With Armando Montaño, a lawyer, as our guide and friend, we explored various municipalities in the state of Puebla, in the hills and mountains; we investigated the loss of species, the displacement of communities, and their sociocultural implications in the Puebla region. For Armando, who has been climbing mountains for more than 20 years, the loss of flora and fauna signifies a spiritual void, a weakening of humanity. We observed how these communities, steeped in pre-Hispanic legacies, find refuge and a home in the land and how they watch their homes crumble with increasing frequency.
Set amidst the ethnic violence that erupted in 2023 in Manipur, Northeast India, Fireflies in the Dark explores survival, resilience, and the human cost of civil conflict. Three interwoven stories craft distinct but connected portraits of lives caught in the strife: a pregnant woman struggles to give birth as gunfire surrounds her; a young boy searches for his mother with only a displaced stray calf for companionship; and a cafe owner risks her safety to shelter those fleeing for their lives.
A workplace missive flows into dreamlike self-reflection, permeating hypnotic images of labour at a London fishmonger. Thoughts drift with repetition.
A dying mind starts dreaming for the last time before their death. As the dream continues and the mind simultaneously decays, the dream starts to lose its shape.
Mahiro (32), anxious about losing her eggs, forms relationships with the men in her share house through egg dishes. But as she becomes aware of their strange dreams and her own growing obsession, she begins to confront herself.
On October 17, 1961, 30,000 Algerians demonstrated peacefully in Paris to protest the discriminatory curfew imposed upon them and to demand Algerian independence. Under the authority of the then Prefect of Police, Maurice Papon, the demonstration was brutally repressed, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Algerians. Historians cite eleven thousand arrests, dozens of murders, demonstrators thrown into the Seine, hundreds of expulsions, and just as many complaints that went unanswered; all for a night that would become a blind spot in the national narrative. No investigation, no trial, and certainly no commemoration. The day after the demonstration, Jacques Panijel began filming *October in Paris* to alert the public to the massacre that had just taken place in the streets of Paris. The film was banned by the French authorities. It obtained a distribution license in 1973. It was first shown in theaters in October 2011.
Vicente goes back and forth between prison and society because of problems with alcohol and drugs. But the problem goes further, revealing the psychological disorder that keeps him away from his son and redemption.
A man returns to his dead father's house and finds a projector and a box of reels. Based on the short story "Six Six Six" by Laird Barron.
Bernie de la Renta is an ordinary worker and family man who must make a great sacrifice to belong to a powerful sect.
New York City has always been shaped by migrants. Unsanctioned in a Sanctuary City, collectively created by high school filmmakers from Educational Video Center’s Youth Documentary Workshop, examines what it means to be an immigrant in New York amid increased immigration enforcement and ICE activity under the Trump administration. Focusing on the experiences of street vendors, the young filmmakers explore the relationship between migration, work, community, and belonging while examining how federal immigration policies affect the people whose labor and cultures help make New York City what it is. Through a youth-led lens, Unsanctioned in a Sanctuary City asks what the promise of a “sanctuary city” means when immigrant New Yorkers continue to live and work under the threat of detention and deportation.
Set in the Arizona Territory in 1882, Ringo’s Tally follows infamous outlaw Johnny Ringo as he rides alone through the desert, hunted by the law, haunted by his enemies, and slowly losing control of himself. Drunk, exhausted and stranded after losing his horse, Ringo follows a distant firelight to a lonely campsite, where he meets a mysterious stranger carrying a dime novel written about his life.
Dawson, a submissive people-pleaser, must cut ties with his vanity-ridden friend group led by the conniving Cade.
Jay and Matt move everything out of "Stu's" garage. A road trip of memory ensues.
On the vast, desolate grassland, injured Mongolian rider Sichintu is forced to end his horse-racing career and return home. Faced with the fate that his beloved horse may be sold, the departure of old friends, and uncertainty about the future, he finally makes a choice true to his heart. He leaps onto the horse’s back once more, reuniting with all that he once lost.
When a college student's secret double life as a masked vigilante is discovered by his oldest friend, the two must navigate their evolving bond and the sudden dangers closing in around them.
A man's loving memories of tending to his acerbic mother weave together remembrance, routine, and artistry in a lyrical reflection on familial bonds, loss, and generational connections.
After seemingly ordinary night of recreational drug use triggers a prolonged episode of derealization, Jordan's perception of reality unravels. Familiar places, loved ones, and even his own mind become frighteningly alien.
