A camera enters the hypermasculine world of bouncers and bodybuilders in Cairo. Beneath the layers of performance and sculpted bodies, is it able to reach a core that is humane and vulnerable?
Converted into a non-human character the protagonist enters a digital space. A territory that is being constantly reshaped and avatars imposed upon the players. Using video game imagery, the film examines the similarities between events in the Balkan corridor and the logic of video game worlds. It explores how certain groups are perceived through virtual environments and dangerous analogies.
Many villages had their own sports clubs, and numerous sporting events also took place in our province. Film footage was regularly shot at these events. This is a compilation of archival footage showcasing these physical activities.
After fiddling around with reality-hopping gadgets, good pals K and 907 embark on an alternate universe bender. The two quickly realise you can't enjoy a multiverse daytrip if you're sitting on unresolved conflict. How ruff.
The World Came Flooding In is an immersive VR documentary reconstructing memories of the eastern Australia floods in 2022, which is representative of similar events that happened recently in various parts of the world.
Aubrey meets Indiana, a wannabe cowboy. When they bond over their unhappy marriages, a romance blooms between the two. But when their husbands find out, could it be the end for both of them?
Four young Cuban artists choose to stay in Cuba amid the country’s largest migration crisis. LA RETAGUARDIA offers an intimate portrait of those who stay behind, watch their loved ones leave, and continue shaping the identity of a generation they fear is fading away.
Aviva is excited to bring James to his first Passover Seder, until her parents admit that grandma has no idea that her potential future grandson-in-law isn’t Jewish. Determined to keep the peace, Aviva’s family attempt to pass James off as ‘one of us’.
An escaped witch performs an incantation. Created as part of Dillon Hammi’s DREAM SUICIDE series.
A desperate director-auteur turns serial killer after discovering the missing piece to her festival submission is the thrill of murder.
A guy spends a night out with his childhood best friend for what seems like the last time.
2012, Bashang Grassland, Hebei in China. A small town smothered by sand and unemployment after the coal mine shuts down. A girl with an intellectual disability lives with her grandmother, holding on to each other. When the grandmother suffers a sudden stroke, the responsibility of her care is passed around among the children, bargained over and reduced to a sum of money. The girl becomes the family's unwanted burden. After an argument, they quietly close the door and leave her on the other side. She walks out into the wasteland alone. For the first time, the world falls silent. Warm evening light wraps around her, a sheep following close behind. She passes through ruined fields and abandoned villages. As night falls, she moves toward a room glowing red in the dark, and the light slowly takes her. Life goes on. Only a girl who once existed slips away, without a sound.
When his car breaks down on the side of the road, a driver in a hurry is forced to stop and sit with the stillness he’s been outrunning.
In the days before Christmas, Carlton Taylor has his life in perfect order. A meticulous textbook editor devoted to facts, structure, and the sanctity of the printed word, he has spent decades doing one thing well. Then a young CEO arrives to drag his longtime publishing house into an AI-driven future, and Carlton discovers exactly how disposable a lifetime of expertise can be.
A woman and her dog hope to meet someone special on an afternoon walk in the forest.
After months of silence, Gabriel wakes to find his ex-boyfriend, Omar, in his kitchen cooking breakfast as if nothing ever happened. As the morning unfolds, unspoken tensions and unresolved feelings rise to the surface, forcing Gabriel to confront whether intimacy can exist without truth, or if some things are better left in the past.
When an all-women* drumming group is founded for the first time in a small town in southern Germany, it throws a 400-year-old children’s and local heritage festival into disarray—and with it raises the question of how tradition, identity, and social change are reconciled.
A documentary filming the intensive training and personal journeys of the five members of the 5th Generation of the Thai idol group CGM48: Chifa, Lewlew, Namphet, Punpon, and Tara.
In the wreckage of a messy divorce, a single-mother poet finds her world upended when her first love resurfaces after twelve years, forcing her to choose between the safety of her new life and the passion of her past.
