Morgan is acting strangely at home and at school, drinking gallons of water and taking excessively long baths. Soon she realizes the dreams she’s been having of the sea are in fact calling her back home.
A modern family embark on a romantic nature trip in an attempt to reconnect. But the peace turns to chaos when their teenage children pose challenges, and the idyllic getaway becomes a comical struggle for survival.
In the capital city of Beijing, a middle school is about to hold a flag-raising ceremony. However, the flag raiser, Feng Xiao, is is struggling with a growing urge to step down. Unfortunately, this is not a gentle winter for him...…
The once-exiled brewer John Christian Kavakure returns to conflict-scarred Burundi to fulfil his old dream: a brewery that frees Burundians from dependence on multinational Heineken. With locally brewed banana beer, made according to his grandmother’s special recipe.
Ode is a cameraless animation made from handmade macroalgae celluloid. Developed with CSIRO and marine scientists, it uses contact printing, botanicollage, and seaweed bio-sonification to explore post-petrochemical cinema. Lasting 365 seconds, the film offers an ocean-responsive meditation on deep time, material intelligence, and more-than-human collaboration.
When 19-year-old Frankie finds out that her sexual assault case has been closed due to a 'lack of evidence', she turns to her best friend Chloe, who encourages her to go back and confront the justice system that failed her.
Solitary teen ANI (15) is intensely devoted to her glamorous older sister, Casey (18). But when Ani stumbles on Casey’s fake, AI-generated OnlyFans-like account, she’s unsettled to discover Casey has cloned the voice of a real woman for the persona. Ani, however, has her own internet side hustle. As the girls test their boundaries online, they're drawn into the murky morals and strange thrills of hypercontemporary digital life.
In the ancient ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, archaeologists unearthed a papyrus scrap containing the earliest known Christian hymn, complete with both its lyrics and musical notation. Analyzed at Oxford University, this discovery challenges traditional views of church history by revealing the rich musical practices of early believers. Hosted by Australian historian John Dickson, the feature-length documentary “The First Hymn” chronicles the hymn’s journey from its desert origins to its modern resurrection, as acclaimed composers Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding transform the ancient melody into a contemporary worship piece, culminating in a live concert performance.
Crossing the world's greatest oceans, traveling along a river, or tumbling from the sky: even the tiniest drop of water can have great adventures! And along the way, it can have some strange encounters... From vacationers playing on the beach to a little girl in a boat, not to mention a whole host of creatures, each stranger than the last, its journey will be anything but peaceful: one thing is certain, it won't stay stuck in a jar! A program of five short films that explore water in all its forms, immersing you in wonderful aquatic worlds.
The queen shined as the headliner on Saturday night with a mega iconic show. Between glitter, aesthetics and hits like Good Luck, Babe!, she created a party full of freedom and attitude.
A short film about the forever stagnant versions of ourselves that exist in the hearts and minds of the people we've left behind as we grow and move on with our lives.
A disenfranchised birdwatcher heads into the woods to find solitude from society, but events soon conspire against her. Will she go to extreme lengths to preserve her tranquillity? Darkly comic thriller.
Like so many young men of his generation in France, my grandfather was sent to the Algerian War — a war that still haunts him when he has to move into a nursing home. Moving into his house, I try to make his walls, his garden, his memory my own. How to live with the legacy of a ravaged world?
A woman rides between real life and fantasy in her pursuit of romance. She dreams of a lost love, only to meet again a man she used to know, during a summer holiday on an island she used to visit when she was younger. She must separate reality from fantasy and decide which one she wants to experience.
A daughter searches for a film script, driven by her father's last words: "I can't die because I didn't make a movie." The film is the incomplete and obscured unfolding of that man, that mystery: an unusual family man, with a variety of jobs and no success, who uses a camera like an obsessive, someone who lives his life observing others.