When Mzia was younger, and Georgia had just gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, she fought as a sniper against Russian aggression in Abkhasia. Now in the autumn of her life, she manages an elevator in a Brutalist-style apartment block in Tbilisi. The elevator is there to serve the residents, but others can use it to access a labyrinthine construction and skybridge leading to a higher part of the neighborhood.
In the hilly city of Chongqing, a painter searches for the old apartment where he and his parents used to live. He asks local residents for directions, walks through narrow passages between buildings, and calls his 90-year-old mother for confirmation. But the city has changed beyond recognition. Behind the camera, his daughter documents his journey.
As Joy is packing her luggage for moving out from home, in her bedroom where she grows up, she accidentally digs out some “pieces” of memories. She has a time facing her fond memories, regrets and traumas, and finally putting the pieces all together, leaving the house with the courage and hope of starting a new life.
In the oldest forest in Europe, the border between Poland and Belarus is marked by a large fence. Its purpose is to make it harder for refugees to enter the European Union. But what kind of collateral damage does it cause? The short film Bloodline chooses a clever, thought-provoking perspective, focusing not on humans, but on a bison.
“Can I be nostalgic about something I’ve never experienced?” asks debut filmmaker Pranami Koch. She has in mind her grandmother, a person she never knew who belonged to the Koches, a people in India with their own culture and traditions. In her search for connection and identity, Pranami travels to the countryside and immerses herself in the Koch community.
Camila who suffers from amnesia. She replaced the emptiness with an imaginary world where a giant fish is her guardian. She escapes from a blurry past, but when the boy she loves disappears, she must go look for him and will thus discover what is hidden between dreams, the fantastic, the past and the future. FISHGIRL is an urban and fantastic portrait, which inhabits a dimension that is both tragic and dazzling, tender and dark.
A Hispanic border agent considers his role in a system that keeps people like him on one side, while others risk their lives for a better future in the United States.
The flow of migration from South to North America is not only a recent phenomenon. In the early 1980s, for example, Ecuadorians fled their country from the war with Peru, or escaped the violence in the border region by heading to the north of the country. Among them were the family of Wil Paucar Calle.
A young man has been accused of theft. We see him behind barbed wire, falling in slow motion onto the grass. The artist Ansuya Blom alternates this powerful image and others that she shot in Suriname, such as a group of pelicans screeching around a fishing boat in Paramaribo, with 8 mm recordings of a first communion procession from her family archive.
In post-war Italy, the family of typical housewife Delia is in turmoil over the impending engagement of beloved firstborn Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to face her abusive husband and imagine a better future.
A working class family move into a new condo purchased after 11 years of hard work. They throw a housewarming party to show his co-workers when overnight a heavy downpour creates an extremely deep sinkhole that engulfs the entire building.
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Bound by an unbreakable promise, Lu and Ika pledge to remain inseparable. But as they step into the opulent world of the Prussian court through their marriages, their oath faces a formidable trial.
Erik van Lieshout worked in Deurne Peel on the project 'De Gloeiige' (2024) in which he investigates the gap between city and countryside. Politics, craft, land art and myths of the landscape are intertwined in a raw montage. For the shooting of the film, Van Lieshout returned to his native village of Deurne and spent a year there. In addition to filming, he also made sculptures of eggs and the almost five-meter-high rabbit made of hay
Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.
Its summer and Yasmin spends her days at her family’s house in the countryside. Together with her boyfriend and his children, she goes on trips to the lake, life seems carefree. But it soon becomes clear that tensions are smoldering under the shimmering summer heat: what begins as an atmospherically narrated family drama, increasingly slides into the surreal.
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