Danny and her roommate Christine go to check up on one of their friends, who has recently been suffering from suicidal thoughts. When they arrive at his home, they are all terrorized by a group of sentient dolls.
The winters in the Siberian taiga may be long, but at least Moscow is far away. In the early 1990s, a religious community lead by former traffic cop Sergei Torop settled in the endless landscape at the foot of the eastern Sayan Mountains. After a religious revival he calls himself Vissarion, wears flowing robes, long hair and acts as the Son of God on earth. Misty-coloured portraits on which “the Teacher” gazes obliviously into the distance hang in the homes of his followers. Together they have created the model town of “Abode of Dawn”, also called “Sun City” by the locals, to build a new society.
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.
At once emotionally devastating and deeply heartwarming, Ondi Timoner’s latest documentary follows the day to day lives of the residents at a hospice care center for the unhoused located in Salt Lake City. Crafted with immense compassion, The Inn Between forces us to identify with its subjects, exposing how close any of us really are to the rough living circumstances that thousands of Americans find themselves in.The Inn Between is the only end of life facility for the homeless in America, where miracles happen - as the once-unsheltered are treated with the humanity and community we all deserve.
It's the fall of 1980-Something. Seeking to uncover the fate of those slain before them, Freddy Stone, Chris Scendo, Penny Moneysworth, Morganna Midnight, and Mike Calculus venture out into the accursed Hades Woods. Once there, they discover an ancient text consumed by witchcraft deep in the Groundskeeper's cabin: The Book of Hades. When they look to the book for answers, they soon learn that the one behind the massacre that occurred just months prior was none other than HELLFIRE HADES himself! They may find the answers they were looking for, but that comes with conjuring the terrifying return of the slayer of saints, the demon lord from another realm, ready for his attack on the 1980’s once again. While hoping the spellbound pages give them a fighting chance at survival, what they unleash is nothing short of bewitchment, devilry, and all sorts of voodoo.
God Make an Artist is a short documentary which chronicles the life and work of sculptor and Mississippi native, Benjamin Barnes Watts. The film, 3 years in production, follows Watts through every stage during the creation of an original commissioned statue for the national headquarters of Kappa Sigma in Charlottesville Virginia. The piece also serves to document Ben’s journey from childhood, his faith, and the highs and lows of his career. God Make Me an Artist is an intimate portrait of a celebrated sculptor and the spirit that drives him.
"Na Trafaria" is an alternative mapping methodology that uses cinema as a cartographic tool. A heterogeneous and fragmented territory, Trafaria is made up of several organisms, here placed in relationship by the cinematic mechanism. This version, exclusively assembled for screening at Doclisboa 2024, traces just one possible route (among many others) through the place.
Wildlife photographer Igor Metelsky embarks on a journey to find a tiger in the Ussuri taiga. Along the way, he discovers the incredible wildlife of the Far East. But how can the balance be maintained between the needs of people and preserving this extraordinary natural environment?
As one wanders through the garden on a leisure tour, they find what has been lost in the mists of light and shadow. July Twenty-seventh, Tour of Suzhou Gardens offers a personal path from the aesthetics of experimental cinema to a conversation within Chinese poetic tradition.
When a glaciologist returns to her small town to assess the local glacier for potential land development, she finds herself confronted by her estranged eco-activist mother, who will stop at nothing to save the glacier.
The mourning has passed, it is not time to lament, but to celebrate, to wait for the rituals to work and for our dead to come, but how will they know the way if it is increasingly diffused?
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