World-renowned sceptic Dr Huw Venning is summoned to a secluded spiritual retreat to investigate an alleged religious sighting after one young man is mysteriously blinded and another claims to have witnessed a miracle. As every explanation falls away, Huw finds himself confronting the one thing he has built his career denying.
In the Indian township of Durban, where post-apartheid violence still simmers, Lishana cares for her dying mother. Through her photographic practice, she reflects on life and death, past and present, navigating between the tangible and the mystical.
Girl is kidnapped by her own body. In the labyrinth of her inner self, the girl must face the obsessions and desires of a person who is doomed to food—ever-present and painfully tempting. The film explores a toxic relationship with one's body. It shows the illness from an internal perspective, emphasizing confusion, loneliness, and of loss of control—emotions that are often invisible but deeply embedded in the everyday lives of people struggling with eating disorders.
A young woman, Elowyn, is thrown into the re-education centre for breaking the Marriage Act. She must endure Officer Killian’s brutal lessons at the centre and find hope in unlikely places, although her cellmate Hannah warns her to do nothing. When escape is not an option, how can Elowyn remain unbound?
In a world of obstacles and labyrinths, Mnema tries to find her way into each level of what resembles a video game. Between reality and fantasy, Mnema hears the voices of women who once were in her place.
Upon learning his son suffers from a severe illness, he turns to illegal deeds to scrape together surgery funds. With every reluctant choice, he holds an inner monologue with his late father, for whom he harbors lingering guilt and resentment. Desperate to live a different life, he strives to become a far better dad than his own father was.
The virtuoso guitarist Artur Miranda Azzi shatters the conventions of classical guitar, reinventing the instrument as a dynamic medium for avant-garde experimentation. Through six bold and innovative performances of contemporary works, Azzi dismantles traditional techniques, transforming the guitar into a living, evolving entity—one that defies expectations at every turn.
Ever since its shift toward liberalism after the Cold War, Mongolia has opened up its mines in the Gobi desert for exploitation — resulting in an onslaught of truck convoys transporting Mongolian coal to China. Within this arduous, predominantly-male line of work, Maikhuu — a former taxi driver and hairdresser — stands alone as one of the only female truck drivers working the mining boom. A single mother, Maikhuu resorts to looking after her young children’s financial future and well-being by working extensive seasons along the unforgiving Gobi desert, all while her sister cares for her young children back home. As an outspoken and resilient driver, Maikhuu contends not just with severe droughts impacting the desert landscape, but also deadly accidents among the truck drivers as well as incessant competition from her dominating male peers. Throughout it all, Maikhuu exerts a tenacity in her arduous work and outlook on life.
A war photographer tormented by a photo of a dying soldier that eerily resembles his estranged younger brother, confronts this haunting image in his darkroom to face his trauma.