Luis, a private tutor, is invited to a family dinner at the fancy house where he works. What starts as a peaceful evening is soon overshadowed by the conflicts within this dysfunctional family. After a power outage, five masked youths break into the house instilling panic in the place. Luis tries to protect the family, but he quickly finds himself threatened by James, the most violent of the assailants, whose hidden motivations will challenge our understanding of justice.
Malena (31) grew up surrounded by empowered women, although always concerned about hegemonic beauty. This contradiction leads her to review the beauty pageants that marked her life and that of her family in order to answer why, in some way, everyone wants to be a Miss.
Louise Bourgeois: “My initial work was the fear of falling. Then it became the art of falling. How to fall without getting hurt. Later on it is the art of staying aloft.”
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
Made during the early months of a highly mediated, geographically distant but emotionally resonant war, Petrykivka is a videopoetic reconjuring of acts of resistance and folklore within and across the borders, vicariously witnessing and testifying to the transformative possibilities of hope and imagination.
Dutch artist melanie bonajo does ongoing research into the current state of intimacy in a world where capitalism has penetrated deep into the personal sphere and where everything can be commodified.
70 year old Alvin Tan has always been an introvert and he hates the heat of Singapore. His wife however loves going out and loved nature. Using the excuse of Covid he keeps her at home for over a year until she passes away in her sleep one night. Now, when he tries to return home from her funeral he seems to have developed acute claustrophobia and can’t go back up to his apartment by the elevator or the stairs. Roaming around the streets of Singapore Alvin bumps into Alice who works as a sugar baby. They begin to chat and Alvin gets introduced to the world of Sugar Daddies and Babies. He becomes famous amongst them as an old man who can’t go home and pays money to just talk and walk. The film traces his conversations with a Singaporean chinese lady, an Indian lady and a transgender Malay woman through a few nights as he grapples with being able to finally go back home.
Chelsea Jones, a Chicago-based dance instructor whose adoptive parents have long since passed, travels to the small European country of Havenshire over Christmas break in search of her heritage… and maybe even family. Discovering that the only way to get access to information she needs on her quest is via the royal family, she accepts an offer to teach a very reluctant Prince a special Waltz for the traditional Royal Christmas Ball.
Rudrani Chettri has set up a model agency for India’s trans community. But in a world of prejudice, violence and marginalisation, can they win a place on the catwalk?
In the heart of Eurasia, H. discovers humanity's best kept secret (and perhaps its last hope). From San Salvador de Jujuy to the desertic and mountainous confines of the Chinese State; H., generic Argentinean system of programmer police, persecuted and tortured Russian cryptographer, Islamic cyber-terrorist adrift in an unfinished beta desert, disembodied prison guard, mutinous prisoner, a mark carved in the ruins of a very old wall, dust of a planet in retreat, involuntary banner of a rebellion.
Edhi and Alice intimately follows two transitioning women, Edhi and Alice, as they explore the fluidity of their gender identity, in the face of the the disapproving gaze of South Korean society.
Debuting filmmaker Myrid Carten has been filming since she was a child, and when her mother goes missing, she picks up her camera again in response to this new crisis. Her mother Nuala, once a successful social worker, suffered a mental breakdown after the sudden death of her own mother. She shuffles between rehab clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and occasionally the street.
The sequel to Lumière! L'aventure commence / Lumière! The Adventure Begins reveals another hundred Lumière films, all immaculately restored, and aims above all to explore more deeply the history of the invention and affirmation of cinema in the world. This new feature-length film, following the great success and worldwide release of its predecessor, will confirm to audiences everywhere that the roots of the greatest and most beautiful works in the history of cinema lie in its origins, which are both profoundly French and truly international.
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