The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
Shocking Dreams in the Circus is an abstract work of mixed media art, composed of a series of oil paintings. It depicts animals, birds and insects as its protagonists instead of human beings. These animals engage in a soundless dialogue with each other as a letter passes through the film’s frame repeatedly. There are humans portrayed in Shocking Dreams as well and as their behaviours become increasingly animalistic, the behaviours of the animals become ever more human-like. Eventually, the line between the two groups begins to blur.
Natália and Isabela are girlfriends and a sertanejo music duo, just starting out in Belo Horizonte. During a weekend dedicated to creating a new album, the pressure to make something commercially viable and the fear of failure bring out insecurities and resentments. Faced with the conflict between ambition and love, they will have to decide if it is still possible to reconcile their careers with their relationship.
The story is about a young couple who seem to have a peaceful life, but their relationship has deep problems. The woman suffers from a one-sided emotional relationship and makes the last effort to improve it, but he ignores her feelings, has sex with her and treats her like a servant. She becomes disappointed and depressed. He believes that he is a feminist and a defender of
women’s rights. He criticizes physical violence and participates in the international Day of Violence against Women.
On the outskirts of Taipei, there is a leprosy sanatorium built by the Japanese occupiers in 1930 to seclude thousands of patients and maintain sanitary conditions on the land. For the last two decades, Taiwanese authorities have decided to turn the sanatorium into a museum to commemorate the history of leprosy medicine. However, the sanatorium has slowly been destroyed due to constant construction that has overwhelmed the remaining aged patients. To cope with this struggle, they protest and build landscape models with their gnarled hands representing their accurate memories and experiences. They continue to fight against the authorities’ efforts to erase the history of segregation and discrimination and have not given up.
Created by the independent media platform PIN–UP in collaboration with living collectives House of GG, Lupinewood, and Ten of Cups Farm, the film reveals how these communities cultivate a profound sense of home while defying mainstream norms that often exclude queer people. Dream Homes simultaneously challenges and reaffirms the country’s emphasis on freedom, individualism, and ingenuity. Throughout its history, the US has given rise to intentional communities united by shared values, ideals, and domestic space. The film Dream Homes chronicles three contemporary LGBTQIA+ communal living structures across the nation, exploring daily life in these rural and suburban sanctuaries.
Bumi successfully helped a man named Sadewo break free from the grip of his second wife, which had shattered his first marriage. In the midst of his efforts, Bumi encountered Paris, a girl he knew because of a silly misunderstanding between the two. Little did Bumi know that Paris and Sadewo had a connection not only to each other but also to a traumatic event Bumi had experienced in the past.
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