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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.
Pabli is caught between fiction and reality. Interrupted by different characters, he tries to justify his desires as childhood memories, mother-son fantasies, love and fear of death emerge in a cinema open to the public.
An idyllic morning: spaghetti bubbles on the stove, classical music plays. The calm is broken by a call that sets into motion a surreal day in which the phones keep ringing and mysterious, fascinating women interrupt his domestic routine, to provide strangely profound insights into his life. Three short stories by Haruki Murakami adapted to an Indian setting.
Fairouz Hasan, a Palestinian filmmaker, embarks on an intimate journey to the heart of her memory via the letters she exchanged with her father, who was detained for years in Israeli prisons. Through the images, we watch the unfolding of the emotional and affective impact of this absence, and feel the psychological and political effects of imprisonment.
Carmen returns to the last day she shared with her husband, Eduardo, who died in the Plaza de Mayo bombing, and clings to one last opportunity to torture a memory that she never fully closed.
Along an old country road, where an ancient legend of the sea, wolves, and men lingers, three generations of women come together to face a deep sadness. Something is changing: the time has come to remember buried dreams, mend broken ties, consult the tarot, free themselves from their fate and bring the old legend back to life.
A reunion between brothers descends into a confrontation shaped by memory, guilt, and violence.
Snakes and Surf Breaks follows a daring and amateur team’s 3 month expedition across the Indonesian archipelago in search of a Cobra.
A comedic web series that follows the lives of three twenty-somethings in Los Angeles, who find themselves working at a beet-themed fast food restaurant despite their best efforts and lofty aspirations.
Paralyzed by the fear of the misty unknown, the protagonist was self-imprisoned, only to break free from their confines after confronting the reality of their stagnant self.
Woo-jin heads to Amidong to find a director who went into hiding to receive a video. In the journey, he meets the assistant director and hears about Park Chun-bong. The previous film, "A Carpenter Catching a Whale" was canceled. Woo-jin doesn't believe how a student can make film like it. However, he witnesses a moment when a fantasy that he has denied becomes a reality.
A conceited guitarist, insecure about his mark in the world of music, isolates himself in his apartment to write a masterpiece. But as time passes and inspiration wears thin, his sanity spirals, and his body undergoes an unexpected transition.
Amidst a drought of independently run spaces and DIY venues in the seacoast area, Colin Grady and Nate Pastor put their heads together. Pastor’s, the small ME-based DIY venue would come back, stronger than ever. Despite the hurdles and roadblocks that were thrown their way, the space thrived: people were starving for spaces like this. With each show the turnout grew, breathing life into the garage, and stoking a fire in the minds of the Pastor’s crew. How big could the shows get? Many more hours were spent lovingly assembling this piece weaving in and out of maximalist edits of performances from many of the artists who touched down on that spot of concrete in Berwick, ME, all captured through lo-fi voice memos and the lenses of obsolete cameras, and transferred to Hi8 and MiniDV tapes. Why the old cameras? Because this is something that could happen anywhere and at anytime. This is the story of a garage full of life - and how you could be a part of it.
An ambitious neurosurgeon creates a brain implant that lets him control patients, but his breakthrough turns abusive. As one victim unravels under forced commands, a colleague races to stop the experiment before it becomes deadly.
A ghost hunting crew is faced with their biggest decision - stay true to their authenticity or do whatever it takes to save their show
Forms of the universe, rocky landscapes, and a green and lush human-made city. It originates from a dream I had; it is both mine and from a traveler aboard a spaceship. The dream and traveler belong within the universe of my film Fractais Tropicais. Here, the hopeful and utopian human-centric imaginary of space travel and the future, filled with surveillance, control, and illusions, all fleeting like the images a dream can contain.
Piotr is preparing for an exhibition of his paintings in Ukraine. His closest friend is his twin brother Krzysiek, with whom he keeps in touch only by phone.
Two men - Eren and Serkan - meet years after their failed romance. Eren, who is now a successful writer, still holds hopes for their potential relationship. The meeting which at first sight looks like a reunion of old friends, turns into the reflection of their old connection, and discovery of what place their past relationship holds in their lives.
After carrying out a murder, the killer hides the body in the back of his car. However, he is tormented by the sound of the victim's knocking, which grows louder and louder until his paranoia gets the better of him.
