During his daily visits to his ailing mother Rose, Tony helps her remember the past in this quietly beautiful portrait of aging, loss, and shared tenderness between mother and son.
A young doctor has a series of strange experiences in this beguiling and unclassifiable work. Playing with genre, sound, and narrative, Now, Be Still is an experience that will continually leave you unsure of what to expect.
A train carries sleeping passengers. The monotonous clatter of wheels marks the journey’s progress. What lies ahead, and how long will this night endure? No one knows. There is only memory. Or a dream. Or delirium.
The Russian North, in the basin of the Mezen River. For decades, spent rocket stages launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome have fallen here. The film is based on footage from the 2000s, shot by Chechen, the head of a scrap metal harvesting crew. With obsessive persistence, he spends months groping his way through northern forests and swamps in search of rockets.
“God seems to have forgotten me… Why hasn’t He taken me yet?” Sister Regina is 104 years old. In December 1940, when she was 19, her family was forced to leave Bulgaria. Salvador, the ship carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine, sank during a storm; Regina’s mother and brother perished. Having reached Jerusalem, the young Jewish woman converted to Christianity and became Sister Regina. Eighty-five years later, she continues her life of faith.
Filmed in a single continuous shot, THE NECROMANCER follows Shae, a woman who summons ghosts by burning herself. While attempting to summon a lost loved one, she instead summons James - an erratic spirit yearning for connection. Both desperate and lonely, they bond over grief, dance, and punk music… while simultaneously circling each other in a dangerous game of power and control.
In the wake of a failed exorcism, a grieving father does "whatever it takes" to destroy the entity that took his daughter, even if that means committing an unforgivable sin of his own.
Ukrainian woman tries to preserve a sense of normalcy while living under constant threat of Russian missile strikes. A series of short stories about everyday resilience amidst war.
In the heart of a ship bound for the new world, Patience faces the consequences of her actions, until the Captain's punishment is suddenly interrupted.
HAN YUEREN, known as DRUNKEN BLADE in Jianghu, traveled to a desolate desert town to repay the kindness of a meal back then. At the time, the town was being ravaged by swords bandits. The killing intent of Lady Boss also emerges.
Two ambitious women, both orchestra conductors, meet in a gothic mansion and are instantly drawn to each other. But their attraction is complicated when they discover they’re rivals for the same prestigious job.
In the 1970s, Orlando Jesus was more than just a boxer: he embodied the tough spirit of Lisbon with its neighbourhood gyms, intense nights and marginal figures that shaped a generation. An intimate and imperfect portrait, where the camera captures the gestures and voices that still resist, preserving a time in the process of disappearance, the presence of Orlando Jesus and the Lisbon that shaped him.