A teen boy runs errands while being followed by various figures of authority. As he shares his experience with friends, this tense and controlled drama deftly explores the cyclical effects of victimization on the wider community.
A teen boy runs errands while being followed by various figures of authority. As he shares his experience with friends, this tense and controlled drama deftly explores the cyclical effects of victimization on the wider community.
2019-09-10
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One night, Reine, a young loner, sees among the urban chaos a moving oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
Cody is a recovering opiate addict in rural Ohio, 45 days clean and enlisted in a strictly enforced drug court programme by the county government. Local sober-living facilities are full, so Cody is living in his car on the outskirts of town and working at the nearby lumber mill to save money and keep busy. But his past doesn't want to forget him.
In the shadows of a deep wood, in shadows of the soul deeper still, live 13 year-old Little Turcott and her mother. To their door is dragged a girl named A.D., prone to fits and wracked by visions, left to be watched for the day. As Little Turcott leads A.D. through chores, she is both repelled and drawn to the maddening, inexplicable girl who seems to have dropped from another world. When A.D. realizes that she's been brought to these women not to be watched, but to be murdered, she gives Little Turcott a vision of a marvelous "Elsewhere" and promises to take her there if she's set free. Haunted by this vision, Little Turcott must find the courage to outwit her mother when the day is done and she is set one last chore - to kill A.D.
In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.
No clothes. No apologies. This film marks artist Spencer Tunick's third 'Naked' documentary which feature photo shoots that create art from the naked bodies of men and women. In this shoot, 85 HIV-positive men and women gather in a downtown Manhattan bar where they bare it all for Tunick's camera, creating an unsentimental look at life with AIDS in America today.
The story is set during the early 1980s in a small town in rural Spain. El Chiqui is a talented young man about to debut in the local bullring, expected to continue the legacy of his family name. But that is not what he truly wants. His secret relationship with a young man from the town, Nicolás, offers an escape from the village, leaving the family pressures behind.
An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.
A teenage girl growing up in dangerous Khayelitsha township is faced with a difficult decision in the wake of a traumatic event. Olwethu Anita April and Lungisani Dyalvani star in this short film.
Before Martin dies, he asks Jan to carry out three wishes. Will Jan be up to making them happen? Sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforeseen wishes.
For several years, Zoe has suffered terrible abuse. She's been locked in a basement like an animal and now she's bleeding out. She should have died... several times. But she doesn't die. Zoe wants to survive. She wants to live. Mostly, Zoe wants to escape the cage her captors have trapped her in.
After the colonization of Mars, an elderly man looks back on his memories of Earth and the past he has left behind.
A security guard's act of kindness to a mysterious young homeless girl he discovers hiding in a freshly dug grave, ends up turning south as she manipulates him into exposing his sinful dark secret.
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
One morning Aymé suffers the abandonment of her partner. That same day, she decides to meet again with Laura, her best friend, whom she has not seen during the years of their relationship. After letting off steam with Laura over coffee, they both go out that night to try to have fun. Aymé does not imagine that despite her pain that night she will discover something indescribable and that she had never felt before. The next day Aymé feels in her solitude, a glow of incomprehensible love.