Armed with his late father's camping gear, a filmmaker returns to his family's Sierra Nevada fishing grounds, where a quest for nostalgia reveals a hidden history of non-native stocking that redefines his childhood memories and the importance of preservation.
A love story between two young Black women. Amari, a nursing student who is dealing with deep depression after losing her brother, and Jazz, an overworked herbalist who is trying to hold their whole world together. What happens when Amari can't seem to get out of bed and Jazz feels like she's losing her grip? Jazz, at her breaking point, decides to join Amari in the bed for days as an attempt to re-ground them both. breaking, broken asks: What happens when you have to meet a loved one a little more than halfway? How far are you willing to go?
Puuluup: Cables in the Car, Still is a humorous and poetic music documentary about two middle-aged musicians who are bringing the long-forgotten Talharpa to world stages. Dry humor, absurd situations, and "neo-zombie-post-folk" music intertwine in a portrait where the glory of the stage clashes with everyday life and fatherhood. The film proves that late success can be the sweetest.
Seventeen-year-old Sara is hiding a secret on a school trip. When the trip spirals out of control and Sara witnesses a classmate’s sexual assault, she and the girl seal a bond that will last forever.
After being heartbroken when his wife Karen leaves him for being overweight and inactive, Niko searches for a way to win back her love. He discovers an ad for a Tai Chi program in China and travels to their dojo, where Master Chi teaches him the discipline and ways of the warrior. Early challenges, including a humiliating tournament loss, test Niko’s determination, but with guidance and self-reflection, he trains harder and masters the art of Tai Chi and other martial skills. Returning to compete, he triumphs in a dramatic tournament victory, proving his dedication and transformation. The film concludes with Niko receiving medals and recognition for his hard work.
After a painful break-up, Amsterdam-based researcher Noa is in mourning. She keeps dreaming about meeting her ex-lover Anna in the dunes by the sea, and about a mysterious glass hammer. When Noa tries to uncover the meaning of this object, she meets Saffron, a fellow lover of literature, poetry and theoretical research.
"Wonder World" follows Bret, a young man who secretly dreams of exploring the big, wide world. Little does he know that after wishing on a falling star one night, his wish is about to come true! With the help of the mischievous wish-fairy, Hailey, Bret is transported to Wonder World, the magical realm where dreams come true. But, as Bret’s about to find out, getting everything you've wished for isn't always all it's cracked up to be…
Transcendental and ecstatic, RELUCESCO is a triptych about sensuality, desire and sex told through bodies and light. Shot on various analogue formats, light paints these merged, writhing figures into being. A poetic and inclusive alternative to pornography that allows the unseen and intangible to become the tantalising places of erotic pleasure.
Watch Me, Torture Me, Tape Me, follow Faceless as he catalogues his stalking, kidnapping and torturing of his victims. His victims range from privileged socialites and the financially desperate promised salvation through a deadly game.
Since childhood, I have carried an imaginary self named “Rachael LEE,” who lives in France. I believed she would fade, but even in my mid-twenties she remains. Refusing to leave her as a dream, I take my camera and leave for France to uncover who “Rachael LEE” — and who I — truly am.
This opera loosely based on the landscape of Mount Sinai – where the body of St Catherine was mystically elevated after her martyrdom – is made in collaboration with score composer Irene Buckley and Colombian-American singer Stephanie Lamprea.
The documentary follows how a former psychiatric hospital that had been abandoned is transformed into a thriving center for art, culture, and mental well-being with the arrival of new tenants. With limited resources, activists in Lapinlahti decide to continue the area's mental health work in a citizen-driven way, allowing the disadvantaged members of society to shine. The place fills up with entrepreneurs, therapists, artists, and associations, and the park area in the city center, closed to Helsinki residents for 170 years, comes to life with cafes, saunas, museums, and bakeries. The road is not easy. The city administration does not seem to recognize the value of the project, and the Lapinlahti community has to fight constantly for its existence. At the heart of the film is the threat of the area being sold to a large real estate investor, as plans are made to build a giant hotel in the park.
An autobiography of Polish artist Malga Kubiak in praise of everything aesthetically in your face, confrontational, against the grist of good bourgeois taste and sense – punk camp trash, tacky, cheesy, cheap and maybe even treacly. An epic ego trip which turns one person’s experience into a tale of many.
When his two daughters were born, the filmmaker felt an urgent need to return to the valley. The valley of his childhood, of happy summers spent in the mountain pastures, but also the valley of a rupture: the downfall of his alcoholic father.
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