Elpidio Herrera, a physics and mathematics professor, musician, composer, and luthier, was the father of a mystery: the Sacha Guitar. A magical instrument whose joy and cry unite the mountains and Salamanca, transcending the Santiago region to conquer the world.
Olivia is a 9-year-old girl who lives with the body of her murdered mother. While she tries to go about her daily life normally, a police inspector tries to unravel what happened at the scene.
Franz Himpsl is an athlete, teacher, trumpeter, chaotic spirit, and founder of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik. Together with his wife Irene and their sons Xaver, Ludwig, and Franz Jr., he breaks through the barriers of Bavarian folk music, blending it with jazz and influences from around the globe. Their motto: Respect – and don’t piss your pants! The film accompanies them on musical journeys around the world: to Marrakesh, the pyramids, Alexandria, the Nile, and even the skies above Iran – while Father Franz returns to his roots in the “Woid,” the deepest Bavarian Forest.
Jack Nelson isn’t your average delivery driver. Mistakenly let out of a mental institution with a new job in small-town California, the locals are in for a nightmare. Jack isn’t looking to deliver - he’s looking for his next victim.
Born on the remote Kalaupapa peninsula on Moloka‘i—once a forced isolation settlement for people with Hansen’s Disease—Lindamae was taken from her mother at birth and placed for adoption. Her story mirrors that of many children of Kalaupapa, torn from their families in a system that erased identities and silenced voices. As Lindamae reunites with her birth family and seeks answers, her journey exposes the historical trauma of forced separation, colonial exploitation, and cultural erasure in Hawai‘i.
If you’re an Iranian filmmaker, you’re sure to make it into film festivals. If you’re a Burmese filmmaker, chances are you’ll be on the festival radar, too. It doesn’t matter how good or bad your film is. Two directors reflect on privilege and cynicism, all while trying to maintain a clear conscience. The two reflect: am I being noticed for my work, or because of my country’s political situation? Do you see yourself as an artist or a political activist? Is this nothing but a safari of opportunities that someone still dares to call the film industry?
The improbable story of how one 1970s Australian film grew into the country’s biggest ever cultural export, and the intertwined story of its creator, George Miller, his singular cinematic vision and how it set him on an unlikely journey from outback Queensland to the pinnacle of Hollywood success.
The three friends, Marie, Berling, and Vanja, are back home. They’ve moved in together in a large, beautiful house with high ceilings and a weekly dinner club. Marie is getting used to life as a newly divorced woman, the new grandmother Vanja takes care of both child and grandchild, while Berling has been forced into retirement. But with their usual impressive energy, the three women — led by Berling — decide to create Funen’s biggest local food festival! A decision that doesn’t go unnoticed, either within or around their small household.
A documentary about the spiritual and personal life of Nikita Mikhalkov. The plot covers 66 years of friendship between him and the author - Nikolaev Burlyaev. The film uses unique archival materials.
A ruined wedding photo sparks a journey through Taiwan’s iconic pre-wedding photographers—uncovering stories of fantasy, rebellion, and pain, and leading to a deeper reflection on femininity, absence, and the unreachable idea of perfection.
After her birth, Nien-hua never met her father and was raised solely by her mother. She lived with her mother and older sister in a community building named “Viva Family.” To outsiders, her mother seemed to excessively pamper her children, but in reality, she used various forms of violence to discipline them. At the age of 23, Nien-hua receives a strange message on Facebook from her father, who had never been present in her life. He talks about their brief marriage in a way Nien-hua has never heard before. This regret of never having met her father leads Nien-hua to decide to meet him. As the director seeks to unravel this repressed event, she discovers that each person remembers it in a vastly different way. In the search for truth, everyone reveals their own secrets and inadvertently confirms a recurring dream.
Anatols Imermanis was a Latvian crime writer and a poet during Soviet occupation. He could call himself a successful, financially stable soviet writer. But he wanted more – to be free. The free West, especially Paris, was a life-long dream for Imermanis, but he was never allowed to leave the Soviet Union. So he created his own personal Paris – a bohemian lifestyle, sexual freedom, ignoring all puritan norms of the soviet world. He died alone without fulfilling his dream about Paris. But death was not a reason to give up – his last will was to be cremated and his ashes to be dispersed in Paris red light quarters.
When a detective returns to his childhood home in Salem to settle the estate of his mother, he discovers the wicked truth of his bloodline and tries to escape a house of horror.
He has never been more successful than he is today: in 2024, Roland Kaiser broke all audience records on his sold-out anniversary tour, was awarded his third Golden Hen, honored with four stamps of his own, and immortalized as a wax figure. And in 2025, the charismatic singer and entertainer is once again in top creative form—among other things, with the release of his new LP “Marathon.” In 2025, Kaiser will also be seen on the big screen for the first time.