This documentary celebrates Cadu Barcellos, a Black filmmaker from the Maré favela complex. In defiance of erasure, the film moves beyond tragedy to celebrate his light, ancestry, and legacy.
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.
Set in a near future, SILIQ follows an advanced drone prototype on a classified cargo delivery mission across Taiwan. As it navigates landscapes through machine vision, it witnesses traditional rituals, everyday traditions, and traces of a rapidly changing world. Processing these encounters beyond its original programming, SILIQ begins to question the nature of memory, spirituality, and consciousness. Blending speculative science fiction with Taiwanese mythology, the film explores whether an artificial intelligence can develop its own understanding of humanity, and ultimately make choices beyond the intentions of its creators.
A newscaster has a mental breakdown behind the scenes.
Letters from Tibet follows an exchange across time between a British colonial officer and a contemporary archivist. Tracing how Tibet has been framed through colonial correspondence, photography, and cinema.
A heartbroken manicurist accidentally takes a hitman's job, landing her in a deadly conspiracy where she must choose between saving her family or killing the man of her dreams.
A child actor wandering between reality and fiction, a prisoner using his furlough, and a woman trapped at her son’s christening. A day in the life of each of the three members of a family over whom the same question hangs: Who am I, and who do I want to be? Three stories about identity, separated by time, but united by blood ties and a decision that will mark the lives of all three.
Two lifelong friends and aspiring musicians begin to spiral downwards as one of them decides to move away to pursue a new career.
In the midst of the Seven Years' War, a company of hardened soldiers force their young bagpipe player into battle, only to discover that their enemy is not what they expected.
The key of evil is forged in hell, and a demon escapes with it, asking for help from the former priest Rodrigo, what he doesn't know is that the devil's bounty hunter is coming for the search, with all the forces of darkness with him.
A collection of footage from Erim's parents' 1998 vacation in Paris.
A couple and their daughters try to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite the threats and fears during Argentina's civic-military dictatorship.
In a futuristic Lagos, Kay, bike mechanic prodigy, yearns to become a street racer like his idol Maze. Desperate to turn his dream into reality, he enters the dangerous Japa Rush. Will he make it to the finish line?
Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.
prepared and presented by Nigussu Film Production
A librarian is closing up the library to only find out that they aren't alone.
When a girl sacrifices her dreams to care for her ailing father, she discovers his illness was a fabrication, and now must choose between the life she surrendered and the cage she built around herself.
A reclusive prodigy turns to the occult, brewing ayahuasca, the fabled vine of souls, and unknowingly opens a portal, unleashing an entity from another dimension.
