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As the holidays approach, Danas returns to the place where he grew up. There, he reunites with a childhood friend, revisits familiar places, and recalls family stories and moments from the past. However, upon returning, he realizes that much has changed. The places and people that once felt close now seem more distant and somewhat unfamiliar.
2012, Bashang Grassland, Hebei in China. A small town smothered by sand and unemployment after the coal mine shuts down. A girl with an intellectual disability lives with her grandmother, holding on to each other. When the grandmother suffers a sudden stroke, the responsibility of her care is passed around among the children, bargained over and reduced to a sum of money. The girl becomes the family's unwanted burden. After an argument, they quietly close the door and leave her on the other side. She walks out into the wasteland alone. For the first time, the world falls silent. Warm evening light wraps around her, a sheep following close behind. She passes through ruined fields and abandoned villages. As night falls, she moves toward a room glowing red in the dark, and the light slowly takes her. Life goes on. Only a girl who once existed slips away, without a sound.
When you think all is lost, how do you get back at the world and make sure your family goes down with it?
The Theatre Festival at the 27th Tadeusz Czacki High School has been held since 1988. For one week, the school becomes a venue for rehearsals and performances....
A man obsesses over a childhood accomplishment.
A portrait of Jesse “Shortbread” Mooney and his life in New York City’s medieval combat community.
A mystery thriller that starts with a disappearance but ends with mind bending twists.
Consumed by everyday routine, the main character gradually stops noticing the beauty of everyday moments. But her son sees the world differently. His ability to imagine and dream, along with memories of her own childhood, help the woman rediscover joy in life and the beauty of the surrounding world.
At the height of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests, a young mother fights for her innocence after surviving a near death car accident while mistakenly injuring a police officer.
Using visual data extracted from found 8mm footage, the film attempts to reconstruct itself—bit by bit, colour by colour, line by line. This process unfolds through data visualization, tracing how images are absorbed, fragmented and remembered.
A man goes for a stroll in the woods and leads himself through an existential odyssey
When his car breaks down on the side of the road, a driver in a hurry is forced to stop and sit with the stillness he’s been outrunning.
The term "erô" refers to sacred knowledge within the context of Afro-Indigenous religions. "Erô" is also the nickname of Erodimar - a fierce and resiliente woman, a heroine of the hinterlands.
Dr. Atkins, the hospital’s expert in removing “foreign objects”, finds himself in a bind when he forgets to get a present for his big wedding anniversary. When the perfect gift presents itself inside a patient, will he be willing to risk it all for love?
In Ouro Preto, longing stirs the scene anew. It weaves memory across the fissures of time. Desire is reborn, vibrant and alive - a city set amidst resonant, enigmatic machines. Fragments of affection, time, desire, and place.
An Author facing the threat of dying tries to put his relationships back in order, from work rivals to love.
A remake of 'The Home Studio - Wes Anderson Study', made an year later.
After a quick taste of freedom, a young nurse arrives home and gets blamed for her grandmother’s death.
Remains Unsaid is a non-film created using a laser engraver. While scanning my late brother’s poetry to disseminate to family, I was fascinated with the overlapping text inherent in the editing process and the visual anomalies created by the Underwood-Olivetti typewriter. This moving image artwork is an assemblage of these artifacts, printed on transparency paper and cut into 16mm strips. The audio was captured from a projection of the film on an Eiki Slim Line.