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Just before the Saltiz hit the upload button on their 100th vlog - everything disappears. The channel is deleted. No one knows who, no one knows why. The Saltiz embark on the longest and most dangerous journey of their lives to get their channel back, but along the way everything goes wrong.
A figure devoid of identity stands in a field of flowers.
A girl is struggling to study and is in desperate need to take a break from her screen.
After an accidental ritual, the protagonist's favorite films begin to literally interfere with his reality, gradually bringing to the limit the feeling that has accompanied him from the very beginning.
A stop-motion animation depicting a person's view of sensory overload
A struggling writer is confronted by temptation to make his life a little easier.
After years of silence from the woman he once loved across borders, a lonely man revisits their memories through a heartfelt letter, searching for closure he may never find.
Lulú, a 7-year-old girl, encourages her mother, who has recently had breast surgery, to regain the confidence to go out again.
A film on contact and intersection
The protagonist can harness various kinds of power from this world to unleash devastating special moves. He is also a man who, even if eaten by a shark—the kind that has a one-in-a-million chance of appearing—would somehow survive!
What is a landscape? Is it an idea of desire? I sit on the edge of a precipice, looking at the mountains before me. The desire for possession presses my finger against the shutter of the camera... No! It is not enough. I reach my hand into the landscape. It is blood that begins to pour from the mountains and the valleys. I ask: Is this a criminal illusion? What is a landscape? Is it a specter of memory and the imaginary? I ask: What did the landscape whisper into the ear of your eye? How far does the extent of its reality reach? To which one of these does it belong? To the living space and time, or to a lost space and time in the past, or even in the future?
A nosebleed in the bathroom sink.
An unclear job listing and loads of miscommunication make for a comedic interview between these three characters.
A Leftover DV camera pulls a father bereaved of his son back to the past. Following the clues captured in the footage, motorbike taxi driver Lao Zhang wanders between reality and memory. Through countless encounters and pursuits, he slowly pieces together the untold life of his son, gaining a renewed understanding of family bond, loss and farewell.
Born with black-and-white skin, a lonely student is excluded by his classmates. When the bullying escalates, only one girl refuses to judge him.
When the 2011 Christchurch earthquake struck, tattoo apprentice Bonnie Singh was inside Southern Ink, the studio where she had finally begun chasing her dream. The tattoo studio collapsed and Bonnie, trapped in the rubble, suffered a broken back, a shattered neck, and a brain injury that would affect her for life. With the help of fellow tattooist Jak Law, Bonnie is determined to push through physical and neurological limitations to master the craft of tattooing that once seemed out of reach. A story of resilience, reinvention, and the invisible scars we carry, this is not just a film about tattoos but instead is about what it means to rebuild a life and the importance of having a dream when everything has fallen away.
After a year, Ariel tries to return to the passage where he grew up. Through a letter and a need to understand the reason and wherefores of things, he seeks to heal a deep wound that won't leave him alone.
Based on José Miguel Soto Jiménez’s book Muchachos de la Democracia, this documentary revisits one of the Dominican Republic’s most pivotal chapters in its democratic history. Through firsthand testimonies, archival footage, and historical research, the film chronicles the actions of a group of military officers whose decisions helped safeguard constitutional order during periods of political uncertainty, offering a compelling reflection on the enduring value of democracy, institutional integrity, and national memory.
A story about the messy, complicated love between two reckless souls — and drugs, of course.
