In “Orixás Center”, Bahian director Mayara Ferrão elicits a poetic-political atmosphere through a story unfolding from Yoruba cosmology. In the documentary, the performance of Black bodies gives rise to the archetypes of the Orixás, celebrating ancient memories and creating new imaginaries beyond the crossroads. Visual poetics delves into narrative poetics, echoing the beauty emanated by the Orixás.
The story is about the forgotten place of human in nature. Sudden rain in a modern city tries to remind people of this, but they all prefer to be in umbrella cages. During this story, a little girl can discover a new world created by rain and find that she is the king of this new world.
"Manjadikaalam" is a journey of a girl back to her childhood memories, where she used to collect 'Manjadi', the red seeds. She carried happy seeds of memory with her but kept unpleasant ones concealed in old glass jars. Years of metamorphosis left feelings of grief and loss in her. What remains with her is not anger nor dejection but lots of questions to self and to the world.
The love story of Paolo and Francesca in the Divine Comedy based on the Divine Comedy, Inferno, Chapter 5 'Legend Love story of "Paolo and Francesca". This is a forbidden love that is not blessed. Francesca fell in love with her husband's brother Paolo. Her husband found an affair and killed them. After their death, they were tortured by the wind every day in hell, but they still loved each other and hugged each other tightly. "Love" presents a new style for this shining love with Chinese traditional painting style after 700 years.
The mystical land of Kaak has returned to its former magical splendor. Two powerful crossbred creatures meet again and face their past. They must make the ultimate choice for themselves and for the good of Kaak, to prevent their own undoing.
The cougar once roamed the woodlands of Eastern North America, but today, industrial forestry practice has nearly destroyed any remaining viable cougar habitat. Now, the cougar exists only in our collective memory, except for the occasional, much debated, sighting. Like the unicorn, the creature is mythical, rare and elusive.
Aro heads to the city on a business trip. There is a sadness between all the faces and cityscapes that she meets and passes through. Where does this sadness come from? As she delves deeper into the city, we come closer and closer to the heart of her sadness.
A man who has forgotten his past (Raahi) meets a woman (Swara) who'd rather forget hers. He combines a great power for self-destruction and penitence with a desperate need for dignity. She stoically faces all the odds life throws at her, guarding herself with her devotion to God, ready to unflinchingly brave anything that may come at her.
There is no woman like Roz Pichardo. Roz is so much more than a domestic violence and gun violence survivor, she's a warrior. Despite - or because of - being thrown off a bridge by an abusive ex-boyfriend, the unsolved murder of her brother, and the suicide of her identical twin sister, Roz is able to channel her trauma into service by helping the often-forgotten people of North Philadelphia. From giving comfort to families of murder victims to saving the lives of over 600 men and women in active opioid addiction - and training hundreds to do the same - Roz knows that her healing and her survival depends upon healing others.
Bilal and his friends spend their summer fishing and hanging out on the banks of the Seine. Bilal is not a fisherman, not a gambler, not a flirt. Everything will change for him when he sees a strange, naked female creature passing through the water. Bilal then searches for her tirelessly.