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A heart-warming story about loss, community, and acceptance.
Things turn for the worse as a student's fears of public speaking overpower him during a speech.
A man returns to his room one evening in distress
In Dieulefit, a small town halfway between Lyon and Marseille, over 1,000 refugees found shelter during the Second World War.
A tumultuous meeting between supposed friends leads Mike on a path of self discovery that lands him in the wrong place at the wrong time.
One girl's struggle to break free from the suffocating constraints of a world that wasn't made for her. Will she escape? Or be forever trapped inside a hellscape while forced conformity overrides her outward persona until no trace remains of her former self...
The ordinary life of a young mechanic unexpectedly changes after a mysterious encounter that gives him a chance for incredible luck — at a price he does not yet understand the meaning of.
To dance, to coexist, to fly? This and more is combined in each of the human beings who share the movement to the rhythm of the reed and the wind. Whether they do it for the community, their deities, for them- selves, or for the earth itself, they overflow in the experience of the spirit from the body. The intense rituals to parsimony are transferred from the regions of Puebla to the inhabitants of the world.
This documentary explores the ancient water system of Douiret-Sbâa, Morocco, a remarkable network fed by a local spring that has sustained the community for centuries. Highlighting the ingenuity of traditional hydro-technologies, the film examines how these systems continue to shape life in arid lands today.
"N’Dobine" follows a traveler navigating his heart and past, guided by ritual and spirituality, as an unforeseen obstacle tests his journey of offering.
A reclusive author suffering from alcoholism embraces her recovery and finally faces a past that has haunted her since her youth.
A pair of astronauts on a rescue mission discover a strange signal coming from deep space.
After the AMIA bombing, Adriana Reisfeld's life changes forever with the loss of her sister. Through archive and intreviews, Adriana takes on the responsability of keeping her sister's memory alive, with her compromise to seaking justice with Memoria Activa, to confront the silence and impunity that the AMIA cause and the victims face since 1994 to this day.
Jamie falls through traumatic memories that inform her present.
Alexis Conran explores the claims that smartphones and tech companies might be listening in on users and collecting a vast amount of personal data. How do our phones seem to know everything?
In 1896, 106 people were exhibited at the Berlin Colonial Exhibition. Based on ethnographic archives, the film reimagines the moment before a colonial photograph was taken and transforms that image into a song of resistance and rebellion.
A reconstruction of the night when Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota presented Gulp! at Cemento. With previously unseen footage and testimonies, the film captures the origins of a mystique that marked Argentine rock.
Argentina, 2038. The country seems abandoned, and the first extraterrestrial experiments occupy mountains and roads. A father travels with his eight-year-old daughter, who is experimenting with telekinetic powers, and a baby. Portrait of a deeply Argentine dystopia.
As his father's health rapidly declines, Tom returns home to face a family he has learned to keep at arm's length. Over the course of a single day, quiet moments, half heard conversations, and unspoken truths surface as Tom, his family, and the palliative care team navigate the fragile space between hope and acceptance. Struggling to communicate what matters most, Tom must confront the weight of what he has never said, and what time may no longer allow him to say. Set against the intimate backdrop of a working class family in Stoke-on-Trent, Between Breath and Silence explores love, loss, and the complexities of communication when words fall short.
In a Marrakech call centre, sales calls to France become a profound meditation on voice, distance, and who gets to be heard.
