In Cuba, the nights are very dark indeed when there’s yet another power outage—but as much as possible, life goes on. People find their way around in the pitch dark, cyclists loom out of the blackness, children hang out on the streets by the light of flashlights. At the same time, the disruption appears to create intimacy: a priest takes the opportunity to open the Bible by candlelight and reads about the creation of light and darkness, an aged blind singer plays the guitar for his wife in their bedroom, a boy and his teacher play endless games of chess in the half-light, a fisherman heads calmly into the water with a lantern. Headlights from passing cars flash over houses shrouded in darkness, while the people inside sing and talk under the glow of portable lights.
An immigrant masseuse prone to fantasising about her freedom finds the tedium of her life interrupted—and fulfilled—by a series of calls from a mysterious customer.
An audio-visual diary on the afterlives of encounters with South Asian Muslim migrants in Athens. Traces of exchanges in neighborhood cafés, makeshift mosques and Ramadan evenings – held in fragments of sound, image, and text. Through stories, rituals, and gestures, it listens to echoes of displacement and longing, tracing the ways in which memory, faith and intimacy are held.
This documentary tells the story of two siblings with SMA, Deniz (28) and Can (30), who live bedridden lives with the support of their mother, Aysel. The film draws attention to issues such as social invisibility and the restriction of rights and freedoms, aiming to raise awareness. Through interviews and observations over five days spent with the family in Alaçatı — after they lost their home in Hatay following the Maraş earthquake — the film sheds light on their lives and their perspective on existence.
A documentary on the life and death of Vladimir "Hawk" Đerek, a Croatian soldier whose perseverance in the face of the toughest challenges inspired many of his comrades during the events of the Croatian War of Independence told through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts.
Under the same roof, mother and daughter walk like strangers. Grief, routine, and an artificial intelligence that whispers in the silence distance them. In a world that never stops changing, she must discover if there is still a place where she can find herself.
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