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When the mom who abandoned her passes away, Victoria must confront her feelings about the situation when someone unexpected shows up. Her mom's guardian.
Someone who just doesn't want to wake up.
A family welcomes a generous stranger into their home, but as his stay lengthens, tragedies begin to occur around them and suspicion grows.
For forty years, the filmmaker’s mother devoted herself to others, first as a primary school teacher and later as the disability coordinator within her school. Her decision to leave the public sector becomes the occasion for a generous portrait that reveals a system in crisis.
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Shira, a teenage girl from a kibbutz in northern Israel, begins working at the kibbutz fish ponds. Working in the same place where her mother worked in her youth brings a story from the past to the surface.
In Ayacucho, the conflict ended decades ago, but its scars remain. Three mothers continue searching for their missing children while facing hardship, grief, and the challenge of keeping their memory alive.
2026 release
A mother with a doctorate, a middle-aged unemployed worker, an unqualified wife, a daughter trapped under constant interference. Zhang Xin struggles to juggle these conflicting identities. In the end, she has no choice but to lower her guard and turn to her mother for help—yet an even greater upheaval awaits her in life…
An Indian refugee living in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, witness to the political instability surrounding him, drifts into a melancholic and elegiac meditation on his condition as a foreigner. Film stock is his last refuge.
Dora prepares for her driving exam, but, as takes lessons in her boyfriend's old Audi, she slowly starts to realize that the root of her anxieties isn't the road itself, but, rather, the coming of age process that comes with it.
A documentary short about Portland’s iconic Hollywood Theatre and Movie Madness video store.
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Part of the Prince's Seat project, which uses an amateur actor’s obsessive impersonation of Laurence Olivier to examine the contradictions and physical tolls of aspirational embodiment. The work explores how we attempt to grasp at fading legacies and performative roles.
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.
Law student Cassian, can't seem to let go of his high school sweetheart, Victoria, who seems to have moved on without him. And there's this mystery girl that lingers in his mind like perfume in an old house. With the pressure of the future and the state of the world weighing heavily on him, how will Cassian confront everything he's trying to run from?
