Experimental-poetic short film that portrays the director's mourning through a haiku film that has only three shots.
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In this haiku-film, Giordanno Bottezini recounts his experience with death from Rabies Lyssavirus and the split-second moment between the complete deterioration of the brain and death; a moment after existence but included in experience.
Experimental university short film inspired by grief, the passage of time and the filmmaking process
Experimental university short film about the dreams of the character Maria.
Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.
Nereu is an upper-middle class university student. He is a young gay man trapped in a time that is not his. Antônio is less idealistic.
A Video Essay on the work of director Franz Zwartjes.
A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.
A film about filmmaker Sal Galarça's departure from college in December 2023.
An audiovisual Haikai in homage to Queer Cinema made with fragments of important films to the movement.
Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.
Princess Aya of the Sabi Kingdom has a curse that transforms her into wild animals. The only thing that can stop the morphing is her mother’s priceless amulet. When her home comes under siege, her father the King creates an alliance with the Kingdom of Vatar by marrying Aya off to Prince Bari. En route to Vatar, her convoy is attacked by a magical beast and Aya’s amulet is stolen. The Princess must try with all her might to both conceal her secret and to find out who wants to stop the union of Kingdoms.
A group of suppressed women from a village in Gujarat find someone in the desert and their lives are changed forever.
An introverted bookstore owner communicates with his customers through letters, sending waves of care and comfort. Three young girls, each confronted by difficulties at different stages of their lives, visit this bookstore and start their own new journeys afterwards.
“The Playbook” is about Yuyan (Played by Sheila Sim) stricken with cancer, coming to terms with her last 30 days in this world. A successful entrepreneur and a mogul in the fashion industry, she has seen the world and lived a life that good money offers. However, her only regret, the only item on her bucket list is simply just this, she has never been in love. Her two besties (Played by Lina Ng and Roy Li) sets forth to accomplish just that.
Herder Pagwa lives in a hut in a valley of beautiful flowers, where he hoards a mysterious chest whose secret is not revealed even to his three sons. The elder two believe that the chest is filled with gold and precious stones, so they break it open. From then on, water floods the valley, the earth withers and the people and animals start dying of thirst. The youngest son seeks out the wise Arat to ask for advice.
A reluctant leader heads up a team of seven Christians intent on smuggling Bibles to underground churches in a future America where the Bible is illegal and danger is around every corner.
Shiromajo Gakuen is a secret garden that accepts girls who have been emotionally injured. Moga becomes a white witch after receiving training and leaves Shiromajo Gakuen to save the world, but a white witch, Rina, appears in front of her. Also, black witches, who are hostile to the white witches and are attempting to create a new world with a spell, appear in front of her. Later, Moga sneaks into Kuromajo Gakuen to save Rina after she was kidnapped. There, Moga sees a girl who once stayed with her at Shiromajo Gakuen.
What happens when people choose fear instead of Love? Most seek to drive back fear by staying busy with nonsense - by trying 'to be onto something' to avoid despair. Thus, we turn away from Love.
A folk performer brings his animals to the streets. Two thugs' unreasonable demands make everything more absurd. The film shows a circus in a gradual "mutilation" and portrays a man struggling in his life.
Luca arrives by plane to visit his dad and his new family in Sweden. Luca is eager to make a good impression but the visit does not go as planned. A stressful incident releases underlying tensions.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live and they know it. This shall not prevent the emergence of a great romance in the clinic.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.