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Wootae, who is determined to divorce, meets his estranged wife Jiyeon. Soon, the sound of cicadas begins to find its way into his ears.

Soohyun is a listless piri player, falters while accompanying a naerimgut ritual, bringing the ritual to an abrupt halt. On the verge of walking away, she faces her past self from the time when she pushed herself to train relentlessly despite all her suffering.

A home video of a bathroom remodel circulates deep within the internet.

A documentary by director Tamás Kőszegi and editor-reporter Vera Mérő about the past and present of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party: a project that started as a friend group of artists and is now aiming for major political laurels. The film, born from material originally intended for a fact-finding article, was preceded by a year of research and dozens of interviews with more than twenty speakers.

Inspired by grindhouse cinema and low-budget horror of the 1970s, LA’s Inner Wave present their first feature film, See You When I Get Back. Starring the band, the film follows a struggling group on the brink of burnout, whose pursuit of success takes a supernatural turn. When the band’s frontman discovers a mysterious orb capable of granting three wishes, their dreams suddenly feel within reach—until he realizes every wish comes with a terrifying cost. What unfolds is a comical yet horrifying descent into ambition, consequence, and the price of getting what you want.

A poetically structured documentary that follows 2023-24 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Nicholas Gulig, as he returns to his home state of Wisconsin after nearly two decades away, following five years teaching in Thailand, joins UW-Whitewater as a poetry professor, and moves to Fort Atkinson. Feeling estranged from the state, and in a divided political climate, Gulig finds a steadying presence in the region's ties to lauded 20th century Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker.

Four tales that take place during the same weekend in Montevideo.

While Lhakpa completes his lengthy studies to become a Buddhist monk, his brother, SangBahadur, works as a porter for the international travellers who turn Everest into a tourist hub. Family issues force the youngest to come out of retirement to earn a living. In so doing, he is forced to confront the modern world in all its paradoxical complexity.

In the desert of the American southwest, scientists are simulating the colonisation of Mars. They follow protocols, record data and live according to precise schedules. During their breaks, day-to-day life takes on the appearance of a strange science fiction. How do we imagine life on a planet we've never set foot on?

July 2023. Nagorno-Karabakh has been under siege by Azerbaijan for seven months. As war draws nearer, Comes Chahbazian asks his friend Artziv to f ilm his daily life with his wife Tatev and their five children.

Here we follow the production of a film about debt, where the protagonist is a debt-crippled Pinocchio – crowned the king of debt – ready to do anything to stay in power. In the search for funding for this political satire, the grand fiction on which our economic system is based – between scams and legal loopholes – is revealed.

In a Japanese coastal town haunted by the 2011 tsunami, the filmmaker installs her camera inside the city's taxis to capture conversations between the living and, it turns out, the dead.

Observed by an otherworldly gaze, the modern commercial downtown Los Angeles, immersed in the deepest night, becomes the setting for a sound ritual and visual symphony. Thanks to one man’s dreams, the songs of the many species of birds that once inhabited the area return – back from the time when a river still flowed through it and a native village stood there.

Muddy Currents goes back to the literal source of Israeli domination in the settlements in Palestine. Starting with the capture of water, artist Shadi Habib Allah explores how a people is deprived of its natural and basic resources, formally asking the question: how do we represent the lack of what is necessary?

How do we read the sky—and who taught us? This beautiful exploration of ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil weaves lectures, conversations and community memory into a poetic meditation on knowledge, loss and the many ways humans understand the cosmos.

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