Under the rules, we are in a box, and within the box is one game after another. This movie uses the game as a metaphorical vehicle to explore the conflict between social discipline and self-will.
Walter is convinced he’s a ninja, dedicating his days to training and meditating on the arts of Ninjutsu. His brother Nacho, who financially supports them both, grows increasingly frustrated with Walter’s obsession and urges him to get a "real" job. Tension builds between the two when Nacho confesses he feels ashamed of Walter’s behavior.
A young girl is admitted to a hospital where she is informed of her eligibility for state service. A protracted war has resulted in a demographic crisis, so pursuant to a new law, the girl is obligated to bear children for the good of the nation. The means of encouraging women to join the ranks of childbearers is the manipulation that a nuclear war is imminent, and in the event of such a threat the state provides women with refuge in a special bunker. The news plunges the girl into a nerve-wracking premonition of disaster. Should all this prompt her to forsake the right to manage her own body?
War has ravaged the Ukrainian city of Bucha, whose residents have endured unimaginable hostility and suffering. If hope remains a faint glimmer, the will to survive still shines through in this powerful and unflinching film.
Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.
The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real-time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.
Screening direct from Paris. Eleonora Buratto stars in a new performance of Robert Wilson’s refined staging of Puccini’s classic of a woman seduced and abandoned.
Not-so-good detective Nirmal Narayan and his apprentice Avi find two clients, who don't know each other but happen to be looking for the same missing cat.
A British story of dissent, drawn from the frontlines of climate resistance. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unraveling of our protest rights. The film challenges audiences to question what makes dissent effective and where the line of acceptability is.
In the aftermath of a distancing relationship, a young couple are left to navigate distorted memories and emotional fragmentation in a haunting reflection on transformation and miscommunication.
Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to provide free and temporary shelter for thousands who leave Venezuela on foot, hoping to find better days in other South American countries.
In life, there are good things and important things. And then there are vital things. If you want to survive, you must not let comfort dull your instincts: you must fight for life long before war reaches your doorstep. And if war is already at your door, drawing the curtains won’t help, and it might just happen that the most sensible advice comes from where you least expect it – for example, from a life-experienced parrot.
On the eve of the war in Ukraine, a Russian journalist from pro-Kremlin TV channel brings her rebellious and Westernized teenage daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia.
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