A babysitter is tasked with taking care of a child with night terrors that make her scream incessantly, but she is told in very explicit terms not to check on the child.
In the southernmost region of Chile, a handful of villagers survive another winter, together with their dogs and cattle, in the midst of a nature as cruel as it is overwhelming.
A man named Ben wakes up with no memory and a gun against his head. Aster, a grizzly and mysterious man, offers Ben the opportunity to join him on the way to sanctuary. On the way to this sanctuary, Aster explains to Ben that the world that he may remember is gone and he must now live the rest of his life hiding from vampires who rule the world.
The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones... There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy... The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that another birth is inevitable in order to free oneself from that weight.
Living at a higher altitude creates a harsh environment for Paul Johnson to farm in, but that doesn't stop him from doing everything in his power to protect the wildlife that lives there, even if it has a significant impact on his own life.
For the past 50 years, a man has been planting baobab trees every year in his village located in western Burkina Faso. At the age of 80 today, he has planted over 3,000 baobab trees that stretch as far as the eye can see. El Hadj Salifou Ouédraogo has spent 2/3 of his life planting baobabs. It's been a struggle and, above all, a life dedicated to ensuring the existence of these trees despite prevailing prejudices. El Hadj Salifou Ouédraogo was misunderstood by the inhabitants of his village when he started planting these majestic and millennia-old trees, which are rare and endangered in the African savannah.
Based on stories from Writer/Director Austin Abbott's own book 'I Tried Calling', this film follows three different men in distress across three different times making three different phone calls. The first: A janitor stuck in a church. The second: A sports gambler who made a mistake. The third: A businessman having a bad Christmas Eve.
What is the connection between a pension reform and motorcycle racing, between the Louvre Museum and tenderness, between a phoenix and the work of a cinematographer, between abandonment and cruelty, between alcohol and memory? There is this film—woven like an essay, like a journey… or perhaps a journey on trial.
A debut short film, using beautiful imagery of places in England—grass, mountains, insects, lakes, wildlife, etcetera, in almost a poetic way; Nostalgic for anyone who has ever lived properly.
A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke in Toronto, Canada) both reflects and contributes to the overall rise in the cost of living in the area by exploring children's relationships to the community spaces around them. The film includes footage from four local parks and playgrounds, personal archival materials, interviews with five South Etobicoke locals, and an art-based workshop at a local junior middle school.
A short fiction film about three queer Brazilian people who love each other and live together in Brussels, Belgium. We follow their journey over the course of a day through the streets of the city and the people they meet along the way. This film is also a portrait of their search for belonging in a foreign land.
Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention center (CRA) in Paris, they have all come to see their loved ones locked up. Lives on hold, awaiting deportation or release. On this stage, these women tell their stories, talk to each other, share their experience, their revolt and their dreams with new visitors. They are the mirror of migrant detention, its reverse view.
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