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My partner kissed me on the lips and then got into a taxi headed towards the airport where he would get on a plane to Japan for a job that would keep him there for a minimum of two years. Before the taxi was out of sight I texted him, “We can do this, right?” to which he replied, “Big time.” Two days later I started punching holes into found 16mm film as a way to stay grounded. The resulting footage is a symbolic representation of the way I experience anxiety, which is primarily through repetitive, racing thoughts. The audio is a field recording from Shibuya Station, that my partner sent me on his way to work one morning, which felt like a love letter from him. This film is about long distance, communication, affection and also about working through being an anxiously attached adult as a result of living through an unstable childhood.
A woman invites a man inside her home
A pandemic-era thriller about a family living on a small Pennsylvania farm who, while learning to live with the "new normal," discover that they are not the only ones living on the farm.
686 presents Aim For The Bushes, directed and filmed by Oliver Hoblitzelle. The film follows Jake Mageau, Parker White, Dakota Connole, Oscar Weary and Charlie Gnoza as they seek out new and lesser-known spots, approaching each in ways only a skier’s mind can. Aim For The Bushes captures a shared pursuit of creativity, progression and the
After being contacted by documentarians, aristocrat Duke Gawthorpe loses his lucky antique Kazoo. He must go on a mission to try and find it before all hope is lost.
Dhriti finds a mysterious bracelet after which mysterious occurrences happen around her.
A documentary exploring the dying tradition of ancestral Amazigh tattooing in the Djurdjura mountains of Kabylie, Algeria.
An unearthed Polaroid comes with a visitor.
In 1991, 17-year-old Riccy Mabel leaves La Ceiba for Tegucigalpa to train as a teacher, then disappears. Reconstructing her case, the film follows the traces of devastating violence and the questions that remain when the truth emerges too late.
A box shows up at a man’s door. What happens next is shocking. INSTANTLY REGRETS IT!
In a seedy bar, a game of truco pits Vittorio against Amaro, a violent and domineering player. As the stakes and threats escalate, Vittorio activates a hidden recorder. The police burst in, revealing a trap set to capture Amaro.
An unsolved massacre in the director's family that took place when she was not even two years old. It's a film about growing up with war, growing up with fear, growing up with death, and the implications of an unachieved true reconciliation and mourning on our contemporary society.
“I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.” – Elizabeth Jane Howard
Breton surfer Ian Fontaine time travels into the future to become the person he fears: an old-timer who claims everything was better before, in this beautifully observed and wry take on surfing folk lore.
An intimate portrait of resilience, identity and the search for a new sense of self, Stephen Downes opens a window into his oceanic world in this powerful story exploring what lies beyond survival, and the freedom that can be found when we refuse to be defined by our past.