A bedridden old man is left alone with his fears and dark memories of his childhood, where he never learned to ride a bike. Nightmares pull him into a terrifying reality, and soon it turns out that the old man is not alone in the room.
Cardinal Thomas is a priest and religious dignitary summoned by Dylan, a tech visionary, to meet his newest creation. He's asked to put on special glasses and go into a glass room, where he meets Ari, an A.I. creation that takes the shape of a young woman. Cardinal Thomas is against artificial intelligence and doesn't understand why he's there. But when Ari proclaims she is a Christian, the cardinal is skeptical but intrigued.
There is the male gaze, the post-colonial gaze, and the anthropocentric gaze — but what about the gaze of youth? A diverse group of older people far over 65 re-perform stereotypical film scenes about older age: scenes of poor health, lack of mental sharpness and sexual invisibility. But do these cinematic images really correspond to their own reality? This documentary emphasizes that there is a need to challenge the dominant 'gaze of youth' and accept more multi-layered perspectives about later life.
The first installment in a film series of unforgettable "distorted" horror videos. Includes "The Unexpected Black Shadow," where a dashcam in a parked car captures something unforeseen, and "The Black Wanderer," among 10 videos that reveal the hidden horrors lurking in everyday life.
Acclaimed journalist Tanya Talaga brings her evocative storytelling from the page to the screen with her search for a long-lost matriarch named Annie, solving an 80-year-old family mystery. With lush cinematography and evocative storytelling, Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga embarks on a deeply personal search to find out what happened to her great-great-grandmother in The Knowing. Co-directors Talaga and Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker Courtney Montour (Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again) use archival footage and intimate interviews to piece together the unknown story of Talaga’s family member, Annie Carpenter. In the first two parts of the four-episode docuseries, they skillfully illustrate how hard it is for Indigenous families to get answers from authorities, especially about those who have entered the residential school or Indian hospital systems. ...
Zoe, an Italian woman, has all the things we’ve been told should make a person happy but she isn’t. On Mardi Gras, a kid dressed up as a wizard grants her three chances to find what she yearns for but if she doesn’t, she will be stuck with him forever. Zoe will find herself living in Ibiza, London and Paris experiencing different versions of Zoe, lifestyles and lovers. Although she won’t find what she was looking for once back home she will realize she has found much more.
The Great Mandrake Magic Convention explores India’s magic tradition, blending performance, culture, and philosophy to reveal magic as both art and a spiritual gateway.
A lone rider from the imaginary state of Illiyeen crosses an empty landscape and their reflections unfold in a poetic meditation on identity and belonging. ‘Illiyeen’ is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Nanna Rebekka and visual artist Eliyah Mesayer. A black and white film work from an imaginary state of the same name, in which a lone rider crosses an empty landscape in a meditation on identity and belonging. The Bedouin term ‘Illiyeen’ refers to a heavenly record or register where the deeds of the righteous are written down and protected. But here, Illiyeen is transformed into an allegorical ‘state of nowhere and nation of everywhere’ beyond geographical or national borders.
Director Arvo Tamminen and actor Tuulikki Paananen visit Hollywood in this documentary film. The two have a look around the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio lot, where they meet MGM's famous lion mascot and some talented elephants. Palm trees sway on the streets of Hollywood, and the narrative captions tell us to watch out for plastic set pieces and vines from a Tarzan film.
A stop-motion psychological comedy set in a run-down 1950s diner. Le Charade follows the final performance of a lonely mime and the psychotic episode that ensues after his imaginary friend breaks up with him and he is forced to re-enter society.
Helju Tauk (1930 - 2005) was a versatile and bright personality, pianist, pedagogue, musicologist, music promoter and one of the founders of the Tallinn Music High School. She was also a dissident and she shared knowledge with her students not only about music, but also about culture and life in general. She experienced the repressions of the KGB, she was banned from teaching and performing, but she bravely continued her activities. In the film, Helju Tauk's friends and students share their memories of her.
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