A poignant short documentary featuring three children as they reflect on a life-changing family tragedy: their father’s diagnosis with brain cancer. Told through their eyes, the film explores love, resilience, and the ways young people process illness and uncertainty within a family.
Newly wealthy and disillusioned, Randall, a mobile game developer, asks his old friend Sarah out for dinner to tell her how he actually feels about her. She deflects the conversation, insisting a solution to his crisis of meaning could be to join the dating applications. Heartbroken, Randall follows Sarah’s advice, but this casual and dishonest way of life begins to have dehumanising effects on his mind and body. Without Sarah, however, Randall can’t find it in himself to stop, as he doubles down on the descent into ratty madness.
Two years after the war began, Ukrainian artists unite at the Burning Man festival to build a monumental sculpture from destroyed road signs. Their work reveals hidden pain and transforms trauma into a symbol of resilience and unity.
Ukraine, 2022. Kherson is under Russian occupation. A son involved in the armed underground visits his mother to find out whether she has revealed his location to the Russians. The woman believes the occupation is a form of salvation and that everyone should cooperate. Their argument takes an unexpected turn when the son decides to leave.
A stop-motion animated film created by a Ukrainian artist living in Poland. Based on her own picture book of the same title, it addresses the difficult theme of depression in the family, told from a child’s perspective. The protagonists are a child and a mother struggling with depression. The child notices changes in the mother’s behavior, tries to understand what is happening, looks for ways to help, and at times takes on responsibility.
Moon-sook, 45, begins each day buried under piles of laundry and endless housework. A decade ago, she dreamed of becoming a film director, but her art faded as her reality quietly took hold. She chose motherhood with conviction, fully expecting her intense attachment parenting to last only three months. It never seemed to end. One day, an old piano from her parents' house arrives and is placed squarely in the middle of her living room. Her daughter's unexpected gift stirs Moon-sook's long-forgotten dream, and the quiet afternoons slowly begin to fill with warm music.
An encounter between a young musician and a mysterious young woman who “works” as a scarecrow to “silence the birds,” and likes to spend time at the Armenian cemetery to talk with the dead.
Biggy struggles to maintain his late father’s allotment while grappling with his troubled past. As he tends to the neglected plots, he discovers a path to redemption and an opportunity to honour his father’s legacy.
A tourist arrives in Mexico City ready to consume it out of control. The protagonist's photographic delirium leads him to the most bizarre situations in his desire to get souvenirs.
The art of votive offerings is fading, and with it, its creators, the retableros. We will witness the work of some of these last artisans, masters of a craft deeply rooted in tradition, religious and social identity in Mexico; they will tell us about their lives, their work, and their future.
Interweaving the personal and the collective, this film follows the echoes of a painful past—the burning of Kurdish villages in 1990s Turkey—and explores how these memories, captured through a family album, ripple across generations.
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