The story of a young adult who embarks on a journey into her mind, which takes the form of an amusement park filled with rides representing her psyche and creatures reminiscent of her thoughts and feelings. During her journey, she learns to accept herself, flaws and all, by meeting and interacting with her inner child.
After traditional crops failed due to flooding, the town of Guiguinto, Bulacan found new hope and identity in cultivating ornamental plants. The documentary Guinto't Punso showcased how this agricultural shift blossomed into the vibrant Halamanan Festival, a symbol of community resilience and a thriving green economy.
An agama lizard finds the perfect excuse to exchange the boring and slow-paced life of the Hinterland for the fast-paced and success-paved streets of Lagos. With his band of music-loving friends, they set out on an arduous but event-filled adventure to make it big and conquer Lagos. Will they find success or redemption?
In 2021, Asumi, a salesperson at Kobe Steel, was having a difficult time finding meaning in her job while she felt helpless in the face of the company’s numerous issues. Just as Asumi was about to tell her boss that she wanted to quit, a mystical ray of light came out of a corporate history book and led her to Kobe in 1905. There she encountered visionary, high-spirited people from Kobe Steel's founding period. Torasuke was among them; he was a clumsy but enthusiastic young man from the Meiji era who dreamed big and believed in the potential of industrial development. Guided by the Kobelco Group's history, two persons from different eras set out on a journey across time, from its beginning to the present. They witness people get through tough times and continue to take on challenges with hope for a better future. After coming into contact with the founders’ spirits, they each choose their own path for the future.
The universe is waking up to itself, prophets are receiving visions, and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance are toppling over. There is an aura of pathetic surrender surrounding you. Armies formed from eating scraps emerge, ready for battle, with powerful weapons fashioned from air, through the effort of their sheer will, realizing that the foe isn't the force it seemed. The fourth film in Jonni Pepper-GoLions' "The Blindfold" series, which includes her films "Wasteland", "Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners", and "Barber Westchester". This film sets up the upcoming finale to the series, "The Cone Layer".
Two newborn turtles aim to reach the sea by crossing a garbage city whose crustacean inhabitants—distracted by city life—avoid helping them. It will be their duty to find a way to reach their destination through the hostile adversity of their surroundings.
A resource-poor woman named Diana has to resort to prostitution to be able to eat, but one night she is drugged and kidnapped by a group of men, taken to the outskirts of the city and then raped, but she tries to separate herself from her situation and her pain through dissociation in the form of a series of lucid dreams where she explores her tragic past and her unstable present without imagining the dismal future that awaits her.
Inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to the mysterious power of it's women.
With the memory of an online relationship he had with a girl in his teenage years, @YOU embarks on a journey in which he reflects on distance, love, fragility and the uncertainty of knowing the whereabouts of the girl who, a few years ago, said goodbye saying that she would end her life.
In a forgotten village, a woman lives as the last inhabitant of a place filled with shadows and silences. One night, she finds herself trapped in a disturbing nightmare: a wake where ghosts pray and a single empty grave awaits. This strange ritual forces her to confront the limits of her memory, where the past and the echoes of her existence intertwine with death, revealing hidden truths about her loneliness.
Nico lives on a shore isolated from the world. Her house is by the sea, covered by a pile of leaves that make it look like a large mound. Nico seeks independence in solitude, but by distancing from the world, she has also distanced from herself. She spends her days carving stones, collecting leaves, and avoiding the other inhabitants. Nico sees herself reflected in the surface of the sea and realizes she has no face in the water's reflection. A large wave overwhelms her, and she loses her house key. To retrieve it, she dives into the sea and swims into the darkness, surrounded by flashes of light. After her underwater experience, Nico chooses a new way of relating to the world.
Kyiv, before 24 February 2022. A family is trying to make ends meet— though the fridge is permanently empty and the electric meter has sharp teeth. Then bombs hit the building across the street.
Flowers dance and transform in water, using strobe effects and superimposition. A meditation on life cycles through botanical animation, continuing Jodie Mack's material exploration.