A new government regulation in Argentina sparks an escalation of police violence during protests. Amid the chaos, Agustín and Mateo take refuge in a parking lot, carrying their friend's body, while the killer police officer relentlessly pursues them.
In communist Czechoslovakia in 1984, Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot. But her father, a widowed Ruthenian farmer, insists she stay and work the land. When her village faces destruction due to a new dam, their generational conflict intensifies, revealing the struggle between tradition, identity, and the desire for freedom in a context of historical change.
There was once a man quite sure of himself. Once a day he would have a stroll near his town. On one such occasion, he spotted something he had never seen before: a tortoise. He examined it thoroughly, noticing it's every detail; soon he ran home to tell the family. But would they believe him?
An explosion in the subway takes Rasul's life, leaving his family grieving for his son for 15 long years. However, on Memorial Day, Rasul returns home. The family is shocked - the joy of reunion is mixed with the bitterness of the question “Where have you been all this time?”. Rasul is evading the question, and each member of his family has their own assumptions about this.
Storage spaces are strange half-way points, full of pieces of different people, conflated. A place to meet a past on borrowed time, a place that swallows all the old versions of you and slowly digests them with dust. It becomes unclear which parts of this archive belong to you and what has folded into someone else. Indistinguishable forms and masses with a name on them, some sunbleached or broken, hold moments that you were only a partial witness to.
At the heart of Věc Makropulos is a recipe for a life-prolonging elixir invented by the doctor Hieronymus Makropulos for Emperor Rudolf II. It was tested on the doctor's beautiful daughter, who has now been on earth for 337 years and has had countless affairs over the generations. In the end, however, the seemingly young woman has to realize that an endless life on this side of the world only brings loneliness.
MORENA tells the uplifting story of the Philippine National Surf Athlete Ikit Agudo, who overcame the pressure to blend into a society obsessed with skin whitening. Within the ocean, she found happiness, strength, and pride in her roots. Inspiring young girls around the world to embrace who they truly are. In the Philippines, skin-whitening remains a billion-peso industry, a legacy of colonial beauty ideals that for generations have led many to neglect their true identity and natural beauty.
After several years in which Justice has almost completely disappeared from the public agenda, Romanian society has woken up to a difficult reality, in which high-level corruption cases are systematically buried. Famous defendants acquitted on appeal after receiving heavy years of imprisonment in the first instance, trials delayed until the acts reach the statute of limitations, final convictions that are re-evaluated and wiped clean. In addition, suspicions have begun to hover over the DNA regarding the blocking of criminal investigations.
The documentary follows Nicolas Vlavianos (1929-2022), a renowned sculptor, in the final years of his life. It captures the moment — when he is around 90 years old — that he returns to an old drawer, tries to pick up his tools, and realizes he no longer has the strength to hold them. That simple gesture becomes the symbolic trigger: the end of his long creative cycle and the beginning of a farewell to his art. From there, the film documents the dismantling of Vlavianos’s studio and workspace, and the gradual process of his withdrawal from physical creation. It’s not just a retrospective of works: it’s a portrait of decline, memory, mortality, and legacy.
Despite his disembodied companion housed in a red rotary phone Kim is in for a lonely Christmas until a chance knock at his door on a cold Christmas eve might just change all that…
At the top of Serra do Padeiro (BA), the Tupinambá people resist invasions, reaffirming their original right to the territory. Leaders such as Dona Maria da Glória and the shaman Seu Lírio guide a daily life of care for the forest, rituals, and spiritual strength. The film is an intimate and political testimony of a continuous process of reclaiming and affirming the traditional existence of the Tupinambá people of Serra do Padeiro.
In A World That Won’t Stop Singing is a documentary following two people with musical anhedonia, a rare condition where music brings no emotion, as they experience a music festival.