As the region burns with religious fervor, men and women mounted on horses and carts move through the Peninsula. At the same time, two men inherited a dry plot of land. Coming from the coast, with some seeds left by the former owner, they cross the desert that now serves as their backyard.
In an elite Academy for superheroes, ambitious trainee Lily suits up as Silver Fox for her grueling final exam: a one-on-one deathmatch against the merciless villainess Jinx, where victory alone grants her the mantle of true defender. Entering the arena under the watchful eyes of the Academy's director and her mentor Crimson, Silver Fox tests her innate powers and martial prowess against Jinx's vicious whip cracks and predatory taunts, in a clash that blurs the line between test and torture. As Jinx's brutal cunning dismantles Lily's defenses punch by punishing punch, the fight devolves into a raw spectacle of psychological torment and physical violation, stripping away the heroine's illusions of heroism. Defeated and claimed as a slave by her conqueror, Silver Fox's shattered spirit endures as Jinx's broken trophy, exposing the savage cost of failure in a world where mercy is a myth.
Mina secretly goes to a gynecologist's office with her friend Maedeh, who is about to get married, to help her illegally remove the obstacle to her marriage.
MohammadReza is a grown man who wakes up in literature class; the teacher asks him a question and he loses the ability to speak when answering, but he protests the wrong answers of others and goes to write the answer on the board, where mathematical equations are also being written involuntarily.
This work is a free adaptation of the story The Big Bang from the Dark Half of the Moon series by Houshang Golshiri. A lonely, ambulatory old man named Fazlollah gives meaning to his life with small pleasures and spends his daily life talking to his absent wife. Those around him pay no attention to him and his communication is limited to daily phone calls. But one night, the sound of the neighbor's setar, one of his pleasures, goes silent.
Years ago, from the heart of the Black Plague, darkness and death, a spectacle emerged. People called it the Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, a death that embraces everyone without distinction and invites them to dance.
Chris Eubank Jr and his father, the legendary Chris Eubank Sr, reunite after years apart to confront their fractured past. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, this powerful film explores legacy, grief and the emotional cost of life in the ring.
The mother suffers from an illness that threatens to drown her memories and emotions. She pleads with her daughter for help. Using her umbilical cord, she fashions a giant straw, with which the daughter attempts to suck excess water from her mother's head through her eye, hoping to save her. In the process, the daughter herself risks drowning.
By photographing a mirror with clay attached to it from a blind spot, I created a single form using both the reflected world and the clay. In Japanese health education textbooks, women are described as becoming ‘rounded’.
The text explores the balance between independence and interdependence in adulthood — how the desire for freedom can clash with the need for connection. It invites reflection on when independence fosters growth and when dependence becomes either dangerous or essential for survival.
In the village of Sabucedo, Spain, the Rapa das Bestas unfolds: a raw ritual where villagers and wild horses collide in a test of strength and memory. Seven years in the making, Fillos do Vento: A RAPA places viewers inside the curro, where dust, breath and tension blur the line between tradition and extinction. A modern-day Quixote story, as wind-farms creep over the surrounding hills, the work challenges audiences to feel the fight for cultural survival in an age of rapid change. This documentary is not meant to be watched but inhabited, a sensorial call to witness what is at stake when culture, nature and modernity collide.
It is a romantic tragedy about a teenage opera singer, Elisa, whose ambition to land the lead role of Carmen leads her to embody her character selfishly, while her boyfriend, fearful of losing her at the opera, begins to stalk her rehearsals for the sake of their relationship. As a love triangle develops with her co-star in the play, Elisa must face the consequences of her obsessions and selfish decisions.