After the death of her best friend, Cleo tries to carry out her dream: publishing a book of poems. Caught between the pressure of the promise she made and her increasingly fragile relationship with her boyfriend, Arthur, Cleo struggles with grief, longing, and the need for meaning. “Promise Me” is an amateur film about loss, obsession, love, and the fragility of adolescence.
Between parental love, youth welfare offices and bureaucracy, three educators try their hardest to create a temporary home for children. This is not always easy, as the most diverse personalities and their stories clash here. And yet the residential group becomes a kind of surrogate family for the children. At the back of their minds, however, is always the question: for how long?
At a Brooklyn holiday dinner among friends, the guests reveal they are expecting a baby. The celebratory mood quickly turns full on manic when the host’s bread fails to rise, leading to a revelation of deeper issues hidden beneath the surface.
Octavio, a hermit, has visions of an environmental disaster that will destroy the city where his brother lives. Octavio, with the excuse of a false pneumonia, invites him to his isolated house to keep him away from the catastrophe.
Ondine lost her Corsican grandmother when she was a child. Since then, the memory has faded. Through a memory quest combining cooking recipes and artificial intelligence, Ondine sets out in the footsteps of her ancestor, bringing her "digitally back to life" through a few rare photos that remain. A posthumous goodbye that could not have taken place.
Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. Driven by curiosity and a desire to get to know the place, she goes on a journey of discovery and diving. As she discovers where she is, she also discovers herself.
Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a professor at FAMU in Prague. Over ten years of commutes are condensed in dozens of shots of railway tracks, each set to diferent pieces of music ranging from Eduard Artemyev to Kraftwerk. In line with Hills’ decades-spanning investigations of rhythm in film, the mundane Vienna-Prague line is transformed through rapid montage into a musical reverie of geometries in motion; a joyous, personal rif on that cinematic motif par excellence: the train.
No Comply follows the members of the Apax Skate Crew, a collective founded in Montpellier, which brings together women and gender minorities around skateboarding. From Apax sessions to competitions like the FISE and dedicated events like the Chica Chique Sess, the documentary highlights the obstacles women and gender minorities face in a world that is still largely male-dominated.
A day in the life of a trans dancer excluded from her prestigious company in Buenos Aires. As her world and landmarks crumble, she feels herself gradually disappearing.
A drug smuggling crew from Bosnia-Herzegovina faces chaos when a Syrian migrant's explosives attract ISIS terrorists into the country, forcing them into a deadly game of loyalty and survival on the Bosnia and Herzegovina-Croatia border.
In this short drama and intense psychological horror film, the young Arthur demonstrates that it is possible to cope with his problems in the worst possible way.
A lonely doctor in a desolate castle creates a monster to cure his lonesomeness. When the monster discovers the means of his creation, their friendship dissolves into antagonism.
In 1996, in the Chuquisaca Chaco region, a fortuitous event occurred: Unaí was kicked by his mare while changing her shoes. From then on, his life changed radically when he realized he was impotent. Family relationships were so affected that his wife left him and he began a new life in the city of Sucre. A fortuitous event determined the fate of the characters, leading them down paths of heartbreak, misery, and misfortune.
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