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During a reluctant visit to his mother's house with his son, a Deaf father (played by James Caverly) must confront a toxic family dynamic and find a better way forward for their future.
When young Jonah is taken to a faith healer to cure his Deafness, his parents must face a new reality. Featuring Sandra Mae Frank in a supporting role.
As an exercise in political influence, film schools in the socialist Eastern bloc opened their doors to students from the Global South. While dozens of films from that period remain in the Lodz Film School archives, the offspring of those visitors and their Polish partners are more visible, and now claim the acknowledgment denied to the images, in a racist Europe.
The Yapori Show follows the adventures of Yapori and Darkpori, who, in addition to facing the dilemmas of adolescence, must fight powerful enemies. *A feature-length compilation of all episodes of The Yapori Show ever produced.
JK enters the Library in search of a book but he quickly discovers that his wishes might not be that simple. Halls and corridors multiply like a labyrinth without a way out, stairs lead to impossible places, and the employees of the Library don't offer any help. The Library seems to watch over and guide him against his will. Every attempt to move forward traps him, plunging him further into the chaos of an absurd system. What began as a small desire turns into a mental and sensory odyssey, where JK will even have to resort to violence. What is your Library?
Yakutia, the first half of the 19th century. Bishop Ambrose goes to the snowy steppe to the newly baptized Tungus, accompanied by the disgraced monk Cyriacus, who once refused to baptize "foreigners" en masse. On the way, they are overtaken by a blizzard. The pagan guide Harpoon saves the bishop's life, and the newly baptized Stepan throws Cyriacus to freeze. The death of the elder becomes a miracle of unity: unbaptized Tunguses themselves come to the faith of "Cyriacus", and Ambrose finally sees the truth — about the equality of all before God and love, which knows no difference between baptized and pagans.
Siham and Hafida are two chikha performers who sing traditional Moroccan Aita, a style of music which is a historical symbol of resistance against French colonisation. Several generations apart, they are also bitter rivals. Bennani stages this melodrama with a mischievous touch, in the style of reality TV.
Hovering between the real and the imagined, a filmmaker traces their fragmented sense of place. Moving through maps, projections, digital simulations, they explore how ways of seeing shape how we belong. A search for position that is never fixed, but always felt in relation. A journey and meditation on placelessness, image-making, perspective and the quiet politics of how we relate to our surroundings.
After the death of his brother, a man takes in the widow, her young daughter, and the house they once shared. What appears to be an act of responsibility slowly turns into quiet cruelty
New movie by Daniel Golding, J. Mitchell Johnson.
In the Guaraní community of Yacuy, the arete-guasu brings together harvest, gratitude, and collective memory. Through music, dance, and shared rituals, the celebration renews the bond with the land, the river, and the ancestors.
An intimate portrait of women who transform inherited pain into memory and memory into a form of healing. When the women of a family dare to speak out, the possibility emerges to heal together and seek justice.
Francisco, a 35-year-old filmmaker who secretly works for a delivery app, has a date in Belgrano with Belén, 28, whom he has just met. As he tries to impress her, they both discover a deep and unexpected connection.
A girl survives among the wreckage left behind by an invading army, searching for shelter and food. But when she accidentally kills a bird, the fragile emotional balance that sustained her begins to crumble.
When two high school seniors are caught after committing a stupid prank, they recount their elaborate heist. Unbeknownst to them, the prank runs deeper than they imagined.
The film, through experimental storytelling techniques, penetrates the psychic world of two people who are trying to heal their broken relationship. Condemned to run futilely and endlessly on a black and white split screen, atonement and reconnection are transformed more and more into an elusive dream.
Zun-Tou Elementary School stood adjacent to Taoyuan International Airport. Everything on campus seemed to revolve around airplanes and the airport... yet it was precisely this proximity that ultimately led to the school’s disappearance. Through the interplay of sound and image, the film reconstructs a single day at the elementary school, piecing together the contours of childhood within its grounds. At the same time, the school serves as a microcosm, reflecting the broader erasure of landscapes under the Taoyuan Aerotropolis development.
Maya, a 40-year-old trans woman, returns to her hometown after years away to reunite with her ailing mother. While the town searches for the missing image of the Virgin, a walk between the two women opens the possibility of an intimate encounter, a connection between memory and the sacred.
Sissi is at El Imperio pizzeria when a man kisses her boots. On her way to the Obelisk, her gaze fragments and the city transforms: Sissi appears on a throne, observing everything from above, mistress of her own empire.
Eva, the eldest of three siblings, lives in Villa 21-24 in Barracas. She dropped out of school and goes out to collect cardboard with her father, Ramón. While caring for her siblings as if she were their mother, she undergoes a change that transforms her life.
