Assembled from thousands of clips sampled from hundreds of old public domain films spanning 1890 - 1970 and re-collaged into a new work, Sospiri lives somewhere between experimental and narrative cinema. It is a surreal meditation on memory and the past. Sospiri follows a person’s journey leaving home and their subsequent troubles attempting to return.
A video composed of footage from various weapons manufacturers’ catalogs, military exercises, and wartime actions. Shots of gunfire intertwine with the logos of weapons manufacturers, while political representatives call for fire and purchasing weapons.
Lifelong best friends Queenie and Marcel have always kept it strictly platonic until a wild night celebrating Queenie's art debut lands them in bed together. Now they must navigate blurred lines for an unexpected chance at something more.
Tim Ballard leads operations across continents to save children from sex trafficking rings. The mission reveals traffickers' brutal tactics while working to expose and stop global child exploitation.
An unprecedented event takes place in Okania, a planet parallel to Earth where the gender structures and behaviors of the Idiots are meticulously studied. The death of the cockroach marks the beginning of a dark chapter in their own civilization, which ends with an even more unsettling occurrence.
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
On their road trip, Marius and Dariya stop at Jasper's inherited villa – but the planned getaway turns into an absurd test of character for the couple. Amid luxury loungers and bleached Neanderthal skulls, Marius finds himself at the mercy of Jasper's power plays. Here, it's Darwin over Dolce Vita.
The film is exploring the problematic relationship of our societies with animals. The anthropomorphization of animals in films contributes to 'human exceptionalism' provoking further issues in the coexistence of animals with humans. The film explores the story of a moon bear that is trying to find its way in a human dominated world out of its natural habitat.
A deceased son attends his own wake. While the house spirits throw him a welcome party, he tries to make contact with his grieving father, played by Jens Albinus. A short film from Filmwerkstatt Aarhus, reminiscent of Dogma 95.
An archaeological excavation site becomes the scene of a struggle for context and meaning in one's own national history. How can science deal with ambiguity? How far can one go to make oneself heard? A powerfully staged chamber play.
From liveliness to rigidity—war scars the city and distorts the faces of its inhabitants until a sunflower becomes a symbol of hope. A digital, AI-assisted collage of scenes that oscillate between fear and resistance.
On the journey to depict "borders," Because Watching Pacifies captures two KMT military dependents' villages established for surveillance purposes following the Chinese Civil War. In the mountainous region traversed by Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Highway and the highlands that border Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, the villages were established in conflict zones along ethnic frontiers.
Jason lives with his grandmother, a folk healer, along with his older brother and their cousin in a secluded house in Auvergne. As a rumor spreads about the disappearance of a foreign soldier who came to train in the region, the old woman's health begins to deteriorate.