After a small-town film festival where the main characters, Mitch, Maynard and Cherie win absolutely nothing, both men wind up in jail for having stolen the Matricher Falls 3rd Annual Film Festival's "Grand Jury Ladle Prize" and Cherie joins up with a shady distribution company. After she becomes an investor, the two shady distributors get her to invest everything she owns in It's the Gravy Unlimited Film Distribution Company Unlimited (ITGU). Soon after she forms her partnership with Stankey and Kahn, the pair goes out of town, leaving Cherie with all their liabilities, and no assets. After she springs Maynard out of jail, the two mobilize some town folk to help them save the failing distribution company in an attempt to get whole.
When a once great gladiator's betrothed is murdered, he vows to hunt down the killer. But when he discovers the murderer is no stranger, the gladiator must enter the Colosseum once more to avenge his bride.
Take a trip on the wild side with these six daring short films from Mexico, Portugal, Brazil, Spain and France that uncover the power of nature and mysticism, family ties that bond yet suffocate, the vagaries of same sex attraction, the pain of memory, the thrill of what's to come. The 6 short films are: Memory of An Afternoon On the Roof [Recuerdo de una tarde en la azotea] (2022); Afternoon Sun [À Tarde, Sob o Sol] (2020); Sweet Water [Água Doce] (2023); Cor Petit (2023); Haiku (2022); The Boy Who Wanted to Fly [El niño que quería volar] (2018).
When Anya moves to a new town and gets mistaken for a woman named Sarah, she soon discovers she has an identical twin sister who was separated at birth.
Ara lives in Corrientes, where he meets Kossi who is from Togo, Africa. The first one participates in clandestine fights while the second one dreams of being part of a football team. A sentimental relationship will arise between the two of them.
When the pianist Francesco Piemontesi hears an unreleased recording of the pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, it comes as a shock to him. This freedom of playing, these colors and nuances, this virtuosity, which is always presented with a smile, overwhelms him. He decides to explore what he believes he is hearing here: the alchemy of the piano.
In 2003, a group of Ghanaian filmmakers attempts to create their own version of "The Blair Witch Project" by invoking an African vampire spirit, leading to a horrific massacre. Fast forward to 2023, Julio and his team are determined to replicate the experiment, hoping to capture the supernatural on film—but as they delve deeper, they risk unleashing a darkness far beyond their control.
More journalists have been killed over the course of a year in the Israel-Gaza war than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists started collecting data in 1992. This hellish portrait follows three Palestinian journalists in northern Gaza as they are forced put their lives at risk while trying to do their work.
More than a year after fleeing Iran, young filmmaker Sara Fattahi faces a great void. Where could that feeling come from, as if some part of her is missing? She reaches for her phone to find answers.
In order to earn her trust fund, Evie is tasked with granting Christmas wishes to the people who saved her life on the night of her birth. To aid in her cause, she employs Kyle, a handsome local attorney, to track down those who helped and attempts to secretly learn what they might want while maintaining her anonymity. With Christmas fast approaching, the heiress and the attorney can't resist falling for each other's charms as they ramp up their gift giving efforts. But as time ticks down, will she be able to accomplish the mission and grant all of the wishes by Christmas Eve?
A poor construction worker makes a deal with a dying business mogul to inherit billions only to discover that he has also been cursed by the man's terrifying sins.
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.
The film charts the mysterious psychological destruction of Easton, who is driven to the edge of sanity, and possible self-harm, by those that love him most—his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play in his addled psyche?
A cardiologist suspects his daughter lives after an exorcism. During her funeral, he conflicts with a priest over her fate. Both strive to prove their beliefs, hoping to save her if she's alive.
Inspired by Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity", filmmaker Lívia Sandim's short film celebrates the connection between art, music and identity. The story follows a protagonist who, while dancing to a David Bowie vinyl, explores his emotions and his relationship with representation. In the final act, Bowie's famous interview resonates as a manifesto of freedom and authenticity, reflecting the director's vision of the importance of expressing oneself freely.
Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories, what the forest means to their very being, their fears in a reality of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing something different.