A heterogeneous group of shepherds travels through the Çukurova valley in Turkey, following in the footsteps of their nomadic ancestors. Between archives and imaginary correspondence, the film becomes an echo of the memory and disappearance of pastoral ecosystems.
Students in an art class are asked to draw the same nude model, but each interprets the subject in their own way. As their works reveal contrasting perspectives, the session becomes an exploration of perception, art, and the ways individuals project meaning onto what they observe.
Around Lake Como, a voyage interrupted by a series of brief, successive stops, as fleeting as musical phrases. Someone enters and leaves a telephone booth. Water and the lines that contain it.
A documentary record of the live event hosted by Video Store(age) on February 27 at Life World in New York City. The roasters included the following luminaries, trouble makers, and last-minute substitutions: Yung Chomsky, Lily Lady, Christian Lorentzen, Sharon Mashihi, Peter Rinaldi, Joe Swanberg, Onur Tukel, Pacho Velez, and Joshua Z. Weinstein.
During a seemingly ordinary school vacation, eight-year-old Diego struggles to understand why his older brother, Nicco, has suddenly become distant. While Diego clings to the simple rituals that once brought them together, Nicco retreats further into silence, carrying a pain no one around him fully sees. As memories of happier Julys blur with the present, Diego is forced to confront a reality beyond his understanding. Through the eyes of a child, JULY explores the quiet weight of depression, the bonds between siblings, and the small acts of love that can become lifelines in moments of darkness.
During a day of searching in Mexico City, a mother of a missing person reflects on grief, her daughter’s absence, and the struggle to find the missing. An intimate portrait of memory, resilience, and love that endures in the face of silence.
In a framework of fantasy and suspense, the work follows the story of the highwayman (Sari) and (Amira) during their journey in search of a legendary treasure in the imaginary Sakhima Valley, where they encounter mythical monsters, in addition to the complex personal relationship between them.
If the world had an edge, it might look something like the remote corner of northern India where Santosh and Rajji live, collecting highway tolls in dilapidated booths. Work and endless waiting are blurred together. Bound by the power of love, but also by the need to constantly move around in search of work, they dream of the happiness that awaits them in a new place… until one day, a sudden tragedy turns their lives upside down.
Brian, a newly married outsider in a religious extremist family, is torn between faith and morality when the Wards kidnap a lesbian couple, Kennedy and Mia, determined to save them at any cost.
An awkward first aid instructor seeks intimacy with his student. Their questionable contact is fleeting, but for a silent witness from afar, it leaves a lifelong imprint.
Nula is a student who has feelings for her old friend, Joel. One day she is caught in a recurring incident while she is with Joel. When Nula finds out that Joel is ready to express his feelings to his crush, that's where the incident continues to repeat itself and stops when Nula feelings that she has been keeping hidden, she expresses to Joel.
Nena is a young woman obsessed with her appearance and with the idea of growing old. Influenced by a culture that turns female aging into something to fear, she develops an anxious relationship with both the mirror and her own body. When she buys an anti-wrinkle cream in an attempt to stop time, she begins to realise that her struggle is futile. During a visit to her grandmother, she encounters an elderly woman who is happy, confident and at peace with herself. This meeting changes Nena’s perspective: aging stops being a monster and becomes a natural continuation of life.
Elise moves like a dancer, very slowly, refusing a treatment whose side effects she fears, along with the lectures of her doctors. The camera works in harmony with her rhythm, with the movement of her thought, accompanying and sustaining throughout the film the permanent reinvention of her way of being in the world and of facing illness.
In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with her as an animal medium in order to earn a living.