‘Tunisia. A word I have trouble articulating, when I want to tell it to my son.’ Dhia, a 29-year-old filmmaker, left Tunisia after having taken part in the Revolution. Exiled to France, he’s worried about transmitting his stuttering to Elia, his two year old son. In his pursuit to overcome this challenge, Dhia embarks on a journey of hypnosis and speech therapy sessions. Yet, as these sessions unfold, it is evident that the issue isn’t managing a fluent speech so much as figuring how to talk to Elia about Tunisia, his home country.
Between Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Augure borrows from magic realism to paint a portrait of “undesirables” and “sorcerers” through the intertwined stories of protagonists of different genders and generations, confronted with the prejudice and suspicion of those around them.
A grieving father who lost his daughter in the Sewol ferry incident looks back on his long journey to piece together his lost memory and pick up the pieces of his life in this commemorative film marking the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.
The next season of Buzz House is the most ambitious yet. Selly has prepared many surprises for the participants: secret competitors, an isolated villa in the forest that can only be reached by boat and a costumed employee, set to scare them, to have a thrilling exit. Everything is planned in detail. What's not in the plan, though, is for a real psychopath to show up, kill the "scary" employee, take his costume and terrorize our competitors for real. Do rivalries still matter when you're being run over with an axe? Do friendships still matter when you have to risk your life for them? Who will manage to escape and how?
“Ars longa, vita brevis” – art is long, life is short. This is one of Japanese music icon Ryuichi Sakamoto’s favorite quotes, and the message that he leaves for viewers at the end of his final concert film, shot before he succumbed to cancer in March 2023. Consisting of only Sakamoto and his piano, Opus features the final live performances of 20 songs that Sakamoto meticulously curated to encapsulate his distinguished 40-year career.
The Devil wants you to be miserable in your relationship and/or divorced and unhappy. God wants you to be excited and in Loving unity with your spouse and the two of you in covenant with Him. A story of multiple relationships that are in difficulty or on the brink of divorce or failure. A Bible-believing long-time relationship coach and Pastor coaches individuals who are involved in troubled marriages and relationships based on Biblical teachings.
A rom-com, where the love between the two young protagonists will blossom and grow on the streets of Recanati, accompanied and guided by the verses of the poet Giacomo Leopardi.
A docu-fiction hybrid following Stephen Giddings, a man from an addiction-afflicted family, who auditions for and takes on a film role, while transforming his life in the real world, blurring the lines between fact and fiction to examine addiction and recovery.
As she goes through her second cancer, a transgender mixed martial arts champion rethinks her life. Viviana González, known in the street underworld as La Karateca, continues without defeats while teaching other people how to defend themselves.
"Riverbed" tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to preserve, maintain and reconstruct their lives with and against each other. Salma survived many years by protecting her independence, she reached her peace through letting go of any attachments. But the past does not let go of Salma and brings back Thuraya, defeated, divorced, and pregnant.
North Carolina’s sustainable forestry movement is a rare gesture towards community-based climate action. Seen through the stories of two Black families who fight to preserve their land and generational legacy, Family Tree’s cinema vérité approach reveals the colossal task of maintaining the land while navigating family dynamics, unscrupulous developers and changing environmental needs. Each challenge is faced with diligence and integrity, while the forest itself becomes a kind of character in this drama about its own survival.
1916. Julien Delaunay is reported missing in action during the Great War. His wife, Julie, refuses to believe he is dead. 1919. When a photo of an amnesic drifter appears in the press, Julie immediately recognizes him as her beloved husband. They are reunited and, little by little, she helps him to fall in love with her again. Until another woman claims to be the man’s real wife…
While sulking in his home after a breakup, a young man is visited by the spirit of a famous alpha-male influencer. From his teachings, he learns the ways of being a “true” male… for better or worse.
On a night full of familiar and unfamiliar faces, parties and paranoia, Lucas walks the streets of Buenos Aires as usual, devoted to his noble task of ensuring the enjoyment of others, while dealing with his mind about to overflow.
Ana introduces Ezequiel, her new boyfriend, to her parents, in a cabin in the middle of the woods on Christmas Eve. Ezequiel goes into the woods to look for firewood, and when he returns, she notices a change in him that raises questions.
Lorena, Federico and Sergio are siblings who perform a play in which they evoke their dead father's printing workshop, a place to which they cannot return. With the arrival of the pandemic, they can no longer perform either, and have to invent another way to continue telling their family story.
