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A look at the conditions of chicken in megafarms in the United Kingdom.
A compilation of strange 1-minute dreams.
A singer song writer frustrated with her music wandered through the city of Darjeeling in search of inspiration.
Spejdernes Lejr meets one of the world's most popular digital universes, as three of Denmark's most well-known Minecraft YouTubers take to the Main Stage alongside Lakserytteren. The two brothers Emil and Mikkel Trier and Nat, known from Nat og David, all four beloved by children and young people across the country. With hundreds of thousands of followers, they are among the most-watched Minecraft creators in Denmark — and now they're meeting their scout fans live for the very first time at Spejdernes Lejr. Together with Lakserytteren, you can look forward to a Wednesday event at the camp unlike anything seen before. We can't yet reveal exactly what's in store. But if you have scouts between the ages of 8 and 14, chances are they know exactly who's coming — and that they'll be absolutely thrilled when you tell them. This is one of those events they'll be talking about not just when they get home, but for many years to come. Stay tuned — more details on the way.
Through footsteps and shadows, a wordless story explores fear, loss and the disintegration of womanhood.
A quiet whistling returned from childhood; the calm of a sky and a river dissolving into one another, from which emerges the image of a loved one. For the duration of a reflection, the water reveals memories and offers the delicacy of a glimpse into the course of a life.
Yura, a young girl who struggles to fit in with her classmates, discovers an old smartphone while helping clean out a disused school building. Out of curiosity, she and her friends power it on. Soon afterward, strange videos featuring the children themselves begin appearing on their phones. At first, the clips seem like harmless jokes and are consumed much like viral internet memes. What the children do not realize, however, is that these videos are foretelling a horrifying future that awaits them.
As his internship comes to an end, a masked young man delivers a heartfelt farewell to the people and moments that shaped his journey. Through humor, gratitude, and quiet reflection, his final message celebrates an unforgettable chapter before he steps into the next one.
A short, experimental/contemplative film.
In the remote forests of eastern Cambodia lives a community of indigenous inhabitants. An unnamed forty-year-old businessman arrives with seemingly selfless intentions: he claims he is merely a tourist seeking to discover the life of his “brothers”. In actuality, however, he is gathering information for the possible expropriation of their land. Italian globetrotter Giovanni C. Lorusso lives up to his reputation as a filmmaker balancing on the line between fiction and documentary. Through unique locations, mesmerizing camera work, and immersive sound design, he captures the slow inner transformation of his protagonist along with the rich cultural and spiritual life of a community facing a modern form of colonialism.
Follows Ken Jeong and Rei Ami as they launch a public awareness campaign to reshape the perception of sharks across East Asia using K-Pop after shark encounters off the Korean Peninsula.
Two incompetent teenagers, Sammy and Tim, are entrusted with a bag of cocaine to keep safe for the day. To them it seems simple, that is until they begin to realise that everyone and everything seems to be trying their best to get in their way.
State College, Pennsylvania becomes isolating if one doesn’t fit the mold. Sex Van Floor Plan is an observational documentary that takes an intimate look into the lives of the members of a small town punk band. Helmed by their bassist Ellis, the group works together to finish recording their first single and ruminates on what it truly means to be a Riot Girl.
An unemployed hero on the verge of an emotional and financial collapse, searches with all his strength for a purpose in life. When he receives an offer to work at the Public Security Secretariat, he feels relieved and thinks that he will finally be able to put his life back together, but the hero quickly discovers that the job is far from what he expected.
As the world comes to an end, Shah Ismail embarks on a quest for the water of Life.
This film was created using footage I shot on my phone from 2022 to 2026, videos pulled from various sources, and digital collage. - Christian Cornell
After missing the chance to express his feelings, a young aspiring writer begins crafting the story he wishes he had lived. As fiction, UNSAID explores love, regret, and the quiet weight of words left unspoken.
A boy attempts to understand a girl through the memories of others. As different versions emerge, the truth becomes unclear. A story about perception, memory, and the impossibility of a single truth.
As a boy, he witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a gun-wielding demon - trauma that ignited a burning desire for justice. As a man, he now struggles to walk the razor’s edge between justice and vengeance. In a neon-lit city’s dark criminal underbelly, his path of destruction begins to spiral out of control, with cash piling higher than the mountain of bodies left in his wake. But when the long-awaited confrontation arrives, the stakes shift — A snake lunges at its prey only to bite its own tail.
