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Hannah is a typical millennial who never imagined she could afford a home until she snags the deal of a lifetime. She invites her friend Robyn over to check out the place and to help her install a second security camera in her backyard when it catches a glimpse of something strange.
Apr 2026
A short documentary style film following a musician turning 18
After the sudden loss of her parents, 12-year-old İrem moves in with her estranged grandmother on a semi-industrial dairy farm. As she witnesses the routine separation of newborn calves from their mothers, İrem becomes increasingly troubled by the quiet violence embedded in everyday practice to gain more milk. This unsettling realization leads her to make a small but radical decision: to free the pregnant cows from the farm, with the help of Halid, an orphan apprenticed to the farm’s veterinarian.
When her husband leaves to pick up dinner, a woman is left home alone where strange noises begin to follow her every move. By the time he returns, something in the house has changed.
A young man struggles to make it across the city to meet his friends for a night out. When every option falls through, the journey forces him to confront what he’s really chasing.
In this atmospheric and metaphysical short film that is truly captivating, two men traverse the forest in search of a mysterious object, while in an abandoned house, a tearful woman remains unmoved by her companion's words of comfort. "Huasi" is one of those films that appeals to the senses more than it speaks to the intellect, yet it still poses a question to us : saving one human being—does that mean saving all of humanity ?
Drawing from institutional and personal archives, this film revisits a colored-only riverside recreation space that existed alongside the celebrated white-only Silver Springs water park, exposing the layered histories of segregation and unequal access to nature and leisure in Jim Crow America.
A crew of 25 moves the largest Richard Serra sculpture in the world across the entire State of Florida.
A young girl, Rika, who lives in the countryside of Japan, is raising a rhino beetle for beetle fights in order to gain friends. But before then, she needs to train and nurture it.
Putorana is a plateau of waterfalls and rock walls. Here, man is not a hero, but a witness. Silence lies not in the absence of sounds, but in their proportionality. Dissolving into presence, you can forget why you came.
A trip up north for the funeral of my grandfather
As part of an independent film anthology project, So Help Me Lord is a personal and intimate story about the relationship between Caio and God, reflecting on himself and the world around him.
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May 2026
Allan becomes really desensitized to messes up things on the internet, and it affects him in a huge way.
Inspired by the real story of Ethan Stables, a young man who plotted a domestic terror attack on a Pride event in Barrow-in-Furness, Stables follows Seb the morning after a hook-up, waking up in a stranger's bed. But who really is the man that he is lying next to?