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A paranormal investigator discovers that love comes in all shapes, and anomalies.
Two people searching for the other, missing each other until the right moment.
“herstory” is a project that borrows the word history and retells it through women’s perspectives. It presents stories situated in various contextual ‘spaces,’ which serve as backdrops revealing the ‘emotional spaces’ of female characters in film. Through their voices, the narratives convey their emotions, political frustrations, and the quiet pressures imposed by social structures.
Against the backdrop of Nigerian burial traditions, a widow and her three children struggle with the noise of public spectacle that isolates them in their private grief.
A film celebrating the resilience of queer people of colour, reflecting on the journey to nonbinary identity and the courage to embrace oneself fully.
A mother and her son have left the marital home. The mother entrusts her son Jacques to a friend for the day. This is an opportunity for the little boy to play with Julie. But Jacques has a secret: he loves playing with dolls.
Five ways to capture a sunset. Five ways to make the eye flutter and fly. Practical exercise on a central idea: how to generate a montage without cutting the material or how to cut with the movement of the camera. Flicker Film. Silent. Color. Digital. Recorded with a cellphone.
A mother and son exist in a confined space of constant conflict, where every conversation turns into a fight. They flee their own identities, where love becomes a form of pressure, and care a source of hatred. Both characters speak the same language, but they invest words with different meanings, leaving each other no chance to be heard. The disappearance of their son becomes the point of no return. Having lost her last connection to life, the mother is left alone with a void where suicide is not a cry for help, but the result of a total misunderstanding. It's about the silence that follows words spoken too late.
Lorena and her friend Agustina go together to the wake of an old acquaintance.
Cia (16), the adopted daughter of a matchmaker, finds out that she will be photographed naked to be sent to Taiwan as a mail-order bride. Within his limitations and restraints, she tries to find a way to avoid an arranged marriage.
After returning home from shopping, Belle is met with an early Christmas surprise when an intruder breaks into her home, knocks her unconscious, and ties her up. Belle now waits for her husband to return home to save her from this mysterious man.
Death encounters three lost souls and tries to help them on their journey into the afterlife.
A Florida scavenger named Dewey Shawn accepts a strange barter from a button-obsessed recluse, leading him to a deserted drive-in where a final exchange with the "one who waits below" threatens to cost him more than he bargained for.
