Abjad Ḥawaz takes its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet. Through the body of Salma Zahore, each letter is danced and embodied in the ruins of Barcelona. Blending fashion, music, poetry, and performance, the film reclaims a language often feared and misunderstood, turning it into a celebration of identity, resilience, and artistic freedom.
Ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore's newly swimmable Inner Harbor. As she trains for and promotes this difficult swim, Pumphrey must face a public who thinks she’s crazy to swim in the historically polluted waters.
From Courtroom to Capital: Lincoln’s Path to the Presidency is a short film about Abraham Lincoln’s time as a lawyer in Illinois. The film examines how Lincoln’s legal career helped launch him to the Presidency in 1860 and how he utilized his legal training as President. The film was created by the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in collaboration with the Abraham Lincoln Association.
In which a reclusive perfectionist can’t seem to find his perfect idea until he’s gifted the Book of Knowledge by the 77th Parallel but when crutches fail, he must accept the painful truths so he can cross the threshold.
One moment, Ye-eun is laughing and chatting with her girlfriend Mu-je, and the next, she has vanished—leaving behind no name, no face, no memory. Chasing after clues to recover her name, Ye-eun desperately reaches out. She must complete the garment.
Seok-jun, who is grappling with his gender identity, meets Hye-rin, a transgender woman, who he met at cross-dresser bar before. Guided by her, he starts to explore who he is, but fear soon sets in—and he must face it to move forward.
Jenny is having a special meet up with the guests on her 10th birthday. She must be her perfect self for the day. Will she be able to pull it off today?
Ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel becomes the first person to climb Mount Everest and ski back to Everest Base Camp without supplementary oxygen. After nearly 16 hours climbing in the high altitude “death zone” (above 8,000m where oxygen levels are dangerously low), Bargiel clipped into his skis on the summit of the tallest mountain on earth and started his descent via the South Col Route. He reached Camp II that night and rested - the summit ridge and Hillary Step had taken longer than planned, meaning darkness made it dangerous and difficult to navigate further that day. The next morning, he skied through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall - guided by a drone flown by his brother, Bartek - before safely arriving at Base Camp to become the first person to ascend and descend Mount Everest on skis with no supplementary oxygen.
Thirteen-year-old So-hee travels alone to visit her divorced father, Su-hyuk. By his side is a his boyfriend. In the fish farm, the fish are dying, and a typhoon brews over the sea. What will happen after the storm passes?
Ji-gu and Sa-rang are childhood friends who have always shared each other’s worlds. But on the verge of high school, Ji-gu chooses a different school and a rift opens between them. Afraid of losing Ji-gu, Sa-rang is confronted by the reappearance of the “alien” they liked as kids.
Yoon-seok only wishes to live an ordinary life between his unyielding father and his inscrutable son, Yul. But events take a turn against his hopes, and cornered by circumstances, Yoon-seok is driven to commit an irreversible act.
A young student and her tutor sit in an office, carefully navigating the end of their illicit affair. As they expose their wounds, reality fractures, revealing a new world with a shifting balance of power.
Every summer, friends Rena, Zep and Lauren build a fort in the woods out of forgotten furniture. On this final summer day, Rena struggles to tell her friends a secret she's been hiding from them.
On her 34th birthday, Alesya retreats to the solitude of her remote home, following her private ritual of spending the day alone. But when a mysterious box appears at her doorstep, her carefully controlled world begins to shift.
A woman explores the far reaches of rural Ireland in a desperate attempt to make peace with the darker aspect of her spirit. The film attempts to bridge generations of place and ritual into a poetic and practical film of belonging and peace.
A young woman, dressed in a tracksuit, walks through the backstreets of Sevilla into a housing project. This is Carmen Aviles - the young street superstar of flamenco.
Naval Ode embodies the movement of separation between dock and the ship, between the inside and the outside, between one and the other. This mysterious and suspended dance is imbued with nostalgic desire and swells like a sail.