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Plot TBA; inspired by the real-life scandal surrounding the self-styled godman Ashok Kharat alias 'Captain'.
Follows a writer who begins getting calls from a government appointed censor who is tasked with monitoring his online output for ‘public security purposes’ and has a front row seat to his every move. Within that space—where things are created, consumed, edited and debated—a strange and unlikely connection occurs.
Adam and two other men find themselves trapped in the hold of a ship. While the prisoners desperately search for a way out, the discovery of a strange breach in the wall will upend each of their beliefs.
In a quiet Maharashtrian village, Janardan, a halgi player, inherits a family tradition he no longer believes in. For generations, his family has lived off the rhythm of the drum, but for him every beat carries caste, shame and suffocation. As events push him away from the halgi, his silence grows louder, until destiny pulls him back.
Anya, who has been living in Germany since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, returns to Ukraine and visits her ex-boyfriend at his photo lab. She already knows there is another woman in his life. As they spend the evening together, what has remained unspoken between them slowly comes to the surface. When Anya tries to leave, he stops her, and for a brief moment they fall back into a familiar intimacy, despite everything that now stands between them.
Choi Se-dam's grandmother, Yoon Young-ja, wanted to write a novel titled A Woman Dancing on the Waves. She spent her life as a shaman, building the family up from nothing. But she never managed to write the novel and eventually forgot who the 'woman dancing on the waves' was. Making her grandmother, who is gradually losing her memory, the protagonist, Choi unfolds a strange and remarkable family history.
Sauro Cantafame is “the techie”: he drives solo through a lunar southern landscape in his Ape Car, in a borderland between the real and the absurd. His mission? Implant mechanical hearts in deceased oldsters, so their families can pretend they’re still alive and cash their pension checks. He offers a ride to a fragile kid in danger, whose name says it all, as far as his prospects are concerned: Giocondo Infelice. But that gesture raises the hackles of Vito ‘a scimmia, the crime lord who has full control over the territory. Cantafame teaches the kid his strange trade in death, craft, and discontent; while Giocondo breaks out of his shell and finally finds the father he never had. But Cantafame has a few skeletons in his closet and a negative karma to fulfill, which will goad him to defy Vito in order to save his young charge.
Following the sudden death of their third newborn child, the Rangel family takes refuge in their lakeside home. Desperate to escape reality, Olga suffers a psychotic episode and begins to suspect that her husband and children have been replaced by imposters. Convinced that her real family has been abducted, she will stop at nothing to get them back.
In a strange, purgatory-like room where workers exchange small bundles for coins, Prudence notices an elderly blind woman waiting in line. She offers to help, but her seemingly good deed soon takes an unexpected turn.
In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster embarked on a global expedition in a Land Rover they called 'The Grizzly Torque' – a journey that ignited a deep love of our planet and set in motion a powerful story of environmental activism though art and science.
Papa Smurf is honored to be invited by the great Homnibus to take part, with other witches and wizards, in the creation of the philosopher’s stone.
Stageplay based on Touken Ranbu.
Canadian Jessi's search for her Romanian birth mother reveals a sister adopted under the same name and a web of lies.
Through the medium of an intimate video diary, Mariana Macháňová captures her family’s grief as her mother passes away. For the director, the camera becomes a tool for both therapy and detachment. She records her wanderings through sterile hospital corridors, taking perhaps her last selfie with her mother at her hospital bedside, and the scattering of her ashes. Coming to terms with the loss also gives rise to reflections on the ethics of such filming. The filmmaker asks herself whether it is acceptable to enter moments of greatest vulnerability with a camera, if the act of filming itself helps to transform fleeting fragments into something lasting and thus to process the mourning. “So I decided I’d heal myself with a film”
Traveling salesman is desperate to return home after surviving a run-in with a psychotic killer, only to be stalked relentlessly by him across the country and framed for several murders along the way. Kirk plays Max, a struggling single Mom bartender with a dark past who has a brief encounter with the salesman which changes her life forever.
Spirit medium Shih Han traverses the Bardo to guide a wandering soul, discovering a chilling truth: the elder ordered his son Wei to freeze his corpse for pension money, trapping his spirit in a cycle of ascending and descending. In helping the spirit break free from this sacrificial attachment, Shih Han also finds the path to heal his own unresolved past.
A young teenager lives in a house with The Clockmaker. When a new friend comes to life, they discover The Clockmaker is not as altruistic as he seems.
A Chartered Accountant who acknowledges that his death is close at hand and becomes isolated in life altogether, loses his mental state and seeks refuge in the pleasure of eliminating the happiness of people around him forever, with a pinch of sadistic desires.
“A Shonda” is a short ritual art film filmed in the holy days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two transsexual Jews commune with the dead, reimagine gendered cultural practices, and attempt to atone for the sins committed in their name.
Gustavo Caymaris is a Taxi Driver in Montevideo, Uruguay.