (2005–2006) and woven together with a cycle of songs written by the director, the film becomes a funny and heartbreaking journey through adolescence, when cruelty went hand in hand with tenderness, and playing with political slogans still felt like nothing more than a game.
A married man in a struggling relationship constantly dreams of another woman whom he has never met, or has no recollection of ever knowing. In a desperate attempt to remove her from his mind and to stop his thoughts of being a disloyal husband, he lucid dreams out of the reality of him dreaming of the mystery girl. However, he lucid dreams to the point of no return - he can no longer decipher whether he is real or not anymore.
a boy hides in a closet from intruders to save his life
Paranoia sets in as a teenager buys weed for the first time.
5 grey cats around a room if your curious on what there doing then watch the film on youtube
I did everything tip-top, a then... Created for the purpose of Šuma — a sound design workshop conceived as a collaboration between generations of filmmakers who are a part of Kino klub Osijek.
Kids' Festival! All the Heroes of Justice Appear was a televised celebration of tokusatsu heroes in 1976.
This movie shows a family having fun and hiking at red rock park in colorado
Edith, a woman in her sixties, avoids looking around, terrified of catching a glimpse of the creature behind her hallucinations. She spends her day staring at a blank wall, lost in painful memories of her daughter.
A poetic film following internationally recognised multi-Indigenous DJ Lady Shaka as she transforms club spaces into sites of resistance, connection, and cultural reclamation. Through music, movement, and community, she celebrates Pacific identity and turns the dance floor into a living expression of resilience and belonging.
A documentary film shot on an iPhone 12 for two months in Anapa during the aftermath of the wreck of fuel oil tankers.
