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Apr 2026
A tender, darkly humorous meditation on death, seen through the expressive inhabitants of a rural community.
Inspired by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and other large-scale traumatic events, this project uses the love-lost trope to examine how collective trauma impacts our connection to the land.
The director paints a self-portrait while feeling sad, using the modern paintbrush of TikTok face masks.
Songs that grant us love, hope, and sacrifice. It sings to us a story about the resonance of the heart.
Vaivén follows three generations of beachgoers from sunrise to sunset in Barcelona - a study of patterns, rhythm, and the natural cadence of a day at the beach.
The prophecy foretold of a man who would do a crowd work special with a camera on his head. We must not let this prophecy come to pass.
25 years after leaving, queer Romani photographer Béla Váradi returns to his rural Hungarian home. In spite of deep self-doubt and external resistance, he organises an exhibition of his work, an act akin to an intervention in a country where Béla's identity is subject to state repression.
Anthology!!!
May 2026
One lonely winter weekend, Francisco receives the unexpected visit of Eugenia, a girl much older than him.
In search for companionship, Greg adopts a chimpanzee that holds a dark secret that only his best friend Jacob can unearth.
Short film about a sinister puzzle.
A pair of angry mobsters teach a lesson to a man who bought a pizza using his card.
Murat, who lives in Istanbul, decides to return to his hometown of Cappadocia after being fired from his job. As he plans to start a new business there, his path crosses with his cousins Bedri and Fehmi, who are trying to escape the consequences of a crime they committed. However, the carefree spirit wandering around the town will both prevent Bedri and Fehmi from escaping and support Murat in establishing his new venture.
A look behind the scenes at the last remaining Shaker village.