An elderly woman battles horrifying circumstances designed by her deteriorating mind - and in her darkest hours, flickers of her true self shine through.
In the mid-2000s, Rick Canty lost his mother and their home in Barry, Wales. Evicted, he climbed onto his roof in protest, remaining there for years. Rick on the Roof uses candid interviews and archive to reveal how his quiet neighbourhood transformed into a thriving community. Neighbours threw street parties and rallied around Rick through storms, until he was injured under mysterious circumstances. Amidst the backdrop of today’s cost of living crisis, the town reflects on Rick’s extraordinary defiance. This bittersweet documentary tells the peculiar story of one man on a roof who inspired and united a working-class Welsh community.
Hendrik Waringa, singer and founder of the country band Early Bird, is followed together with his musical grandson Maurits van Nijen in the run-up to the reunion concert to be performed in celebration of the band's 60th anniversary.
Artist Joe Boyd unveils beauty in life’s forgotten fragments, alchemizing the mundane into moments of wonder. In the embrace of the imperfect, and incomplete, he discovers that art’s true power lies not in permanence, but in the delicate, fleeting dance of creation and release.
After moving into her late mother’s home by the beach, a musician is confronted by another kind of loss as mysterious mementos and phantom noises blur reality and memory.
The story follows a day in the life of Ismail, a Palestinian photographer whose American upbringing was shaped by his grandfather’s displacement during the 1948 Palestine Nakba. When Ismail’s mother gifts him his grandfather’s keffiyeh—a traditional Palestinian scarf—it triggers an internal struggle between shame and pride in his cultural identity, all unfolding against the ominous backdrop of rising violence against Palestinians.
Occupied Croatia, 1991. An army major reluctantly agress to take care of a cow that's been left for dead in a recently abanndoned building, however, taking care of the creature reveals deeper truths about the human nature to him.
A Christmas-loving weatherman has had a tough year; upon returning to his hometown, he bumps into a former teacher who always cheered him on, and his former crush — and things start to look up.
After his fiancée leaves him, a Christian in crisis heads into the wilderness to test his faith, only to find comfort by Mother Nature who has cryptic plans for him.
In a 'village' where hatred and discrimination do not exist, children grow up without knowing pain or sorrow. At 18, they go on a pilgrimage outside the village, but some never return. Despite the village's perfection, why do they not come back? Unable to suppress her curiosity, Daisy follows the pilgrims and wanders the 'Origin'. Sophie, still living peacefully in the village, recovers forgotten memories of Daisy and contemplates why Daisy headed to the Origin. The restoration of humanity begins with awareness. In an era where advanced science suppresses individuality and commodifies humans, ironically, recognizing flaws and differences is essential to embody empathy and love. The children who leave the given peace to choose active lives will often suffer, but will feel happiness more often.
Fulfilling her late father’s last wish, Zhang Yuanyuan (Wang Zhen’er), who grew up in the United States, returns to China with her young daughter. There, she is confronted with a painful truth — her estranged mother (Li Ping), whom she has long blamed for abandoning her, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. As the mother’s memories fade, Yuanyuan and her daughter accompany her through the gradual unraveling of time. Through fragments of recollection and reality, Yuanyuan’s thoughts drift back to the 1980s, where she “meets” her mother as a young woman (He Lin) — brilliant, beautiful, and full of promise. In that era of newfound hope after the resumption of university entrance exams, her mother’s life seemed destined for success. Yet a single unexpected event changed the course of her life, as well as that of Yuanyuan’s father and Yuanyuan herself, forever. A tender and time-woven story about memory, reconciliation, and the quiet strength th