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After encountering two eccentric party girls, a college freshman stumbles through a night filled with horror.
In the minuscule lies the truth, and she reveals itself.
After being pushed to his very limit Gabriel returns home to find a presence eminating from behind his bathroom door. Is this presence really there to help, or to push him further to the brink?
Romance book lover Mabel, caught up in her romantic fantasies, faces a rare possibility of romance, but she realises her “perfect” boyfriend only exists in books.
An ethnographic film split into two halves. The first parodies OpenAI advertisements whilst blending real world events and films from the 70s-90s. The second presents itself as a television transmission that lists information about OpenAI.
On the 24th of June 2024 mum bought me a toaster, and my life has changed forever.
An unlucky dachshund goes about a normal working day.
Lise Billon’s adventure with Fanny Schmutz and Maud Vanpoulle lies at the crossroads of history, dream and reality. Their goal: the first all-female ascent of the Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre in Patagonia. This legendary line, on the world’s most beautiful mountain, is full of exploits and controversies. While this movie reveals an extraordinary achievement, it also explores questions about the place of women in mountaineering and the dreams they are entitled to pursue. Are there still gender-related limits in a discipline where everyone risks their life ?
17-year-old Esme, faced with fear and uncertainty, must shield her 8-year-old baby brother, Juan, from the truth when humanity takes part in separating her family.
A journey of healing
The father fought against the dictatorship in East Germany using his typewriter. His son took active measures. Two forms of resistance and an abyss of silence. Götz Schauder uses video messages to build a bridge between the two men. A painful struggle for the truth begins.
A journey through the universe of musician and composer Vítor Rua, from pop-rock music to opera, passing through repetitive-minimalism and improvised music.
A successful top executive, Yulay, returns to his native village to sell his late father's farm, but becomes entangled in a conflict with a ruthless farmer, Jafar, over a herd of horses. To overcome the challenges and win an equestrian wrestling competition, Yulay brings together three teenagers, for each of whom the sport becomes both a personal challenge and a path to adulthood. Ataysal is a story about how, through hardship, hard work, and a deep connection to one's roots, a person finds themselves and learns to become a source of strength for others. This film is a family adventure drama about returning to one's roots, generational continuity, and the transformative power of mentorship.
Suspecting her missing husband is being held as a political prisoner, a noblewoman disguises herself as a male prison guard. She discovers him weakened in the darkest dungeon, but will she be able to rescue him before it is too late?
A grieving young Claudia wants only one thing: to bring her mother back. She lights the candles, whispers the words and summons the beasts of death - ancient creatures who guard the door between the living and the dead. As the shadows part way, a creature steps forward from the darkness and invites her to play a dangerous game with only one lifeline.
In Southern Bangladesh, hungry wild elephants trapped by the world’s largest refugee camp are rampaging over the land of local farmers. The result is a tense three-way stand-off between the refugees, local Bengalis and indigenous farmers, worsening already strained ethnic tensions. In 2017 Bangladesh opened its arms to nearly a million Rohingya who fled a violent regime of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. But the camp built to house them unknowingly blocked the last migratory corridor for the local elephant population. With no easy escape, a Rohingya refugee, an indigenous farmer, a Bengali forest ranger and the shrinking population of wild elephants find themselves trapped in an impossible fight for land, freedom and a place to call home.
Life is a circle.
