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Heejin tries to restore old footage of her mother. With her father, she sells her mother's books and transplants a tree. Amid their quiet, persistent labor, life goes on.
A socially incompetent office worker is placed under the supervision of an AI employee programmed to help him achieve his first sale.
Lost in the midst of a universal internet, visitors wander through a virtual museum, dressed in bizarre avatars. In this psychedelic-tinged documentary, it is through the perplexed gaze of a fish who arrived there by chance while surfing the internet that the directors lift the veil on the visitors' imaginations and their intimate vision of art and museum space.
Late one night Simon picks up his drunken father. As they drive through the dark, their familiar bickering stirs up old wounds and long-buried guilt. Before the night is over, Simon will face a truth he can no longer escape.
Ukrainian cinematographer Anatoliy Khymych raises three dogs, one of which he saved from death, and the shadows of the films he has shot — about Chornobyl, in particular — are recalled.
As you go to bed to rest from the fatigue of the day, you find yourself unable to sleep, overwhelmed by excessive thoughts, drifting back through the memories of your life—until you finally reach a path with no escape.
At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla's body and mind are undergoing a revolution.
A troubled high school girl tackles the weight of a firearm that's been in her backpack all day as a manifestation pokes and teases her, making her rethink her future decisions.
A film that boldly ventures into realms of intimacy that cinema rarely addresses so directly. Its creator, Dr. Diego Semerene – a non-binary Brazilian filmmaker and scholar of queer media at the University of Amsterdam – made a film essay twenty years ago as a deeply personal conversation with his father about growing up, sexuality and the search for masculinity. Their father had never seen this until now, watching it for the first time as a 71-year-old man. The film returns to that material, confronting the past with the present through an extraordinarily honest dialogue between father and child. It is a story about a queer childhood in Brazil, about the emotional tension between the desire for acceptance and personal identity, and about how memory and family intertwine with our deepest longings. Hypnotic, demanding and remarkably brave cinema that invites a conversation about the boundaries of intimacy.
A shadow puppet music video for the song by Sally Baby's Silver Dollars, blending Creole jazz, spiritual folk imagery, and hand-cut animation.
A band makes its debut in Mar del Plata, but its singer disappears before the show. Amid chaos, desire, and an uncertain wait, the big night tests the bonds of the group.
A knock at 4:30 am wakes sysadmin Andrey. A stranger in a red bathrobe with a pie in hand introduces himself as a neighbour, pushes his way inside, and begins tidying up the place.
After years of constant abuse and torment a nameless young adult has had enough and decides it’s finally time to escape, but is it that easy?
A struggling immigrant cleaner walks into the wrong house and becomes trapped in the fallout of a violent past, forcing her into a brutal fight for survival across Los Angeles and the desert beyond.
