Fisherman Urashima Tarō rides a turtle on top of the ocean waves. They then submerge underwater and arrive at a castle, where they are celebrated and greeted by dancing people and octopodes, and a princess. Based on the folktale “Otogi Banashi.”
In 1949, Albert Camus landed in Porto Alegre and wrote in a letter a brief impression of the city: “A luz é bonita. A cidade, feia.” What does this observation reveal about the capital in the late 1940s? And what would he have to say about Porto Alegre today? How do the Lumière brothers’ films and the first footage shot in Rio Grande do Sul respond to the philosopher’s view? But, more importantly, how does the city itself respond to this sentence?
A man arrives at a desolate hotel, its eerie silence wrapping around him like a warning. As he wanders the dimly lit corridors, he finds no sign of life, only a lone, unattended meal waiting in the dining room, which he decides to eat. By nightfall, violent illness takes hold. In a desperate search for help, he staggers through the hotel’s darkness.
Reffie goes to an observatory and notices that the face of the moon is sticking its tongue out at him. As revenge, Reffie crashes a rocket into the moon, turning the moon into a crescent moon.
On the eve of a new millennium and a looming eclipse, 9-year-old May tries to make sense of her mother’s difficult pregnancy while a neighbour plays a sinister speech on an endless loop.
Status: Venezuelan tells the story of one Venezuelan family in Florida trying to stay together — and stay documented — as they navigate the shifting legal immigration landscape under the Trump administration’s policies.
In a quiet garden where time feels suspended, a young dreamer with a broken watch and a plucked flower shares a bench, unknowingly sparking a quiet venture. Shepherded by an enigmatic individual, through time, mortality, and the fragility of life.
The making of a soldier in Peru. A group of young men, some of them teenagers, voluntarily enlists in a rigorous military program within the Peruvian Armed Forces. They are driven by their desire to engage in an ongoing armed conflict in the VRAEM, an area with military intervention framed by a 'war on drugs' policy. They aspire to become ‘men of war’ and embark on a transformative journey from hopeful adventurers into soldiers. Amidst the violence in the secluded military environment in Peru, intimate moments unfold beyond a prejudiced gaze, where compassion and care blossom among them.
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