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Good Friday, north of Athens. A young drummer walks out on the far-right politician who keeps him and ends up at a bus stop where every bus that passes reads Out of Service.
The Lower Lusatian village of Jamlitz/Jemjelnica was once a thriving artists’ colony. Later, the Nazis built a concentration camp there, and from 1945 the site served as a Soviet special camp. Now Friederike, the great-granddaughter of an artist, returns, hoping to use her family’s creative legacy to revive the village and heal the wounds of collective memory.
The film revisits the history of the punk rock band Cama de Jornal, following their resistance to time and the challenges faced along a journey directly linked to the consolidation of the punk scene in the city of Vitória da Conquista.
After a fortune-teller predicts her downfall, Aurora, a rising actress, commits a crime in an attempt to prevent it from happening. As she tries to justify her actions, Aurora spirals into guilt and paranoia.
A young woman studying far from home, faces heartbreak, she begins to feel lost in life. She decides go back to home in the countryside make her know what is true love
A year after the death of her best friend, Kali receives a sudden message from the one person she never expected to speak with again, leading her down a rabbit hole of memories and suppressed trauma.
After a dog named Latte mysteriously disappears, a filmmaker pieces together recovered footage and audio diaries to reconstruct the events surrounding the disappearance. The search for answers uncovers something unsettling about the neighborhood cats, and the dog that came back.
Wearing a sparkly mini-dress and heels, performance artist Queezy Babaz enters a bustling Cape Town car racing space and interacts with attendees, offering an intimate observation into queer identity and acceptance within the Coloured community.
When a filmmaker discovers that her paternal grandmother is absent from her family archive and memory, she begins a journey to reclaim her forgotten life. With only a name and a photograph, she pieces together fragments to build a relationship with an irreconcilable past.
In a world where the sun has vanished, Gibraltar holds the last ray of light. Lena, a scientist, confronts her past and a rival as she fights to protect humanity's only remaining hope.
The documentary follows women who gather in Nari Adalats in rural Bihar to address conflicts within their communities. Many once came here with their own disputes and now return to listen and help work things out. The film stays with the Adalat as a space where women sit, listen, question, and mediate in sometimes brutal cases. What emerges is not a fixed idea of justice, but something shaped slowly, collectively, and without clear closure.
Redwood Understory is an exploration of the flora, fauna and fungi of the redwood forest. Filmed in 16mm in extreme close-up, in short bursts, the film gives the feeling of exploring the forest floor on hands and knees, blinking at the wonders illuminated by the shifting light.
A young Danish man travels to Norway to clear out the house of his late mother, confronting the remains and the place. As he moves through unfamiliar surroundings, the film unfolds a story about family tensions, loss and belonging.
A grandson makes a portrait of his grandfather.
Ten years ago, Dr. Hsu discovered a Taiwan cypress bound by steel cables in the mountains, sparking a long rescue journey. The "Tree Seekers" team traveled across Taiwan, developing tree-climbing and cable-removal skills to free giant "cable trees." They rescued Song Yun-Yun, Iron Man, Kingma, and Fat Tiger. Returning to the original tree after a decade, they removed its restraints and named it "Sun Wukong." This film follows a decade-long journey of rescue, memory, and forest connection.
A high school boy experiences his first crush and overthinks every small detail, looking for guidance from his American MMA partner who lives a fast-paced expat lifestyle. After trading all their so-called philosophical advice, both guys face their own bitter failures in love and realize there was never any formula to begin with.
In 1981 Allen Moore completed “The Shepherds of Berneray,” a study of the centuries-old crofting traditions of the island of Berneray, and a portrait of the Gaelic speaking people whose lives reflected the underpinnings of this heritage. Moore has continued a decades-long friendship with the islanders, and beginning in 2016, he spent 10 years revisiting the community to document what traditions have remained and how life has changed on the island. Weaving together 16mm outtakes from the late 1970’s with contemporary HD digital material, “Returning to Berneray” is a personal portrait of a place and a filmmaker’s relationship to it.