Woojin was once a popular K-POP star, but now he is a faded celebrity. Tormented by obsessive stalker fans and malicious online comments, he lives in isolation, cut off from the world. One day, his only family—his grandmother—asks him to find Santos, a Philippine veteran who once saved her during the Korean War. With his long-time manager and best friend Junha by his side, Woojin sets off for the Philippines. At Manila Airport, he unexpectedly meets Gabby, a mysterious young woman and longtime fan of his, who eagerly offers to help. Soon, Gabby’s best friend, the vibrant and quirky influencer Lara, joins them, and an unplanned journey begins.
A young man, Qi Junyuan, infiltrates Lihen Valley to avenge his family's massacre by a gang conspiracy, only to uncover a deeper, more complicated truth.
The controversial Doctor of Philosophy and YouTuber Antonín Dolák lies in the timelessness of his bare room on the top floor of an unnamed villa. Because of his work, he has been expelled from the University of Ostrava, as well as from lectures at DAMU and other institutions. He has offended everyone and has resigned from everything else; he no longer seeks the Truth with a capital T – artificial intelligence will surely do it for us. The final blow for him was the deletion of his channel, which had a ten-year history: from philosophical lectures to provocative anti-art and childish philosophical theater. To some fans he is a self-centered parasite while for others he is a kind of virtual fiction on the internet that they cannot imagine as part of the shared world. Is there anything left about Dolák that is lovable? Is there anything sacred to him? Crippling loneliness sets in.
Archival films from 1950s Kenya turn settler home windows into a lens on the Mau Mau uprising, revealing how British and American movies framed anti-colonial resistance as the villains of a Western.
As happens to Simone, who was already the protagonist 11 years ago – he was portrayed back then with the other men of the Ciliberti family in the previous film *L'albero di trasmissione* – forced to close his workshop and with it his creations made from scrap, emblems of an unproductive inventiveness, of a fragile but realized utopia. It seems, however, that living on the margins of the present, in a precariousness that is a choice and not a misfortune, is a freedom that is no longer permitted. This new work by Fabrizio Bellomo is a biographical film (about a man, a nonconformist, and his neighborhood), which is at the same time a sequel and itself a film within a film, but also and above all a reflection on the role of cinema towards its subjects and on the humanist mandate of documentary.
In a small village in Goundafa, Morocco's High Atlas region, Said, Brahim, and Omar play music, dreaming of success and fame, while Fadma and the village women work the land with songs. The arrival of a new conservative imam gradually sows trouble and divides the community. His influence pushes some to deny their Amazigh identity, while others choose to rebel.
Simon works in a garden center in the south with his mother. Ghosted by Corentin, his teenage world falls apart. The plants in the greenhouse and Hyacinthe may be able to help him move forward.
"Trànsit" is a journey through a city that never lets us stay. Between the noise of the subway and the silence of empty streets, the short film captures the feeling of not belonging to any neighborhood, of living always in transit.