The controversial Doctor of Philosophy and YouTuber Antonín Dolák lies in the timelessness of his bare room on the top floor of an unnamed villa. Because of his work, he has been expelled from the University of Ostrava, as well as from lectures at DAMU and other institutions. He has offended everyone and has resigned from everything else; he no longer seeks the Truth with a capital T – artificial intelligence will surely do it for us. The final blow for him was the deletion of his channel, which had a ten-year history: from philosophical lectures to provocative anti-art and childish philosophical theater. To some fans he is a self-centered parasite while for others he is a kind of virtual fiction on the internet that they cannot imagine as part of the shared world. Is there anything left about Dolák that is lovable? Is there anything sacred to him? Crippling loneliness sets in.
Archival films from 1950s Kenya turn settler home windows into a lens on the Mau Mau uprising, revealing how British and American movies framed anti-colonial resistance as the villains of a Western.
As happens to Simone, who was already the protagonist 11 years ago – he was portrayed back then with the other men of the Ciliberti family in the previous film *L'albero di trasmissione* – forced to close his workshop and with it his creations made from scrap, emblems of an unproductive inventiveness, of a fragile but realized utopia. It seems, however, that living on the margins of the present, in a precariousness that is a choice and not a misfortune, is a freedom that is no longer permitted. This new work by Fabrizio Bellomo is a biographical film (about a man, a nonconformist, and his neighborhood), which is at the same time a sequel and itself a film within a film, but also and above all a reflection on the role of cinema towards its subjects and on the humanist mandate of documentary.
In a small village in Goundafa, Morocco's High Atlas region, Said, Brahim, and Omar play music, dreaming of success and fame, while Fadma and the village women work the land with songs. The arrival of a new conservative imam gradually sows trouble and divides the community. His influence pushes some to deny their Amazigh identity, while others choose to rebel.
Simon works in a garden center in the south with his mother. Ghosted by Corentin, his teenage world falls apart. The plants in the greenhouse and Hyacinthe may be able to help him move forward.
"Trànsit" is a journey through a city that never lets us stay. Between the noise of the subway and the silence of empty streets, the short film captures the feeling of not belonging to any neighborhood, of living always in transit.
Alessa is a worldly and highly successful real estate agent at the height of her career. The only thing that's missing in her life is love. With a tumultuous divorce behind her, she ventures back to the Philippines to attend her 40-year class reunion. During her trip, an unexpected encounter with her childhood crush ignites a whirlwind of emotions and obstacles, sending Alessa on a quest of rediscovery, passion, and what it means to give love unconditionally.
Natasha Maxwell spends the holidays at her grandparent’s house in the tiny town of Roundtop, where she grew up. She happily takes over from her grandfather as the small town’s benevolent Secret Santa, covertly delivering gifts to deserving and grateful citizens. Meanwhile, while attempting to foil Adrian, an investigative reporter determined to reveal Natasha’s identity as the mystery gift giver, she ends up falling in love.
When Rodrigo was a child, he would eat at his grandmother Marité's house and wait until his aunt Montse came home from work. Without sitting down, Montse would fill a plastic bag with a loaf of bread, a container of food, empty plastic bottles, and a hot brick wrapped in newspaper. She was going to take the food to someone. One day, she decided to take Rodrigo with her on one condition: no talking. Eighteen years later, he remembers nothing.
Saltar is a documentary essay that breaks the silence surrounding suicide to explore the reality of a region with the highest suicide rate in the country. Through different characters, places, and situations, we learn how suicide is experienced when it has become relatively commonplace.
A multichannel audio-visual experiential installation by Know You, exploring our relationship with the planets, placing us in a space between mythology, science fiction media and science. Designed to bring us closer to the celestial bodies.
Estranged from his father and their village community, 13-old Yona wanders in solitudethrough nature. Only newcomer Tobbi catches his attention. And a red mysterious star shining bright on him…