While a group of mimes are getting ready for a performance, one of them reaches a breaking point.
An intimate portrait of the actress celebrated for "Maude," "The Golden Girls" and "Mame." Built around a previously unseen interview conducted by producer and director Dan Watt, the film traces Arthur’s path from The New School and New York theatre to Broadway and television. Through Arthur’s own reflections and interviews with colleagues and close friends, the documentary looks beyond the tall, hilariously brassy public persona to reveal a woman who was also sensitive, vulnerable, compassionate and deeply committed to the people and causes she valued.
Halloween's favorite tradition goes post-apocalyptic with the Hallowarrior filmmakers and their trove of Junk O' Lanterns.
Lucky (Anna Marie Myšičková) looks for answers in fortune cookies. But even more important to her is the opinion of her older sister, Viki (Alžběta Malá). But while for one, the words hidden in the cookie are proof of their sisterly bond, for the other, they’re just a scrap of paper. Will they manage, during an afternoon spent together, to overcome their estrangement—even if only for a moment—or has the time come to answer the uncomfortable question: What if they weren’t sisters?
From civil rights warrior and black militant to fearless dissident, Shelby Steele unmasks white guilt as the toxin that poisoned America -- destroying merit, igniting riots, demolishing standards, and now arming global chaos from campus bloodlust to civilizational suicide.
Minutes before a job interview, a man with a stubborn case of shy bladder becomes the center of an increasingly surreal restroom spectacle as every well-intention attempt to help only makes things worse.
A couple running a restaurant hires young people who have been released from juvenile detention to help them reintegrate into society. The 18-year-old Yuto is keen to start a new life with their help.
A young boy attempts to capture his grandma's story in the brief window before she must go.
Tracing the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel and the passage surrounding the Channel Islands, guided by the belief of many coastal tribes that souls of the dead travel west over the ocean, La Marea explores the sea as a threshold between the living and the departed. Through tides, light and shifting currents, ancestral cosmologies intertwine with contemporary stories of exile and return. Created in dialogue with Bryan Senti’s musical composition, part of a larger body of work inspired by his father’s exile from Cuba by sea, La Marea carries these oceanic crossings into a shared reflection on displacement, remembrance and the invisible forces that continue to move through us.
Venturing into intricate cave systems, the deep oceans, and subterranean aquifers where light barely reaches, we meet the scientists who have dedicated their lives to creatures who have evolved in perpetual darkness, working tirelessly—often in obscurity—to understand and protect ecosystems and animals most people will never know exist. Paralleling the deeply personal journey of the film's director as he confronts a terminal illness, the story becomes a reflection on what it means to face one's own darkness.
In Amiens, 50 police officers attend sociology classes to rethink their profession, their relationship with the public and approaches to crime prevention. Over the course of a year, this documentary follows their experience in an unusual university programme launched through a partnership between the University of Picardie Jules Verne and the National Police Academy.
After his mother is falsely accused and shamed by a corrupt jeweler, Shubh, a honest young man, fights to reclaim his family's dignity. With detective Nyamat's help, he steps into a dangerous world of greed and crime to expose the truth.
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.
Floodwaters destroy Satyabati's chance at love. Her son grows up fatherless, searching for answers. When Saranga and Rashmi fall for each other, buried family secrets emerge, testing a patriarch's beliefs.
It’s a classic David vs. Goliath scenario: in the oil and gas strongholds of Louisiana's River Parishes and Appalachia's Rust Belt, where false economic promises and industrial pollution have become the norm, fed-up residents square off against their politicians and big business, proving to be a formidable foe. Thrust into the role of accidental activists, the group exposes how racism, classism, and corruption fuel the systems around them, and channel their collective power to show that ordinary people can fight back – and that giants do fall.
After a heated family confrontation, Otávio runs away from home in the dead of night and crosses the city toward the local gay nightclub. Amid hazy lights and dreamlike encounters, he embarks on a spiritual journey that reshapes the way he sees himself.
