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"Mom made it home alive from the street protest again today!" As soon as Zainab Entezar opens the door to her home and walks in, she is greeted by her young son and embraces him. She goes to the women’s street protests as though heading to work, and every time she leaves home, she fears she may never see her son again.
COP31 Climate-Themed Short Film Competition finalist. Synopsis TBA.
Lucy, a young college student who wants to speak with her late brother. When she tries to summon him back for one night, things don't go exactly how they plan to.
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.
A couple and their young daughter live in apparent harmony. But as the girl enters adolescence, she begins to display increasingly uncontrollable and violent behavior, even going so far as to smash furniture in the house or slap her mother. Her parents strive to cope with the situation, remaining united. The short film portrays the contrast between the public and private behavior of the father and his daughter. While the father presents an impeccable, upright, and irreproachable public facade, his daughter, by contrast, reveals a detestable and abhorrent public side. Finally, the arrival of a new family member opens a crack in the household structure, unleashing a chain reaction of irreversible consequences that will alter the nature of their bonds in a profoundly unsettling way.
A patient in a mental hospital confronts his demons through his two therapists: the Good Therapist, and the Bad Therapist
When a young Dominican-American woman uncovers African ancestry through a DNA test, her search for answers about a relative's hidden past forces a reckoning with long-held family beliefs about race, class, and identity.
Familiar, comforting spaces are transformed into surreal realities in this personal experimental film. What it means to live between two homes is examined through a focus on place, memory, and transit.
Film by Mina Akbari
A hospice nurse clocks in for a shift to care for her elderly patient, knowing he doesn't have much time left. What she doesn't know is that today will pull her into a moral decision, challenging her sense of justice, grace, and humanity.
Her mother was gone, a void in her heart. But a tiny fish, a gift from her father, filled it with hope. Until one fateful morning, when the fish was nowhere to be found.
A low-resolution night, a camera dancing the choreography of cruising, the formal voice-over of a horny narrator, and bodies that imprint their absence. It is an ethnography of macho lust in the dark, spanning from the local to the European.
‘When I was six, I fell into a well. Whether I ever got out, I couldn’t say.’ Based on a surrealist prose poem, Ways That I Have Died is one life story told through multiple deaths, following a melancholic and mortality-ridden road towards what it means to be alive.
Directed and produced by 2x Emmy-award winning filmmaker Wayne Chesler, this special documentary follows Irish nutritional scientist Professor John Nolan’s 20-year exploration of the link between powerful antioxidants - Carotenoids - and their effects on nutrition, vision, and brain health. From the marigold fields of Mexico to research labs in Ireland, the Omega-3 enriched Norwegian seas, and elite performance centers in Singapore, the film uncovers breakthrough science behind these incredible nutrients that support how we see, think, and age.
Markus Ethan and Jake Johnson take a chaotic and life-changing detour while on the way to Rosie's Halloween rager.
Contact is a documentary film that chronicles the transformation of an entire skatepark into a playable musical instrument, where skate, BMX, art and music scenes collide.