Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head — only to learn that she can’t hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else’s past.
On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family's traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.
A young film director decides to invite his weird friends to the millionaire villa in Venice. Vittorio directs a cinema with a surreal and abstract look, conditioned by his mental disorder. He and his friends ask themselves: Where is the limit between the real and the imaginary? Is God dead? Do we live in a real freedom? They all receive a long-awaited invitation to reveal their secrets and find the right answers to their questions.
Four countries, four men - and four encounters that will call into question everything about themselves they thought they were sure of. Just when you thought things couldn't get any more complicated, along comes a boy to add a fresh perspective. The 4 short films are: Billy Boy (2021); Summer [Verano] (2022); Fabiu (2023); Czechoslovakia [Checoslovaquia] (2022).
Over a weekend visit in Los Angeles, two-first generation Sierra Leonean American brothers navigate the changing dynamics of brotherhood after a surprise announcement.
Cesare is an introverted boy passionate about cinema, caught up in the problems of his life. One day his best friend, Aurelio, suggests that he shoot a film himself, but apparently Aurelio is not a reliable friend, and leaves Cesare at the mercy of his emotions, his thoughts and his nightmares.
An adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.
A cozy fire, cookies and cocoa (full mugs this time!), and a favorite uncle, played by Evangelical headcase Kirk Cameron, to read the Christmas Story. It's tree trimming night for the Barnes family – and a young, logical guest who thinks the Bible is just another story. Then, as the timeless words of Luke and Matthew unfold the events of the first Christmas, something wonderful happens. The Bible comes vividly to life!
After being fired, Marcella, a gentle hearted mother going through separation, buys a tow truck; she gets trapped deeper and deeper in a cynical and aggressive world until a terrible opportunity shines in front of her.
A young, politically liberal, Iraqi Muslim immigrant struggles to find her footing in a neighborhood of well-to-do conservative, Iraqi Christians while battling her family's fears of deprivation and demands of loyalty to Muslim traditions.
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.