Gastón, an agronomist from Buenos Aires, settles in a thriving rural area to dedicate himself to his activity as a crop advisor. The struggle for his 16-year-old daughter, Vera, and his wife to adapt to the new life puts him in front of a dilemma that shakes the foundations of his work. What seemed like a new beginning becomes a present full of contradictions.
A song is heard in the distance. It comes from the Hekeng village, famous for its ancient earthen buildings, also called tulou. It is where the last original Hakka families live amidst the exodus of those looking for a more modern environment. Among them there is Zhang Zhouyin, an elderly man concerned about the state of the village's temple; or her daughter-in-law, Wei Yi, who spends her entire day guiding tourists through these awe-inspiring houses. And then there’s young Zhang Weibo, her son, who manages to find joy even in the simplest of things... Hekeng: a place frozen in time whose songs have endured for centuries.
Through the conversations between a grandmother and grandchild living in refuge, we witness the complexity of raising a new generation in displacement.
Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.
The story begins with three teens coming to Bangalore for their engineering education and getting involved in a fight with seniors. They find a local gangster named Ranga to help them take revenge. The events, after meeting him, takes them through a journey, which seemed like a dream at first but soon turned into a nightmare.
Based on real events, Kay is a tough-as-nails investigative reporter, and goes undercover at a home for the disabled based on a tip about staff abuse of the residents. She not only corroborates the frightening allegations but also discovers how disastrously flawed Hong Kong’s health care system is, especially for those who cannot care for themselves. However, after her story breaks, further unspeakable truths are revealed leading Kay on a dire crusade for justice.
Created by burying a 16mm print of "Disco Fever" (1978) in the earth and allowing the film stock to begin its decomposition process, "Decomp Disco" queers the gazes of its characters, imagining lust in the glances of two women on a disco-fueled jumbo jet. Through repetition and degradation, this found footage film reclaims and reimagines a campy piece of film history straight from the dust bin.
Thrown between reality and false Catholic narratives, Luna questions her sanity, exploring independence moving into her first ever apartment, as each full moon brings on a wave of terror she can't control.
Set in 1542, Marguerite de La Rocque was judged and labeled by the French aristocracy as a snob, but after she is stranded on The Isle of Demons, Marguerite breaks free of the stereotypes that have defined her. Based on a real woman who became a legend.
All Stella wants is take over her small, family run restaurant in the US, and marry her long-term boyfriend. But when everything she thought was certain falls apart, and her best friend has an opening for a chef in a new London restaurant, can this beautiful city and a persistent food critic who has as much to gain from her success as she does, change Stella’s long held life perspectives?
Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he chooses career over love. Years later, during his mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
Years after an alien invasion nearly extinguished the human race, three soldiers who survived on a secret moon base are sent to Earth to liberate the survivors from the Sentinel and its army and reclaim Earth at any cost.
Marco, Guido, Leo, Luisa, Gaelle and Mattia have different mothers, they are not all biological children of the same father but they have a single true father figure of reference: Manfredi Alicante. When the latter passes away, they all find themselves together for the first time in their father's house in Bordeaux, living the illusion of being able to become a united family. But now each of them brings with them a story, an identity and going back won't be easy.
Jean, a Haitian immigrant in Chile, is admired everywhere he performs. Moreover, his body represents all the classic values of academy. However, in the anonymity of his existence, he is also a canon of marginality.
