After a night at a bar in the far south of São Paulo, three friends wake up hungover and realize that the fourth never came back. Amid unanswered messages and an attempt to carry on with their Sunday, the wait teeters between the tragic and the comic.
Gita, an island woman traumatized by the sea, urges her fiancé Dama—a fisherman—to become a tour guide. Caught between the land and the sea, the two must choose one.
The last known footage of a disgraced news broadcaster, Bill Marquette, is found amid a police database leak. After a tip about a news story that could help revive his career, he was never seen or heard from again.
A few moments in the life of a young woman, torn between her daily boredom, her secret torments, and her memories of the past.
Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with themes of seppuku, duty, and loyalty to one’s masters and the shogun, we see very little in terms of action. Instead, the film focuses on the inner thoughts and struggles of the protagonist—who is ordered to perform a ritual suicide—his wife, and their entire household, all leading up to the final moment.
Bangka in 1981. A brother and sister were fighting over a 'pet' known as Mawang. A large, hairy, fanged and sharp-nailed creature. The older brother wants to keep Mawang, so that he can become powerful and wealthy. In the end, the Mawang was locked up by the younger brother in a sacred box. 30 years later, a griup of researcher accidentally finds and opens the sacred box. Mawang escapes and terrorizes them and the surrounding community.
The documentary film WAR FUN explores the deeply human, yet taboo, role that humor and joy can play in war. Based on the research project War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN) at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, the film follows Professor Antonio De Lauri and his team of researchers as they investigate the experience of war from the perspective of those who fight. The research project aims to bridge the gap between the narrative and the reality of war.
A showcase of 100 years of film programming at the historic Tampa Theatre.
Three couples arrive at a Brooklyn artist’s studio expecting individual sessions with their psychologist. Instead, they discover their therapist left behind a letter and a series of sealed envelopes instructing them to conduct their own unconventional group therapy session, which quickly spirals into an increasingly volatile confrontation as long-buried secrets, betrayals and uncomfortable truths come to light. As the partners turn on one another and their relationships begin to unravel, the session builds toward a series of revelations that challenge everything they thought they knew about each other.
After her sister’s sudden death, an ambitious assistant director puts her dreams of working abroad on hold to raise her orphaned niece and face a family history she thought she could leave behind.
What does our culture dream? How can we locate that dream within the logics which govern our lives? Half collage, half essay, half serious, “A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear” is a busy, referential riff on the political moment.
Through interviews with women who have been trained in the craft of making traditional Lepoglava lace we learn about this symbol's role in the creation of Lepoglava's identity and how it connects local women across time and space.
Molly is a ten-year-old girl who believes that if she learns to play the fiddle like her dad and wins the All-Ireland Music championship, her father will wake from his coma. Still in a coma, her dad is moved to a rehab centre, where Molly befriends Malachy, a grumpy old man who plays the fiddle beautifully and is told he has magic in his hands. They connect as she coaxes him to teach her to play and together they go in search of the magic that only music can bring.
A working man must confront his secret shame as his online activity unravels into his personal life- following an intimate encounter with an anonymous internet user.
María manages the daily demands of family life, although she and Jordi believe they share the responsibilities equally. An unexpected reversal of roles lets Jordi discover the invisible work involved in caring for their home and children.
When a bite from an endangered eel starts replacing an unsuspecting scientist’s skin with salt, the scientist must give in to the unstoppable force of transformation. With a muted, earthy color palette, this hopeful short finds peace in the often painful process of becoming something, or someone, new.
Cassandra is a middle-aged mother and author whose muted life is given a new focus and her marriage is upended when she discovers a bottomless hole in her basement.
