Shot over eight years, this hybrid documentary is set in a real-life funeral home on Leichhardt’s famous Norton St, and features an admirably game cast of actual morticians— Sparrow, a part-time worker whose fragile psyche begins to fracture in the lead-up to his first exhumation. On the brink of homelessness, Sparrow is offered shelter in the flat next door to the parlour, as the boundary between life and death – and work and self – dissolves into oblivion. Bleakly funny and formally playful.
A young Māori girl in the care of a conservative English couple savours her mother's weekly visitations, as a custody battle driven by racial bias will ultimately decide their fate.
A former dancer returns to pole dancing class without the permission of her conservative boyfriend. She then meets an alluring instructor who brings back the excitement in her sex life.
16-year-old Iris finds out she has a 60% chance of dying; she’s gotta live it up. Chasing a wild bucket-list, she makes unexpected discoveries along the way.
Siren is a stone-cold bookie with a score to settle and a temper hotter than a .45 in July. When a slippery debtor tries to skip town with her money, she tears through the concrete jungle, Birkin swinging, to take back what's rightfully hers. They say payback's a bitch—turns out she's got a name.
Once, the Chakrabortys of Manikpur were a thriving family of 34, united in laughter, meals, and the grand celebration of Raas. In the 90s, Rajat left for Kolkata to chase his ambitions, leaving behind his wife Annapurna and son Somnath. Raised among his cousins, Somnath grew closer to his grandmother than his mother. When he was twelve, Annapurna succumbed to a terminal illness. Rajat, unaware until his return, was consumed by anger and left Manikpur with his son, vowing never to return.
When Maitri, an aspiring travel blogger, is groped by her landlord while traveling to a festival, she impulsively takes retributive steps. The ramifications rock her tight-knit community in this darkly comic exploration of guilt, trauma and the strength it takes to stand up to power.
In a magical realist world where you can have a conversation with your guardian angel, Duvo, a 25-year-old gangster, searches for peace and redemption from a life marked by crime in this beautifully lyrical look at life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Bird returns home to visit her mom in search of the perfect wedding venue after a surprise engagement to her longtime boyfriend, but much to everyone's surprise, she is actually on the hunt for something else.
Pablo decides to get off the train at the station of a small town, buy an old and ramshackle apartment in front of the tracks and start living as if he were not the renowned architect he really is. Maybe he is running away from someone, or something, or even himself. In the village everything seems stagnant except Raluca, an optimistic woman open to surprises that can change your life for the better. She decided to trust her luck, even if life does not always present its best face.
At a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas 2019, Chet, a beleaguered bartender in a state of extended arrested development, must balance caring for his misanthropic, aging regulars — who have nowhere else to go, and rely on him for far more than pouring drinks — with his naive desires to muster some Christmas spirit.
The Lake is a supernatural horror film inspired by the urban legend of Stone Lake - a place always shrouded in mysterious stories that young people often tell each other.
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of kabuki.
Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist's eleven year old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity and hides its existence in books, films and memories of those born before 1995.
In a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.