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In 2025, after 471 days of war, during a brief ceasefire in Gaza, Firas returns alone to the north to recover his sister and her family from beneath their collapsed home.
Yang Seungwoo's photographs always prompt the same question: "How did he get that close?" For nearly 30 years, he has photographed the homeless, Yakuza, and others no one remembers. His photographs, taken from an almost impossibly close distance, are not the product of reporting but of time spent alongside his subjects. Yang makes a living cooking okonomiyaki on a festival street on the outskirts of Tokyo, while also being the first foreign photographer to win the prestigious Domon Ken Award for documentary photography. But he has an old friend who died without leaving behind a single photograph, and since his death he has carried his camera like a talisman.
A documentary composed of four stories exploring what it means to be a child during war. In this environment war becomes part of everyday life, and childhood becomes fragile and vulnerable.
Fennel is an herb, vegetable, and medicine with a pungent aroma that divides people—some adore it, others despise it. Rarely eaten in Taiwan, it remains a fading memory in the food culture of the Dapu Hakka in Dongshi–Shigang. Shuling returns home to grow and promote fennel, hoping to revive its taste, though many challenges await her...
Investigating a supernatural disturbance, exorcist Paddy Mullins and his team venture into an abandoned military installation where silence is essential… until it isn’t.
After a filmmaker revisits a core childhood memory that sparked his fear of bugs, he decides to taxidermise a dead bee, giving his fear a creative outlet.
A novice documentarian wants a place at film school and sets out to shoot a study of an interesting person. Finding no one at 11 at night, she ends up at the Smolensk Cemetery, at Aleksei Balabanov’s grave. Trying to make a film of it, she comes away with a string of botched sketches: a couple on a first date; a painter who has spent years on a portrait of Balabanov;people who turn up to drink and argue about cinema. It was dark, the camera pointed the wrong way, she had promised not to show a thing, she walked out on her subject. Everything that mattered was not caught on camera, and so it was drawn.
A recently unemployed man, looking for a distraction between job applications, becomes addicted to an online gambling app until it begins taking more than just his money.
A queer auto-narrative between desire, ecstasy and regret. In the club, by the lake or going home at night – one's own judgement is often faster than the question of how one really feels.
After taking a detour on a deserted road, a professional entertainer is pursued by a menacing pick-up truck and must outsmart its relentless driver to survive.
A young couple move into their new home and when they go into the loft and bring down an old teddy bear they unwillingly invite a malevolent demon into their home.
The film follows Fidaa Abu Maryam on her journey to wield storytelling as a psychological shield. By gathering the testimonies of Gazan women, she transforms their narratives into a living archive of feminist memory, defying oblivion and reclaiming the self from the heart of the ruins.
A body undergoes an inevitable transmutation. Through a sensory alchemy, pain becomes the only key to transcend the ego and achieve liberation
An aspiring hitman takes on his first job before realizing the odds are against him.
Narrated by Steve Paikin, Forgotten War explores post-World War II conflicts through the eyes of Canadian veterans. This is an existing TVO-produced series, edited into an hour-long program and includes conflicts in Korea, Afghanistan, Cyprus, and the former Yugoslavia.
The reality becomes as an island, where two pirates are fighting over the last bottle of rum, The one who loses is the one who will remain sober. A surreal world where a pirate battles with himself on a deserted island over the last bottle that washes ashore.
