Fred is a drag queen performing on a cabaret stage when he learns that his father, Jean, has died. In the emergency room, he comes face to face with his ghost. Over the three days following this event, Fred and his sister Cassandre try to organize Jean's funeral while Fred seems to be the only one to see him.
It's summer for Lucas and his band of friends in their village near Marseille. Hicham returns after a three-year absence and military training. They get together to organize a friend's bachelor party and enjoy one evening at the seaside after another. But Hicham's return rekindles raw emotions in these men parched by summer.
On his return home, androgynous-looking Madhu attempts to seduce Ratnakar, his rickshaw driver, who is practicing celibacy in preparation for a religious pilgrimage.
Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.
The Apparent Lust Of Blood Flesh Cut And Related To Memories Excavated Revealed And Brought To Knowing By Death Of Seeing By Knowing Of Trauma The Sorry Seven Sickness’ Devoting Reason And Belief To Disintegration Harbouring Abuse Young And Powerless Solved And Suffered Bled Of Active Substance Overdosed Returning Irresolutely To The Twelve Days Of Belonging Recaptured But Beckoned To Reliance Sickened To Compliance Destined To The Object Of Projection Escape Unnecessary Recovery Unprovoked Burned And Buried Above Safeties Sacred Sacrilege Struck By The Proclamations Exposed And Tarnished Damned To Worlds Among Shame Blameless But Convicted By The Mind.
HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba.
On the eve of her 25th birthday, resolved to finally lose her virginity, Waks embarks on a thrilling escapade to the city. But to really enjoy her birthday gift, she must confront and shed the religious trauma and shame that have long burdened her.
In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.
A year in the life of Matric Student, Christian Lees, who recorded his final year of high school through the lens of his iPhone 12. A vlog style feature film filled with fun and excitement.
This is chapter 451 of Ohio Sonata, a neverending Tolstoyan novel of stock images. An ungovernable soap opera of imposterous photos where film genres devour each other. Filmmaker Lluís Galter reorders and rewrites the meanings of these packets of commercial images, which in turn had phagocytosed thousands of other images, forming a mocking composition that goes from the origins of cinema to the next chapter.
In the 1950s, Ireland had more people interned in psychiatric hospitals than anywhere else in the world. just above the tear duct on each side uses archival material from the last century to bring to the surface this dark and buried history, rife with class struggle, carceral logics, violent medical intervention and the lingering influence of colonial forces.
Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience are nourished by a collective pain and a desire to crack through it all.
An absurdist film in which two lost souls find each other underneath a durian tree. Both fed up with life, and in search of some kind of salvation. Eventually, it arrives, but in a different form than expected. A short and vibrant work which captures the transience of life on sultry Super 8.
How do you make a portrait of a music group when nobody knows who the members are? Marie Losier takes up the task and travels to San Francisco to create a documentary on cult band The Residents. There, we meet Homer Flynn, president of The Cryptic Corporation, who guides us through The Residents’ archive, sharing a variety of anecdotes related to the objects it contains. Complementing his stories with archival footage and a historical context, Losier delivers a compassionate portrait and a celebration of creativity.
15-year-old Puerto Rican Lisa Velez overcomes sexism, racism, and breast cancer to become Latin pop pioneer behind hits like "Can You Feel The Beat," inspiring generations of Latina artists.