Xiao Yufan’s bold move earns him a spot on his high school basketball team, but he faces skepticism and challenges from teammates and classmates. As they train and grow together, their bond deepens. Balancing school and dreams, they strive for success in a crucial game, aiming for something remarkable.
Thomas, devastated by the tragic death of his girlfriend, struggles to deal with the grief that consumes him, the short film explores his emotional journey towards a fateful decision.
After Paul's girlfriend breaks up with him, he's completely lost in life. To continue he will need to rediscover what love, sexuality and his relationship with his family/friends mean to him.
Forming part of a film constellation that stretches from Chile across the Pacific, in which Malena Szlam trains her camera on far-flung volcanic landscapes — by turns barren and verdant — the dazzling in-camera multiple exposures of Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya evoke the layered histories of the titular Bunya Mountains in eastern Australia’s Beerwah region, further deepened by sonified atmospheres from artist Lawrence English.
A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne Vermette’s buzzing miniature A Black Screen Too is a burst of colour and movement undercut by darkness.
A modern musical between Tess, a mother, and her daughter Justine. After suffering a fall, the doctor expresses to Tess, from the CT scan, a potential presence of a lump in her breast and recommends a mammogram. Justine accompanies her and ultimately uncovering the real reason for the fall.
In Panama City, a Colombian immigrant employed as a home health aide, who harbors a secret, develops a touching and unexpected bond with a strong-willed, wealthy businesswoman struggling with encroaching dementia.
Seo-jun, a young pianist from an underprivileged background, manages to study classical piano with the aid of a scholarship with the help of renowned pianist Eun-jung Son. His goal is to win an international competition but he is repeatedly defeated by his rival, Min-jae. After failing to win, out of frustration, he vandalizes in the waiting room. Ji-soo witnesses his misdemeanor and blackmails him to manipulate him. Seo-jun and Jisoo develop a romantic relationship and he finds out that she plays jazz piano. He became passionate about jazz piano as well, performing in jazz clubs, and distracted from classical piano. Eun-jung discovers his behavior and disapproves of it, and thus considers cutting the scholarship off him. Seo-jun gets one last chance to compete in a competition before his military enlistment but learns that Min-jae is also participating. Can Seo-jun prove his worth and forge his path as a pianist?
In the slums of Kathmandu, intercaste newlyweds Rabindra and Sarita face a harsh reality when Sarita is mistakenly threatened by outsiders over minor confusion. As a result, she insists they move to a concrete room elsewhere in the city.
Erica hugs pandas for a living and is absolutely miserable. And when hidden-camera TV star Jacques Burton tries to chat her up in the bar of the Hotel Samos, there's a few other things he might be surprised to find out.
Follows a young woman named Audrey Benac on a research odyssey of ghostly possession in which she endeavours to restore the legacy of the forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.
Jean is the provider and (over)protector of her two teen children, Tamika and Tristin, and begrudgingly lives with her mother in a crowded Lawrence Heights apartment complex. Despite the kids learning to become more self-sufficient, Jean’s vision is too clouded by the past to see that they're growing. She is haunted by violence in both their past and their present, and must help her children cope. Expertly using sound and flashbacks to construct a layered and full portrait of this woman's life, Chapman reveals the trials and tribulations that women in Jean’s family carry with them.