Weird Dr Faisal secretly dissects bodies brought to him by a young homeless man who digs them up in cemeteries: it’s hard work, as the young man tells a murderer he meets in the afterlife. The trouble that led him here started when Faisal decided he needed live subjects. Even this lowlife supplier of corpses felt ethical qualms about drugging and kidnapping people in the street – especially when, despite his best efforts, they started to die as well.
Dreams are as wide as the desert sands, their treasures hidden beneath the dunes of sleep. Thousands of years ago, an unseen mentor advises a young woman newly anointed as her community’s Khaleemah, or Dreamer, whose task is to divine truths from the visions she has during the deepest of the seven stages of slumber. Borne away by her fellow villagers to a magical oasis to connect with the spiritual dimension, she encounters demons, is pursued into a labyrinth fort, then escapes with the help of her friends, the birds. Made with puppets in stop-motion animation, this is a myth full of charm, wisdom and mystery.
Like the rest of his family, Saad is devoutly religious and observant, calling the faithful to prayer in his mosque. When his beloved nanny dies, he is shocked to learn she remained a Christian, but just as shocked when his father refuses to pay for the care of her corpse and accuses his so of weak faith for even considering it. Saad prays for divine guidance, but it is his human feelings are already telling him what he must do next.
In this lighthearted comedy-Drama, Saeed's day spirals into chaos after he wakes up late, faces missed meetings, and a series of unfortunate events. After a reminder to pray from a grumpy waiter, Saeed returns to find his shoes stolen, sparking a wild and hilarious chase involving stolen prayer beads and unexpected twists.
Sometimes colours just choose you, as Malik says to a woman who asks why he chose yellow Converse shoes. But Malik hasn’t actually chosen anything. An introverted young man, he is usually to be found in his bedroom, listening to vinyl records and solving his Rubik's cube. His routine is disrupted when he discovers an imaginary friend living in a pair of Converse shoes found in the basket of laundry the maid delivers to his door. The shoes nag at him to get out of his room, force him on to a bicycle and then introduce him to the local nightlife. It is a journey that will challenge his fears and broaden his horizons.
50 years on from the 1974 Guildford pub bombings, this programme tells the story of four young people who spent 15 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit, and their continued fight for justice.
Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly personality on full display as he interacts with his loving family. By showing Vito’s dignity and inherent value, Vito-Man tackles the difficult conversation that is the eradication of people with Down syndrome, proving that an extra chromosome should not be a death sentence.
Love Found is a short film about the search for mutual understanding between a mother and her son, who are unable to communicate and find a way to connect with each other. Neither of them realizes how much they need each other, and it takes an utterly absurd situation involving an online scam to make them aware of it. Directed by Matěj Macháček, this drama not only explores misunderstanding but also forgiveness and maternal love. The absurd situation evolves into a psychological drama, allowing the acting performances of Barbara Lukešová and Kristián Kašpar to truly shine.
A short story in three parts—verbally contemplating on the death of an insignificant person—riddled with self loathing of both the living, and the dead. For death is a bitter tasting joke with no set-up; only a shocking punchline leaving those who remain with the unbearable weight of grief and longing.
Writer and slacker Anton is losing his memory. Scraps of memories and chance encounters on the streets of the night city help him relive the past and find a new self.
An all-access documentary that follows Tom Izzo and the Michigan State men's basketball team when they return to the upper peninsula of Michigan to play an exhibition game against Izzo's alma mater - Northern Michigan University.
Through the voices of young people we learn about the Rap, Hip Hop and Urban Art scene in the municipality of Planadas, Tolima (Colombia), showing the genesis and flourishing of a group of young people who are working together for the construction of their own identity, from spaces of respect and love for the other, in a rural context.
It proposes a dialogue with the imaginaries of the women of the Bajo Cauca territory in the department of Antioquia, a territory that for decades is crossed by waves of violence, being a mining territory is believed to be a territory of men but also belongs to women, their stories are intertwined through a territory in dispute between armed groups, mining companies, heavy machinery and illicit crops. Mercury is a protagonist in this story, we find its traces in the bodies and the territory, mercury arrives through mining in the 70s and enters all spaces of everyday life, it gets into rivers, houses, pots and kitchens, in pregnant women and through food it reaches the territory of the uterus. With these changes in territorial dynamics we see the changes in pregnancies, care practices and what it means to be a mother.
A group of children from the village of Chire in Hatocorozal, Casanare take us into their community and daily life while they learn audiovisual communication tools. These resources venture them with cameras and microphones to make known their vision of the territory. Thanks to their imagination, creativity and ability to develop new skills, these children will raise their voice to the world and their own community, showing what a pijotero has to tell.