While living abroad, a queer filmmaker occasionaly returns to his hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon. His quest to confront the city that once rejected him inspires reflections that give the film the character of an urban symphony.
My research on the urban spaces of Vilnius focuses on how urban development and infrastructure decisions reflect the personal and community needs of the residents. How environmental sustainability is taken into account in the creation of a sustainable urban environment: citizens' access to green spaces, leisure areas and their inner well-being in the city. I usecontemporary animation tools to create a dystopian narrative that provokes and raises questions about contemporary urban development processes.
In the wake of the Kangfu Pharmaceutical director's death, three men from very different backgrounds find their lives spiraling into crisis. Desperate for a way out, they join forces to steal the factory’s most prized possession—a legendary century-old wild ginseng—in a daring attempt to change their fates.
Lando has just started working on a ship, where he learns that women come aboard to provide them entertainment each time they’re docked. There, he discovers that the most sought-after girl with 'magical hands,' Marya, happens to be his first love.
How do you shape your future when your past is inescapable? In the stunning backdrop of Mazatlán, Clay embarks on a journey to forget, only to uncover love, redemption, and a renewed will to embrace life once more.
Rodica is a Romanian expat living in Belgium who works hard to support her family. Her love for her children is at once powerful and suffocating. Shot in stark black and white, and with the camera staying within close proximity to its protagonists, the film’s minimalist approach offers a glimpse into the complex intimacies of this family. This is a film about love, fear, anxiety and the complicated emotions that emerge at their intersection.
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?
Karate, a forty-year-old woman without a relationship, contacts ten different women via dating apps from Tinder, OkCupid or Badoo and meets some of them to escape the desert of loneliness in this big city during post-pandemic times of crisis and learns a lot about life, complex relationship structures, loneliness and herself during these very different encounters.
In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. They had become the stakes in a political game: Belarus supposedly guaranteed free passage to the EU, but in Poland the refugees met with pushbacks, forcing them back across the border. Once in Belarus again, they were driven back towards Poland—a horrific stalemate in an inhospitable landscape of treacherous marshes.
Jade, a young woman in higher education, must take care of her completely bedridden mother at home. This condition, along with the resulting isolation, is ruining her life to the extent that it's changing her as a person.
The protagonist of Dajori (mother in Romani) is forty-five-year-old Marie Hučková, who lives with her husband in Varnsdorf. After her younger sister Iveta ends up on the streets with her nine children, she decides to take her own fate and theirs firmly into her own hands and attempts to break out of the vicious circle of poverty that characterises their hometown. This sensitive film, which captures three years of a newly formed family's life together, follows the small joys and daily challenges of caring for others and asks whether a mother's love can overcome the dysfunctional system in which socially excluded localities find themselves.
During a training session, 16-year-old Maxime sees the police arrive to question his coach, who has been accused of sexual abuse by one of the club's children. These accusations are going to crack the shell of silence he had been trying to build.
Drawing on previously unpublished interviews, journals, family footage and propaganda films, The Propagandist tracks the rise and fall of the Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, who lived from 1898 to 1975.
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