ZONE is a melodrama about a girl with paranormal abilities who fights against a system that tries to calculate and completely record people in a hermetically sealed area. In a time torn from chronology the rebel sets off with a bundle of hope in search of counterspaces and a life that feels like her own. Time and space collapse into each other. A country can be experienced through the pain, sadness and desire of its inhabitants.
The gifted, charismatic artist John Cranko moves to the Swabian province from London, where he is attacked for his homosexuality, and after many crises becomes the great sensation as the new pop star of the arts: the Stuttgart Ballet Miracle.
A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.
Brutally self-aware, promiscuous love addict Stella Fox moves to New York after a devastating break-up and pursues disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.
The young chef August has big dreams and gets the chance in a recognized Michelin kitchen. He is tested professionally and mentally by the kitchen's harsh, uncompromising and eccentric head chef, but at the same time has towering expectations of himself. It creates a cavalcade of problems and lies over the course of an evening.
In a home for struggling girls, young Milo is transitioning gender with the support of care worker Nicki. One day, through the thin walls of the institution, Milo hears something they wish they hadn’t. They push the emergency button.
In 1996, during one of the biggest tropical storms ever to hit Rio de Janeiro, Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing — but they soon discover the place’s mysterious residents have other plans with the arrival of the rain.
GDR, August 1989: Hanna and Andreas became a target of the secret police and had to give up their plans for their future studies and desired professions. Instead, they face arbitrariness, mistrust and reprisals. Their only chance for a self-determined life lies in fleeing across the Baltic Sea. Fifty kilometres of water separate them from freedom - and only a thin connecting rope around their wrists saves them from absolute loneliness.
In a secluded estate in the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young couple battles the crushing weight of grief after losing two children. The wife is pregnant again, and their isolation only deepens the husband’s growing sense of dread and hopelessness. Haunted by the fear of another tragedy, he wrestles with his darkest instincts as the line between love and madness blurs. But when an unexpected decision pulls him back from the edge, the arrival of their child brings consequences far more disturbing than he could have ever imagined.
Aldi is the only and last inhabitant of the village. He has to keep on his life and perform rituals in order to tend his soul surrounded by the strange visions.
This short film tells the touching story of Dali, a six-year-old girl living in Soviet Georgia in 1946, who discovers an unlikely friendship with Frank, a German prisoner working in the fields near her home.
The film "ATATTOR" evolves around Mahesh, a man burdened by guilt and internal conflict as he tries to escape the shadows of his past. His journey takes place, just one day before mahalaya (দেবীপক্ষের সূচনা) where external chaos mirrors his inner turmoil. Mahesh encounters Abhaya, a calm yet intense figure who pushes him to confronts his darkest fears and regrets. Abhaya serves as a symbolic figure of confrontation and resolution, forcing Mahesh to face the moral consequences of his actions. The backdrop of Durga Puja, combined with ongoing protests, serves to highlight themes of justice, redemption, and the eternal battle between light and darkness. Mahesh's struggle is portrayed as a silent war within himself, representing the fall of his inner demons.
One afternoon, three high school students sneak out of their all-girls Catholic boarding school. Sunny, the new girl, has gone for a swim in the river. Sarah is eager to join her, even though Clémence disapproves.