Samuel, desperate to buy his little sister a gift for her birthday, gets pulled into the world of gambling. As he chases quick money, he faces peer pressure and animosity, learning that every win comes with a price and every loss comes with a lesson.
In 2000, Susana de Sousa Dias made Criminal Case 141/53, about the sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima, who resisted a 1950s’ Portuguese law that prohibited nurses from marrying. Supported by a montage of archival material, the film told their story, which was shaped by the dictatorship under Salazar. Now, a quarter of a century later, De Sousa Dias returns with a sequel that questions and reflects on her earlier film. She describes how she first encountered the archive material that led her to the sisters’ story in the early 1990s.
For filmmaker Nordin Lasfar, who grew up in the Netherlands as the child of Moroccan parents, author Paul Bowles opened the door to literature and stories from the land of his forebears. In the 1960s and 70s, Tangier was a base for Western artists and writers of the Beat Generation, among them Bowles.
Alien, an alien life form, is left in a vulnerable position when his ship crash lands on planet Earth. Alien stumbles onto a college campus in hopes of finding food and shelter. It is here where he meets Cal, a night janitor at the school. The two realize despite being different species, they have a lot more in common than they think.
In 1975, in the city of Rosario, Pablo Reinstein was kidnapped and murdered by a gang of amateur criminals made up of Miguel Cazón, Hugo Risiglione, and Luis González. All three were arrested, charged, and sentenced to prison. Years later, upon their release, Cazón and Risiglione were murdered in the same way they had Reinstein. Little was known about González after his release. Although various versions circulated, his fate remains shrouded in mystery.
"Leather Graves" is an experimental 16mm film that explores the permeable boundaries between queer exile and queer utopia. Cruising amongst gravestones engraved with references to queer culture and sexuality, queers defy death by devouring candy-coated blossoms. The queer epitaphs in "Leather Graves" were created with an in-camera double exposure technique using a Bolex camera and a matte-box. The cast and crew are all trans, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and/or femme queer people.
Pavlo, together with his team, is clearing the Ukrainian land of mines. He has found his true calling in this work. Each of the heroes has a personal story connected to demining. Above all, they strive to restore silence to Ukrainian soil and safety to Ukrainian homes.
The story of the Soto family, merchants from Río Piedras who, since the 1920s, built what we now know as Cabrera and how their effort, resilience, and entrepreneurial vision allowed them to survive the major changes and crises of the urban center.
A sculptor dares to do the unthinkable: she combines Thuringian bratwurst and Weimar Classicism in a golden sculpture. Intended as a prize for the Thuringian Film Award, it sparks controversy about art and power—and becomes a symbol of a society caught between tradition, vanity, and political turmoil.
An American hiker, Jack, takes an elderly couple, Björn and Áslaug, hostage in their remote summer cottage in the countryside. Jack believes that Björn is his father whom he has never known, the result of a love affair in the United States. Björn and Áslaug must contend with Jack's unpredictable behavior as they face painful secrets from the past. Jack's demand for a DNA test and his increasingly violent behavior force Björn to spin desperate lies, while Áslaug conceals her own involvement in the dark past that connects them all.
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