Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.
Soup Frog is the soliloquy of a saucy post-human tart. Inspired by ecofeminist conceptions of symbiosis (Haraway, Butler), and particularly by the theories of evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Written, performed, and captioned in Damiá - a novel, fully-functioning language with an extensive grammar and a vocabulary of around 10,000 words, created over the course of several decades, which seeks to "explore a queer language and its performative potential."
SPENCER, the king of his suburban castle, is kept awake one night by his eccentric neighbor KINKADE. Tensions rise and it becomes unclear which of them is actually disturbing the peace.
In a dystopian world, overpopulation has forced the human race to limit the number of inhabitants, prohibiting reproduction for a few years now. A boy is hidden in his grandmother's house so as not to be caught by the authorities as this could even lead to his own death. The grandmother, for her part, looks for a way to entertain her grandson by giving him a [...]
In a distant future where there is no water on Earth, the sole remaining human wanders through space with an AI searching for water while something disastrous happens.
When Angela learns of her mother’s passing, she returns to the city of her birth to find not only her Father missing, but a paranormal investigator named Wolf Smoulder who suggests that not everything, is as it seems…
Bruna is a biologist who studies insects. In 2020, during a pandemic, she faces a creative block to continue her current research. After talking to her advisor, Dr. Jaime, Bruna is pressured to look for new stimuli to write. After a few attempts, the young scientist ends up transforming in an irreversible way.
Albertine is the most controversial character of Recherche du temps perdu, the most mentioned yet the one we know the least about: we do not know where she comes from, what she does for a living, where she ends up… and even when she dies, we wonder if she ever existed at all. Several critics saw in Albertine Proust’s driver Alfred Agostinelli, a young Italian with whom Proust had been madly in love. The novel and Proust’s life become the excuse for a contemporary love story – where Marcel, Albertine and Alfred hide, bluff, swap genders and roles, experiencing love as an eternal question, aware that the heart of things cannot be captured, but only glimpsed at.
A man struggles to maintain a good concept of time. When his actions result in him experiencing his already distraught concept, he faces both painful and weird consequences. A surrealist film by Anthony McLaughlin.