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.
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.
"Blue Bird" is a letter to the director’s ancestors and a quest to understand the anxiety consuming his body, exploring how memories and the body intertwine.
During a mountain trip, three children spend the afternoon playing war. When a local child asks to join them, he is given the role of the "enemy". This innocent choice will lead to unexpected consequences.
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.
After the death of her younger sister Jaz, 21 year old Chloe reflects on their bond through voiceover narration and a series of emotional memories. From childhood games and private jokes to the painful diagnosis of leukemia, Chloe walks us through the highs and lows of their journey together. Through warm flashbacks and grounded present day moments, the film explores the lasting impact of love and the shadow that grief leaves behind. As Chloe revisits key moments, building forts, fighting with their dad, the hospital visits, and Jaz’s 16th birthday at the beach, we see how much she has held on. On what would have been Jaz’s 18th birthday, Chloe visits her grave. Despite the promise her sister once made, “Don’t be sad”, Chloe ends the film with a heartbreaking truth: “I still am.”
Tells the story of love and marriage between Fajar and Rahma, who come from Javanese and Minang cultures, as well as the conflicts that arise due to differences in family traditions on both sides.
The meeting of Maria and Fafat in a church on Christmas Eve, changed their fate. Maria did not expect that her relationship with Fafat would lead to an interfaith relationship. But the two of them had already fallen in love and decided to marry. When their daughter was born and not yet a year old, Fafat died in an accident. Maria was left alone, patiently raising her daughter Laila, according to the Islamic teachings that had been promised to her late husband. However, Ustadzah Habibah saw that Maria's efforts in educating Laila with Islamic teachings were still lacking, so she wanted to take and educate her granddaughter herself. After her husband, would Maria also lose her child?
Wall to Wall is a triptych of stories created across different moments in time, each orbiting the theme of love: a reunion after a breakup, the quiet friction of daily life, and a conversation altered by experimental influence. Through silence and speech, the film traces the subtle marks left by time.
Yue is a focus puller who suffers from eye floaters. On set, he sees his ex-girlfriend Ting Yu through the monitor. She leads him on a search for a meteor shower that will never appear. In the end, Yue begins to see the reality beyond the frame.
After ten years as an undocumented immigrant, Chuy is deported and must return to the small fishing village in Sinaloa where he was born. Drugs and the cartel have taken over the place, and everyone endures life accustomed to violence. Chano, his first love, is now a feared hitman. In the midst of this hostile environment, their romance rekindles, and Chuy must choose between Chano and the life he truly wishes to live.
Afro futuristic feature in documentary style, of which the story is partly told by archival materials: alien Xoxo experiences, while dwelling in the body of black female Ella, lack of safety and freedom during different lives and in the countries of Ghana, Curaçao, Suriname and the Netherlands
In a lively neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, a lonely seventeen-year-old girl lives with her controlling mother, who knows that Isidora is secretly dating a girl but never speaks about it. During the hot summer days, although she never voices her discomfort, Isidora's mother still restrains the girls' timid attempts to see each other in private. Amid the streets of their neighborhood, Isidora decides not to oppose her mother, to seek refuge in her, and give up her first love.
A movie about a married couple of elderly intellectuals from St. Petersburg. About their wisdom, calmness, optimism, patience and forgiveness. That is, about everything that contemporary people lack. That is why they themselves, their warmth and their house attract those in need of warmth, help and support like fire.