In the utopia of Sockville, residents are visited daily by their caretaker, Peter Pinky. However, one individual sock, Smiley Steve, starts to suspect something nefarious is afoot, and gathers a band of freedom fighters to rise up against the power.
In the wee small hours, the lives of an extroverted home-based manicurist, a sick fast food employee, a stressed architecture student and a couple of “turros” become entangled in unexpected ways while waiting for the bus
On Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation, a ten-year-old boy watches as screens consume his family. When the lights go out, he glimpses what he’s been missing – and makes a choice that could change everything.
BUNKER TIME! is a nuclear nightmare years in the making: In the early 60s - the height of the Cold War - TV personality 'Auntie Pearle' wrote, directed and starred in a public-access show that aimed to prepare children for the nuclear apocalypse. Deemed too disturbing to air, the show was buried for years; only now, in even MORE disturbing times, is Bunker Time! fit to be unleashed on the public.
ZHANG Weili, the first-ever Asian UFC women’s world champion, secured the UFC strawweight belt with a 42-second TKO victory over the reigning female boxing champion. She successfully defended her title against the legendary fighter Joanna. However, after two back-to-back defeats at the peak of her career, she found herself in a personal slump. Determined to reclaim her identity, she took the bold step of cutting off her long hair.
Growing up, a girl named Kelly has always been following her interests, no matter what others thought. However, by the time she reaches her teenage years, she is extremely tired of feeling different, and everyday comments and laughter from friends don't help. As she desparetely tries to fit in, she almost looses her true self. That's when she hears somethimg that completely changes her mindset.
Death as non-existence, non-being, or the absence of life has been a subject of human interest for millennia. Poets, philosophers, prophets, and hermits have now been replaced by filmmakers, influencers, cryonicists, and evolutionary biologists in the search for the quintessence of life and death. Zoltan Istvan runs a cryonics laboratory and is running for president of the United States with the demand that immortality be included among fundamental human rights. In Russia, a mass festival dedicated to the cult of death is traditionally held. Dāvis Sīmanis' film essay reveals the twists and turns of man's age-old desire for eternal life. It uncovers the metaphorical and fetishistic representations of death and the mechanisms by which we come to terms with our own mortality.
Idak-Idak-Idak is a hybrid-documentary relating the stolen Lombok Treasures with the Sasak diaspora through three generations of women: a daughter, her mother, and her grandmother. Blending full-spectrum cinematography with personal footage, this film moves between Indonesia and the Netherlands to examine colonial legacies, displacement and healing the heart of home. In Sasak, "Idak" can be interpreted as both “heart” and “absence”, becoming a container for memory, loss, and the unseen layers of the self between generations.
An experimental animated documentary built from real conversations with children ages 7 to 9. Through crayon scribbles and paper cutouts, their thoughts on anger, existence and everything in between, reveal a world that’s both funny and profound – a poetic reminder of the wonder and hope we all once held.
A photographer is on a remote island to capture some stock footage. Behind the camera he has several interactions with the locals that leads him to reflect on himself.
In a crowded seaside town in Malta, Dimitrios drifts through a world of concrete, haunted by a mysterious past and detached from the world around him, until he meets Annie. Like him, she has a child she never sees, has suffered love's disappointments, and lives without freedom or companionship. Fate draws them together, yet circumstances pull them apart.
In Sichuan's Liangshan mountains, Yi children grow up between tradition and change. When a father returns from prison seeking redemption, he finds that his daughter dreams of basketball but is torn over her schooling, and his son longs to earn money. As summer ends and walnuts ripen, their separate journeys begin.
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