Depicting the passage of the four seasons in a single year, this contemplative documentary reveals the tragic yet magnificent decline of a world in agony.
Following their high school graduation, Olafs and Ronis spend an aimless day in a small Latvian seaside town. Attempting to alienate their hangovers, Ronis steals 15 euros from his father to buy marijuana setting of chain of events that, after a confrontation with the police and driving under the influence ends in a tragic car crash, where one of the protagonists perishes making this accidents as a harsh boundary between childhood irresponsibility and adulthood.
A young woman arrives at a quiet countryside house she has rented to spend some time alone. While filming a casual video tour for a friend, she notices a strange man standing at the edge of the forest, silently watching her. When she tries to confront him, the man begins to mirror her every movement with unsettling precision. As the distance between them slowly closes, the boundaries between inside and outside – safety and intrusion – begin to dissolve.
There are people who spend their entire lives in the same house, their childhood home where their family history rests. Benigno, at eighty-eight years old, still sleeps, eats, and dreams in the home where he was born, the home that is rooted in the earth to reach for the sky. The house stands alone, alongside Benigno and his tortoise Totó, adrift in the limbo of memories, the ritual of daily life, and the anticipation of the final day. Adjacent to the house is his vegetable garden, which he visits daily to tend to his chickens and work the soil with the seeds inherited from his ancestors, which he ceremoniously catalogs and preserves.
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.
Variety’s Power of Women held its inaugural U.K. edition on June 3, 2026, at the Chancery Rosewood in London. Presented in partnership with Lifetime, the event celebrated five high-profile honorees who were each featured on individual covers of a special accompanying issue.
A documentary-experimental video about the personal and collective connection to Ukraine’s lost waters: the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Kakhovka Reservoir.