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After an unsettling encounter with a religious man, a missionary's perspective on his faith is skewed and polluted by powerful encounters with evil omens.
A disturbance is introduced to a pond near Cordova, Alaska, prompting reflection on the images we make.
Follows Grammy-winning guitarist Gabriela Quintero as she creates her debut solo album, charting a path beyond her global success with Rodrigo y Gabriela.
The film, through experimental storytelling techniques, penetrates the psychic world of two people who are trying to heal their broken relationship. Condemned to run futilely and endlessly on a black and white split screen, atonement and reconnection are transformed more and more into an elusive dream.
“In Portugal, music videos were called telediscos. This is my teledisco from Astorga, focusing on the Panero family.”
A first-person account of the many lives of poet and artist Fernando Noy. In his outings, he relives key episodes in Argentine culture, from hippism and the dictatorship to Pizarnik, Cemento and Batato, brought to the present by his memory.
Julián films his relatives on his mother’s side, film and television actors in the 1990s, while trying to understand what happened to his mother, who’s been institutionalized in different psychiatric facilities for more than 25 years.
Gayoung and Seungju go to sort through their friend Jiwon's belongings. Among the items Jiwon left behind, they encounter secrets they've each kept hidden. The moments of that day, when they couldn't cross the crosswalk, come flooding back.
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving a mysterious goblin recluse that has taken refuge inside of an abandoned observatory.
romantic to infinity + my extreme love x Montevideo
The Tanaru Indigenous Territory holds the memory and story of the 'Man of the Hole.' As the sole survivor of his people, he outlived the massacre that ravaged Rondônia during the 1990s.
The imminent closure of a historic 800-year-old paper mill in Italy signals the irretrievable loss of a centuries-old craft and decades of history erased.
Despite their different aspirations, backgrounds, and origins, Ilyasse and Pauline, scientists in their early twenties, share one common dream: escaping to the moon to address Earth's problems. Each of them dedicates all their resources and efforts to achieve this goal. But what if space was political, and what if dreaming was too?
The German government refuses to pay reparations for its occupation of Namibia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and for genocide of the indigenous population. Instead, it offers development cooperation programmes that exude a disheartening neo-colonialism and appalling racism, disguised as solidarity, obvious to everyone except German officials and nostalgic tourists.
The Interpreter follows Amjad, a Syrian refugee in the UK, as he retrains to become a community interpreter, returning to the very system that once interrogated him. Revisiting his own asylum interviews, Amjad navigates the charged dynamics between interpreter, displaced and authority. Through staged re-enactments, the film interrogates the ethics of neutrality and the interpreter’s role as both voice and barrier, where translation becomes an act of subversion and connection.
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Sandro begins writing down his memories—incredible tales previously unknown to his family.
I think of an ambiguous relationship between a woman from my hometown and a man from another city. They spent only a brief time together, yet could only keep talking. Unable to truly face one another, past scenes return to the surface of time. Was it a trace against the city's flow, or a reflection briefly allowed?
