Abstract images and written text are the two components of this testimony of domestic violence, physical and psychological, that shaped the narrator’s childhood. It is told by a woman who recalls diffuse memories of a decade of abuse endured by her and her sisters, and their escape from it. The text, which appears on screen sentence by sentence, does not tell the entire story. These are fragments, snippets, shards of a story.
Virginia and Mecha have a seemingly ordinary phone conversation. While chatting about trivial matters, they question each other's memories. As the conversation progresses, something begins to change.
Tomás is a musician who, during his adolescence, shared some of his projects with his brothers, Benja and Santi. After Benja's death, the family lives on with his memories of videos and photos, while Santi and Tomás encourage them to pursue what they always shared: music.
Shelly, a brash, no-nonsense carpenter, is on a mission to empower Black women to reclaim their futures, one home at a time. Through her innovative program, participants learn construction skills and financial literacy to renovate and purchase abandoned row houses in Baltimore. As dilapidated quarters become dream homes, the women’s personal journeys and stories of determination and community offer a powerful blueprint for breaking cycles of poverty and revitalizing neighborhoods from within.
“There were so many of us, but when it all ended, each of us went our own way.” We see footage of the Green Movement, a wave of protests in Iran that began in the summer of 2009, in response to the presidential election fraud in favor of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We see the chaos, the solidarity among the people, and the amazement too: that this is possible, that this is actually happening. Shaky handheld images capture both the energy of the crowd and the panic when shots suddenly ring out. Meanwhile, a voice-over calmly recounts what happened to the people we see.
Marc Isaacs makes a deal with The Synthetic Sincerity Lab, an AI research project affiliated with the University of Southern England. There, researchers are investigating the possibility of teaching AI characters authenticity, using characters from Isaacs’ documentaries to do so. In return, they allow Isaacs to film the process.
A Viennese painter cooks twelve seasonal dishes that reflect the stages of human life, from conception to death. The Cycle of Life is a meditation on the transience of existence and what is eternal.
In a world ravaged by violence and poverty, Rat, a teenage runaway, survives by stealing alongside his friends. On the eve of a typhoon, a betrayal comes to light. Fueled by rage, the boys turn on each other until the storm forces them to confront the fragility of their home and themselves.
Riel, high school student with satanic blood, is a guitarist for heavy metal band. After her band fails to perform at the school talent show, she fell in love with school’s handsome senior, Junhyeok. Junhyeok offers Riel to join his CCM band, but there are procedures to take.
In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, a young man must protect his family from an unknown threat in their remote home. As fear closes in, he confronts both external dangers and the darkness within himself. This haunting folk horror’s ominously beautiful cinematography and deliberate pacing really let the dread seep in.
Kamel, a former boxing champion, swapped fame for a peaceful life with his beloved wife, Samia, and their son, Sabri. But when a simple accident reveals Sabri has a bone tumour, their world is shaken. As their son bravely fights for his life, Kamel and Samia are pushed to their emotional limits. Sabri’s courage inspires, Samia’s hope endures, and Kamel, driven by love and pain, must face his deepest fears. After a painful separation, the family reunites for one final round: a fight not in the ring, but for love, strength, and survival.
Perched on a bridge overlooking the Kamo River in Japan, a filmmaker imagines what their conversations would be if they were all Singaporeans like him.
In sleepless Manila, where dreaming is outsourced to call centres, a fallen star appears on the eve of a woman’s departure to help her and her mother say goodbye.
A shore walk with Else, Sigurður, and Jens Jakob includes many lómar (red-throated divers), among other birds, plants, and rocks. Primarily edited in-camera with a MiniDV camcorder on July 5, 2025.
In 2024, in the city of Manaus, as part of the Olhar do Norte Amazon Film Festival program, an experimental 16mm film workshop was held, taught by filmmaker and photographer Raffaella Rosset, a beautiful immersion in 16mm material. Through experimentation, the participants were able to paint directly onto the 16mm film, creating possibilities, freedom of thought and construction, thus generating a collective film full of feelings. The film also features the Rio Negro and its tributaries, which magically bathe the city of Manaus, which in the Manaós language means “Mother of the Gods”. All hail the magic of cinema.
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