The movie follows Maruko, a cheerful little girl who returns to school at the start of the new term, where she is grouped with her two friends, Ono and Sugiyama.
Drawing inspiration from Isaac Julien’s 1984 work Territories, this incisive film traverses six carnivals across England, critically examining the politics of image-making and spectatorship.
Svetka grew up in the countryside but moved to Moscow. While spending summer weekends with her parents, she meets her high school sweetheart, tractor driver Sasha, and her long-forgotten feelings for him rekindle. Sasha reciprocates his feelings but can't break his relationship with the milkmaid Masha. A few days later, Svetka's suitor, Serzh, arrives. Their plan to take his beloved to Moscow falls apart when the saleswoman, Lyuba, enters their complicated love affair.
A romantic adventure at a hunting villa in Karelia turns into a real nightmare for Lina. After being cruelly treated by her lover's brother, she becomes the victim of a deadly hunt.
The film, using the years 1919-1927 and 1951 as its timeline, presents Li Dazhao's tireless efforts to save the nation and its people from multiple dimensions and in greater depth. With extraordinary courage to be a pioneer and shoulder moral responsibility, he actively spread Marxism, igniting the flame of hope for the Chinese proletarian revolution and becoming one of the important founders of the Communist Party of China. Furthermore, the film, based on the pioneering thought led by Li Dazhao, resonates with the values of contemporary youth, achieving a dialogue of faith that transcends a century.
Daniel (Martin Pechlát) is a successful architect who has just completed the design of a skyscraper that will soon become a landmark of the city. When he is about to tell his wife Kateřina (Anna Polívková) the joyful news, he learns unexpected news in return. Kateřina went to the doctor, who found out that her kidneys were failing and the only long-term solution was a transplant. So to give or not to give? This is the question Daniel must solve. Will he offer his wife a kidney, which may cost him his life, or will he not offer, which may cost him marriage? And how will their friends Erik (Mira Nosek) and Diana (Barbora Seidlová), who hoped to enjoy a carefree weekend and celebrate Kateřina's birthday together, step in?
Leonardo, an obituary author, lives an isolated and disillusioned life, which is completely turned upside down when he befriends an eccentric group of ghosts. Among them there is also the spirit of Leonardo's father, in a youthful and enthusiastic version that his son does not remember ever experiencing.
A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling the binaries of life, death, gender and parasitism. Monuments to female saints become poses of living queer memory, as skeletal remains are transformed with embellishments. A mosquito draws blood with its proboscis and hormones are drawn using a syringe, as the remnants of an extracted zone is now overgrown with lifeforms.
Seoul, 1996. Wastewater from developed film reels is dumped into the sewers. From this toxic discharge, a monster awakens, carrying the memories of countless movies imprinted on the film reels. Burdened by a vanished past, the monster wanders the city.
In this heartfelt re-enactment, Suni and Alondra discuss a return to their home in the Andes and what their future wedding could look like. Together, they contemplate blending their new experiences in the U.S., contemporary beliefs, and traditional ceremonial practices.
From outside, the world seeps into the ear, threatening with all its possibilities, live and in color. So better to turn around once more, close your eyes, and keep on dreaming. Yet reality is harsher: Pull yourself together! Open the window! That window which grants surprising insights from astonishing perspectives, and which also opens in the cinema, that place of unexpected answers to unasked questions. With precision and perfection, Joanna Hogg shapes that threshold moment of unrest and resistance, followed by the realization that nothing better could possibly have come to mind in order – finally! – to move and to act.
During choir formation practice, eight-year-old Yao Xiaohui, a delicate and quiet boy, is placed in the girls’ section by his homeroom teacher. Later, when school uniforms are distributed, he is mistakenly given a girl’s uniform. Rather than correcting the error, Xiaohui – naturally reserved and introspective – continues wearing it to class, unsure whether it is truly a mistake.
While on tour for their sophomore album, emo band HOME IS WHERE pulls up to venues across the country and provides moments of community, celebration, and freedom for their trans-forward audience as well as themselves. Energetic performances are the bridge between moments of vulnerability for the two trans women who lead the band and the fans lining up to see them.