POV: your son goes viral… on your influencer bestie’s page. And now the whole internet thinks she’s his mom.
A 17 year-old girl is going through a box of her late dad’s belongings with her best friend. Meanwhile, her mum struggles even to get out of bed. As Mia tries to distract herself from her grief, she becomes obsessive about going through the belongings.
A collage of Rickey Dion Rowe II's childhood.
After checking into an Airbnb, Nick is warned never to open the door if someone rings the bell. When he ignores the warning, he encounters a terrifying entity, and becomes part of a cycle passed on to the next guest.
A puppeteer's hand resurrects the missing and lost bodies of history through four stories in this lecture performance.
From the start of the battle for Kostiantynivka to the street by street combat that is still raging on, this film follows the struggle for control of the city over the span of a year. With a special focus on the experience of Ukrainian infantry in the age of drone domination, this documentary shows the new brutal reality of how the war is fought. This is done by following soldiers as they complete missions on one of the most dangerous frontlines of the entire war. As the Russian invasion approaches the heart of unoccupied Donbas, the battle for the city is vital for control of the Donetsk region, which Ukraine refuses to surrender without a fight.
Experimental film by Musa.
A short film about love and longing.
The 1965 Freedom Ride marked a turning point in the Australian civil rights movement when a group of 29 University of Sydney students, led by Charles Perkins, travelled through rural New South Wales to challenge racism and segregation against Aboriginal people. 7 of the Riders were Jewish, including future Chief Justice Jim Spigelman. Intimately observed by director Eliya Cohen, the film documents a commemorative journey in 2025, when Stand Up brought a new generation of Aboriginal and Jewish youth together to recreate the steps of the historic trip, building on the unique allyship between these remarkable communities.
At the height of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests, a young mother fights for her innocence after surviving a near death car accident while mistakenly injuring a police officer.
An inspiring story of determination and the human spirit, Crossings follows 23-year-old Edo Tanas, a three-time SUP foil world champion attempting a world first: a three-day solo foiling journey across the Hawaiian archipelago. With nothing more than his board and paddle, Edo journeys more than 270 miles from Hawaiʻi Island to Kauaʻi. As he encounters dangerous channels most boats avoid and endures unpredictable winds, shifting swells, and the physical toll of returning to the water day after day, nothing is guaranteed. Preparation can get Edo to the starting line. From there, the ocean has a say. Will the conditions align? Can his body withstand three days of relentless effort? Edo sets out alone to connect the islands in an entirely new way.
After a public scandal, Ben, a disgraced college student, hides from accountability until a phone call exposes how far his actions have reached.
Two friends get attacked while housesitting.
Behind every door, a different room of life. A pregnancy to protect, one to terminate, a confused teenager, a disoriented mother. At the family planning clinic, they are all listened to. Every single one. All the Rooms We Need is a radical observational documentary that, for the first time, offers unprecedented access to the family planning clinic at Policlinico of Milan, a place where rights take the form of the faces, bodies, and everyday choices of the doctors who represent an essential public service. Moving freely between ages and timelines, within a single location, the film explores the doubts, fears, courage, laughter, and experiences of women and girls.
The film unfolds over two days in the life of Aashik, a young activist in the Marxist party’s youth wing in Kerala. He and his comrades navigate a world increasingly defined by war, inequality, and political disillusionment—forces that steadily erode Aashik’s mental well-being. Though his personal life offers him little comfort or joy, he remains unwavering in his commitment to political struggle, channeling his turmoil into activism. As tensions escalate and hope feels distant, the film culminates in a powerful final sequence: civil society flooding the streets, united in resistance and demanding a more just future. In this convergence of collective anger and collective hope, Aashik’s world finds the possibility of renewal.
The only son of an Azerbaijani vampire family brings the girls he is in a relationship with home to meet his family.
On a final walk with her terminally ill mother, the filmmaker sees a blossoming tree so beautiful that she says she would like to be one herself. After a long silence, her mother gives only one reply: “When?” Made only a few days before her mother’s death, the film is a poetic and uncompromising essay on farewell.
The plot follows João, a 60-year-old farmer and member of a group of "Penitents", who flees his community carrying a stone. In the city, João encounters paranoia and insomnia; amidst the chaos, he meets someone who tries to convince him to return the stone and reconcile with his people.
