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Apr 2026
After being made fun of at the pub, Quaid attempts to set a Guinness World Record – no matter the price.
May 2026
After a young peasant is spurned by her vampiric lover, she embarks on a blood-soaked odyssey that spans centuries.
A film-diary that jumps through time and space, and finds connections between various sceneries and situations, which ordinarily would not exist together.
Here we follow the production of a film about debt, where the protagonist is a debt-crippled Pinocchio – crowned the king of debt – ready to do anything to stay in power. In the search for funding for this political satire, the grand fiction on which our economic system is based – between scams and legal loopholes – is revealed.
Muddy Currents goes back to the literal source of Israeli domination in the settlements in Palestine. Starting with the capture of water, artist Shadi Habib Allah explores how a people is deprived of its natural and basic resources, formally asking the question: how do we represent the lack of what is necessary?
From altar boy to Britain's most famous liar, Harry Clark explores what it means to be a 'good catholic' as he embarks on a pilgrimage to Rome and attempts to meet the new pope.
May Day! is a feature-length documentary which follows Oxford's thousand-year old tradition of May Morning, the largest celebration of its kind, regularly attracting over 15,000 people each year. It is a collage-like portrait of the tradition, attempting to find out how the celebration has survived the separation between the land and its people, what the pagan festival means thousands of years after its inception, and how it shapes and contributes to our nation's sense of self.
After billionaire Annie Mercer was found dead in her apartment, it's up to hotshot rookie Henry Campbell to figure out who killed her within 24 hours. His suspects? A gardener, An ex-employee, A lawyer, and the victim's sister.
A whimsical filmmaker turns to his rational zoologist mother to help film animals. As memories of tigers and pet rabbits surface, the zoologist is compelled to question her relationship with animals.
A film about the life of film director Vitaly Melnikov. The son of an "enemy of the people," a student of Yutkevich and Eisenstein, and a witness to Stalin's "personality cult" and its debunking, Melnikov created such celebrated films as "The Chief of Chukotka," "Mama Got Married," "The Eldest Son," "Vacation in September," "Marry the Captain," and "Poor, Poor Pavel." This documentary about Vitaly Melnikov is the director's personal story and the history of our country, inseparable from each other.
HOUSE RULES is about a game night that spirals into bloody chaos as a group of friends unknowingly play a cursed board game. As the night unfolds, their darkest impulses emerge subconsciously, exposing the ruthless nature of game night and capitalism.
Mystery Wrestling #24 took place April 11 on Twitch.TV
A brand-new little book gets lost in the vast maze of a grand library and journeys through every section in search of where he belongs, only to realize that the most meaningful place to be isn't always where you fit in best.
The deaths of children in the village are believed to be due to the Sandekala myth, a time considered terrifying in the afternoon. Bayan is a child who has lost his friends. However, behind this incident, it turns out there is a dark secret: a soil-fertilization ritual. Slowly, the truth is revealed, including who is behind all the deaths.
“Some time ago, I decided to stop writing synopses of my films. I want people to come without knowing what they are going to see. There will be no trailer either; they are deceitful and never truly reflect the spirit of the film. Thank you for your understanding.” -Raúl Perrone