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‘Nobody Here’ traces the story of Vaporwave and its evolution into the internet’s most aesthetic and celebrated micro-genre — from its origins in obscure online communities to its emergence in the mainstream consciousness.
Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities. Yuri's brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.
September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin
Upcoming short film from Louise Dodge in collaboration with Bus Stop Films participants.
Tessa is a brilliant British defence barrister dominating London’s ruthless courtrooms. Fierce, witty, and self-made, she defends men accused of sexual assault — until she is assaulted herself by a colleague from a powerful legal dynasty. Suddenly, the system she trusted turns against her. As she faces the same tactics she once used in court, Tessa’s faith in justice unravels. Once in control, now exposed and disbelieved, she must fight to reclaim her voice and sense of self.
Driven by hunger through a forest of strange cryptids, a determined Wolpertinger discovers that it's a trap to only look out for himself because it keeps the creatures predictable. Seen from a new perspective, he learns that connection, not isolation, offers him the best chance of survival.
The students are having a school dance in Winterstein. Finja is glad that Sydney the koala is looking after her younger siblings. Outsider Zack revealed the secret of the magical animals to a stranger online - and now he’s been given Zeki the porcupine. Will the class manage to catch the animal thief together?
Pietro Ximenes, through an old Cyber-shot camera belonging to his mother, records his last year with Luiz, João Matheus, Yan, Daniel, Pedro, Arthur Mattos, Davi, Ana, Antônia and Laura studying together
Two brothers are roped into a scheme to rob from the rich and give to the poor, only to find their victims are not who they think they are.
The hugely popular manga "Chainsaw Man" by Tatsuki Fujimoto is being adapted into a stage play! The highly anticipated second installment "Reze Arc."
In a cold future, where society is controlled by technology. Ethan, has a flash of his life before and starts to question what it means to truly live.
A man who fled his country after the war broke out, living in physical safety but emotional exile. /haunted by trauma and the people he lost, he moves through his day with an invisible weight loss he can not name and guilt he can not face. The film follows his life while he remains suspended between what he can not face and what he can not feel.
A sequel to Rupert v Nixon and the end for the RNCU
Through both personal and political conflicts, the film tells the story of emperor Diocletian's rise to power and his complicated place in ancient Rome's court politics.
An 11-year-old girl discovers she can see the dead and, in the haunting light of summer, sacrifices reality to search for her dead mother.
