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A young woman gets away for a romantic weekend with her new boyfriend and is eager to win over his friends. Some Girl is a film about hidden violence — not only the harm done to one person, but the impact on everyone who chooses not to look too closely.
Every day, Pug, the host of a children’s television show is asked a question, and every day supplies an answer to the viewers at home. However, when Pug is asked the question “Why Do We Exist?” what follows is a journey of music, comedy, and existential dread. Pug struggles to supply his audience with an answer and in the process comes to terms with his own existence and purpose.
Peter Parker is bitten by a spider on a field trip, and he must use his newly found powers to stop a threat to his family.
The film, subsidized by the Tenerife Island Council, explores the relationship between the logic of the universe and musical language. In this work, Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music, travels to the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) to investigate this groundbreaking scientific research. This pioneering discovery reveals that spiral galaxies rotate with the same rhythmic pattern and that their different galactic disks spin in harmony, musically connected to one another, like the instruments of an orchestra. With the help of musicians from different continents, Ciani sets out to compose the score of the cosmos in an unprecedented dialogue between music and astronomy.
In an effort to de-stress his life, Bill gets rid of all his things. Little does he know, he might have just made his life immeasurably more complicated.
A poet’s experience living with chronic vaginal pain.
A young woman leaves messages in a box, for a stranger whom she loves but has never met.
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I made a documentary about Álvaro Cunhal. Now, on the centenary of the 1926 military coup, it seemed only fitting to make one about Salazar. Conceived as a diptych, the film brings together figures such as the housekeeper, the cardinal, the minister of propaganda, the nurse, and the shoeshiner, who—through their memories—recount stories we all believed had not been forgotten.
A psychological portrait of two lovers who have grown to hate one another, who are well beyond their breaking point and must separate. Taking inspiration from aspects of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller's fated marriage as a springboard for content and style, NEVADA is a contemporary experimental study about humans and how exhausting hatred can be, while also examining themes of identity and guilt.
Despite stories of a monster upstream, a young village boy ventures into the creek and discovers the truth behind his town's lore.
When He Leaves is an exploration of memory, heartbreak, and the struggle to move forward after a difficult relationship. The narrative centers on Brie, who navigates the lingering emotional impact of her past relationship with Matthew while dealing with her current, strained dynamic with Ethan
Óscar Pérez, an elite police officer, accuses Nicolás Maduro and his cabinet of running Venezuela as a narco-terrorist enterprise and embarks on a mission to bring them to international justice. The regime hunts him down and executes him in front of the entire nation. Through his own voice, testimonies from his mother, family members, colleagues, and allies, and an archive of evidence comprised of citizen footage, official documents, and expert reports, the documentary traces the journey of this operation to its execution at the hands of state security forces, revealing the true cost of freedom.
Thirtysomething Dom is undergoing therapy. As the Christmas holidays come to an end, he is granted, for the first time in years, the right to spend a day alone with his daughters. A precious day… that he dreads seeing come to an end.
Explore the lived experiences of queer players within roller derby, showcasing the sport’s unique commitment to inclusivity and community.
While the gang fantasizes about money and girls, Melvin searches for identity in the one and only thing he cares about: chess boxing.
A woman wakes up at 3:33 in the morning. What appears to be insomnia reveals a crack in time: fragmented memories, interrupted therapies, and visions of an erased past. As the present fades away, images of her youth as a volunteer in a secret experiment resurface.
Claris and Oli, two fans of a fishing reality show, dream of a different life as they wander through a supermarket that they have turned into their makeshift home. Among the aisles and products, they face the reality of living on the margins.
