We all know photos with painted-over or cut-out faces. The repeatedly inserted hand that works on family pictures with pens and other utensils seems like a refrain. The attempts at eradication are audible. They are a dissonance transferred to the body. Scratch, distort, remove. Usually a woman’s head.
Sayed Al-Jada decides to deceive his five children by selling the pension they share with forged documents, claiming that he will travel to meet with investors. During his absence, one of his sons, Majahid, who manages the pension, tries to host a musical event to generate profits that will impress his father. At the same time, another son, Adel, who is a singer, attempts to invite an important producer to listen to his performance. Meanwhile, the daughter, Aida, a feminist activist, invites some of her friends and followers to film a movie about harassment. Additionally, another son, Essam, a religious extremist, hosts a leader of his group who brings along a mysterious individual to the pension. Meanwhile, the final son, Bastardo, attempts to rob a neighboring bank through a tunnel he dug in the basement of the pension. However, all these events become entangled and complicated due to an unexpected surprise that catches everyone off guard.
Karsten and Petra are on vacation in Malta when they find a mysterious golden ring. Together, they try to find the owner, but what if the ring is from Atlantis?
Berlin, 1943: Margot Friedländer's mother and her brother Ralph are arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the East. Unaware of her family's whereabouts, young Margot hides in the Berlin underground. After 15 months, she is caught and deported to Theresienstadt. She hopes to finally see Ralph and her mother again, but both have already been deported to Auschwitz.
The film One Day of an E-sports Player captures a single day in the life of an e-sports player who competes in the computer game League of Legends, often shortened to LoL. In an entertaining way, this film shows the challenges the protagonist faces both in the game and in his everyday life.
When my dad became seriously ill, he stopped working and took up fishing. Fish swim in their microcosm, unaware they could become prey. The pond is both a constraint and a contemplative mirror, in which the father-daughter relationship occasionally glimmers. And the observer becomes the observed.
"When he’s hungry, thirsty, or crying, I’m here. We’re together 24/7, and I’m everything to him. It’s exhausting. Who can I tell without hearing, "You wanted a child, so take care of it?" And what about my partner? I think I’m having a motherhood crisis." – Lenka Čápová
Confusion, uncertainty, and the desire to find direction in a world full of possibilities. All of this arises when dreams begin to blur into reality, and you find yourself in a quarter-life crisis. The author shares her own feelings during her twenties as she faces critical life decisions.
Literature and tales of the military dependents' villages leave a unique and precious character in Taiwanese history since the Great Retreat in 1949. The people have gradually formed a culture within the villages. To dive into the richness of military dependents' villages, the film interviews many prominent Taiwanese writers who grew up in the first and second generation of military dependents' villages and quotes extensively from literary passages, creating the reappearance of the unforgettable lives in the villages and of the cultures of Waishengren.
During the first wave of Covid-19, four young Ukrainian filmmakers retreat to the countryside to work on their artistic projects. Where they were looking for peace and escape from pandemic restrictions, they end up finding much more. The film diary, in which the director's voice speaks to the overman within, becomes not only a record of creative development and search, but also a description of the painful journey to the knowledge of one's inner self. The separation does not only refer to the spatial and relational distance between individuals, but can also be understood in the coordinates of the separation of individual layers of the personality in the process of self-observation.
Shweta, facing caste rejection, elopes to Mumbai with her husband. Amid city chaos, she battles father-in-law’s prejudice, proving her worth lies in talent, not lineage. A humorous, resilient quest for self-identity.
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