Playing Victim tells a story of a career woman named Rina who for the first time in her life, feels love and connection from a man and aspiring musician, Rifka. However, their relationship lies in Limbo as Rifka seems to be hiding a secret, one that comes from his own past.
Three filmmakers Santosa, Bayu, and Budi were arrested by the police for rigging an online lottery to finance their film. During interrogation, they recounted their struggle to secure grant funding. Using an AI application developed by their friends at Anarko, Santosa and his crew, who failed to obtain a grant from the ministry, resorted to manipulating an online lottery to get the production money and submit their film to a festival. After completing the shoot, they were arrested by the police and sentenced. Two months later, thanks to the efforts of their editor, Asep, who wasn't arrested, their film won a festival award.
After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.
Armed with venomous spines, invisible to its prey, a pack hunter who terrorizes other fishes - watch the stunning adventures of lionfish. Get to know the fish's prowess to dominate the oceans, to the extent that its invasion endangers local marine life!
A wealthy couple battles a poor laborer over the rights to a small ranch house, but events take a shocking turn after an enormous terrorist attack cuts the three off from civilization.
When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madrid to announce the death of her boss to his brother, the famous bullfighter Mario Montes, it's love at first sight. Set in Spain, this melodrama is full of light, betrayal and blood, and takes place in the murky world of bullfighting.
REVERIES is a film largely inspired the teachings of Charlotte Pryce. A multi-projected piece concerning the theories of visual perception in relation to film movement, rhythm and performance.
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
Maurice Hartmann, a Parisian academic, annoys his young mistress with his cynical and disillusioned words and the void of his existence. The proposal of one of his students upsets his life: the young Kiyoshi offers him to taste his assortment of sushi and sashimi. In front of the delighted face of his teacher, Kiyoshi proposes to him to set up a small business of takeaway sushi for busy Parisians. Enthusiastic, Maurice struggles to find funding, and the "Sushi Express" gets off to a great start. But, after a good start, the small business stagnates ...
Juliette is a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a marriage of convenience with Marcel , a morose and laconic railway worker whom she does not even know. Now that her own life is permanently changed, her sacrifice does not ultimately help her family and with that sorrow added to her lonely existence, she is trapped into remaining married because of social pressures and soon enough, the birth of a child. There must surely be a way out for her at some point, but when and how that will happen seems completely up to fate alone.
100 Stories is literally that: one hundred quick back to back stories that jump between the lives of three main characters. We have Helen, who works at a Biotech company and who has recently discovered fine cooking. We have her boss, Marshall, an over-focused executive who is slowly losing grasp on reality and his life. And we have Brian, a socially engaged bike messenger whose thoughts are blurring the line between activism and terrorism. All three are desperately trying to give some sort of shape to their lives, they are all, in essence, trying to write their story, and in this striving are actually dramatically altering the lives of those who come into contact with them.
An actress confronts her quarter-life crisis by breaking up with New York City and returning home to win back the love of her life.
When Dr. Kel gets tasked with decoding signals from space, he discovers shocking signs of extraterrestrial life.
To honor the memory of her late husband and get closure, Gisèle travels back to Canada. Joined by her daughter Candy, the two women embarck for an artistic trip upon the roads of Alberta. Along the way they meet Jacques, a native american actor who agrees to accompany them in their journey.
Instead of going to Belgrade, a boy called Mita joins illegal movement. Germans, who occupied Belgrade in the meantime, start to hunt down communists. Many of them are killed, but Mita succeeds to get to the freed land together with a girl who was going to Belgrade with him.
Miss Candace Hilligoss' Flickering Halo is a film about the interval simultaneously separating and uniting, the silence between words, the black between pictures. It is a film against the dialectical opposites in cinema, assembled according to the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the use of the phenomenon of retinal persistence as an expressive tool.