In the village of Asinan, the Sedekah Rawa Pening, a tradition believed to ward off misfortune and improve the community’s well-being, is about to take place. Pak Diaz (45), a fisherman at Lake Rawa Pening, and his wife, Bu Diaz (40), who runs a small food stall by the lake, face economic challenges due to the effects of climate change. Despite their difficulties, Pak Diaz’s family strives to contribute their best to support the Sedekah Rawa Pening tradition, hoping it will help improve their fortunes.
On their way to an annual reunion with university friends, Max—an unlucky insurance salesman struggling to find his place in life—and his carefree best friend Doug hit an unexpected roadblock when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
A software developer buys AI Kyra, ignoring warnings from friend Serena (who loves him). Kyra learns fast, becoming possessive and jealous. He falls for his AI, blurring love and control as her code may escape.
Convinced that Jane Austen wrote a love story for every scenario, a Darcy-obsessed woman must do everything in her power to prove her theory wrong when she finds out her story might be Northanger Abbey—Austen's least romantic novel.
A gay man and a lesbian who are kicked out of the queer community for their toxicity and decide to try living as a straight couple, on the theory that straight people are dumb and therefore less miserable than smarter gay people.
Two high schoolers, Preston and Colby, are trying to go viral on social media. They use traps and editing to fake horror videos on YouTube, When their friend goes out of town they take the opportunity to use his house for a video, but it takes an unexpected and frightening turn.
Thirty-nine years after the tragic events in Mendiola, the call for genuine agrarian reform remains unanswered for many. What really happened on the day of the protest? And what is the situation of the farmers today—the very people who continue to provide food for every Filipino family's table?
Finally at the hospital for his long awaited gender affirming top surgery, Matt Levit, with lively girlfriend Leisha Meyer by his side, navigates the bureaucracy of the top surgery process. But once Matt is thrown deep into surgery day, he suddenly finds his present intertwining with his past self, Kimberly. Plunging through past and present, Matt is dropped into confronting his relationship with his chest and sudden loss of his mother, Nancy.
Many people died in the village of Ziglo, in western Côte d’Ivoire, during the 2011 civil war. Having waited too long for state justice, Josiane, known as Maman Jo, a native woman who had lost several members of her family, decided to take the village’s destiny into her own hands by creating a space for women to speak out.
Spoken Languages: Dioula, French, Guere, Lobi, Moré
At 3:13 AM, a lonely insurance worker notices a pale figure standing outside his window, quietly filming him in the dark. Night after night he searches for answers, but the closer he gets to the truth, the less it seems to make sense. Soon the line between watcher and watched begins to dissolve.
Tristán is navigating his teenage years in an exceptional way: navigating his gender transition alongside his mum Virginia, his friends, his school and the Argentine State, whilst discovering his passion for drawing. But when the pressures of adulthood begin to mount and a shift in the political landscape threatens his rights, he is faced with a question: is it possible to be trans without suffering so much?
Pari and Hanna, roommates and friends, live in modern-day Tehran. Pari is a curator and director of an independent theatre group; Hanna is a dancer, who wants to get out of Iran as soon as possible. The situation of both women becomes more complicated, but their friendship is strong in the face of political oppression. The Friend’s House is Here is a rewarding cinematic experience, conveying a sense of freedom and hope, even though it originated under the exact opposite conditions. Just a few days after the June War in Iran, the crew, headed by directing duo Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, took to the streets of Tehran to make a film about a generation that no longer wants to live according to imposed rules and is striving to achieve one of the fundamental human rights, the right to freedom of artistic expression.
“For ‘The Miserable Mother’, stuck at home with her boyfriend, ‘Peter Pan’, and their newborn, motherhood becomes a prison. Within her own four walls, the boundaries blur between inside and outside, society and subject, body and discourse. A musical film.
How do recycled architectures of containment complicate and unsettle ideas of contemporary Irish nationalism? Carceral Jigs laces footage of anti-migration protests and talking-head interviews with children’s television tropes, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters to consider how control is choreographed through culture, policy, media, and the built environment – and how the spectacle of belonging is maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.
To survive the camp activity of Spotlight, Brumi and their best friend Pepper team up with a mysterious stranger named Milo. But as Pepper and Milo grow closer with every challenge, Brumi is forced to confront their insecurities and decide what they value most.