A person just tells a joke and immediately ends up unemployed. That's roughly how urologist Miloš feels. He made an inappropriate joke about a high-ranking official and now he's trying to destroy him. And if only... The whole house smells strange and everyone around him acts suspiciously. Luboš Kučera's stylized feature debut shows the contemporary world as a bizarre panopticon.
“Buddha & Me” is a meditative 14-minute documentary by filmmaker Sunil Babbar, exploring the timeless spiritual resonance of Sarnath—the sacred site where the Buddha delivered his first sermon. Through evocative visuals, reflective narration, and a deeply personal lens, the film weaves together the ancient teachings of the Buddha with the filmmaker’s own inner journey. Set against the tranquil backdrop of Sarnath’s ruins and monastic life, Buddha & Me becomes both a pilgrimage and a quiet dialogue between the self and the enlightened path. The movie is streaming globally on "Relay" at this link: https://pickrelay.com/t/kcxf-z4bt/buddha-and-me
Many people want their five minutes of fame but for some, it comes at the ultimate price - their life!' Meet John Abbott, narcissistic host of infamous real-crime show Lights, Camera, KILL. Known for its lurid re-enactments of the darkest of trespasses, it has made him rich by exploiting pain and suffering. Yet while Abbott basks shamelessly in the limelight, one victim has seen enough. Broken by his loss, the man has a burning thirst for revenge - and now he wants to make Abbott bleed.
In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakespeare. Yet loneliness lingers beyond the theater’s doors, until drama begins to blur with reality.
Snowflakes at the End of the World offers a meditation on the beauty and ugliness of Montreal winter, and invites critical reflection on the relationship between humans and nature.
Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.
Valiant Indian soldiers fight against Chinese troops during the 1962 Sino-Indian War, preventing a potential occupation of Ladakh region in the Battle of Rezang La.
After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.
La Bonita and Cristina are two trans cooks who work on the cargo ships that travel around the rivers of the Peruvian Amazon. Both have begun to detransition themselves, one to fulfil a promise made to her dead mother, the other for fear of eternally burning in hell.
Liv's estranged alcoholic dad is about to die. The doctors at the hospital make no sense. Her husband is about to have a midlife crisis. Her washing machine is broken. She thinks she'll be fine as these are regular adult problems. Spoiler alert: she won't.
In the Argentinian prison where he's serving a sentence, Marcos cherishes his smartphone, which he uses to keep in touch with family and loved ones. It's also the device with which, at the request of filmmaker Toia Bonino, he documents his daily life. His video recordings and back-and-forth voice messages with Bonino form a precious link to the outside world.
During summer vacation, Xiaohai and his father live alone on the edge of the desert. As his father devoted himself to farming all day, Xiaohai felt very bored. In order to complete the summer vacation travelogue, Xiaohai came up with the idea of sneaking to town to find his mother.
A short film practice piece, "Keep Coming" uses visual symbolism and the eerie atmosphere of Low Roar's "I'll Keep Coming" to create an surreal experience. It dwells in the space between two worlds, suggesting a narrative of duality without defining it, leaving the interpretation entirely to the audience.
A beautiful flower named Luljeta and her jealous shadow clash as the scorching heat slowly withers the park. Their bickering weakens her until a storm finally brings her back to life, but she feels a stab of disappointment when her shadow disappears. When the sun returns, so does her shadow, revealing that their bond runs deeper than their rivalry.
We watch the story of a taxi driver named Tazi, who lives every day in the same monotonous routine. He constantly becomes jealous of other drivers who seem to have more vibrant and interesting lives. While he is driving and continuing his usual route, we discover an interesting twist. Tazi is in the taxi with another version of himself, the passenger who represents his alter ego. This passenger begins to take control and rebel in traffic. In the end, an accident occurs and we discover that everything was just a brief moment of imagination where Tazi has created this other alter ego to escape his daily monotony.