Simon works in a garden center in the south with his mother. Ghosted by Corentin, his teenage world falls apart. The plants in the greenhouse and Hyacinthe may be able to help him move forward.
As detective Evelyn Dubois arrests gangster Billy “the Devil” Dwayne, he gets shot in front of her. In her office with a blood stained shirt, a knock is heard on the door... Her client Liliane Wang comes to confirm the rumours circulating in town. But did she really come only for this reason?
After a rivalry ignited with the street’s garage worker over his power on the street, a professor’s ideals are put into question when his life turns into madness.
Assembled from thousands of clips sampled from hundreds of old public domain films spanning 1890 - 1970 and re-collaged into a new work, Sospiri lives somewhere between experimental and narrative cinema. It is a surreal meditation on memory and the past. Sospiri follows a person’s journey leaving home and their subsequent troubles attempting to return.
Shahnon Ahmad's novel Terdedah (1965) has not been reprinted in decades. This rambunctious satire is about a young widow with two lovers. Why hasn't the book been seen for so long? Did it "dedah" (reveal or expose) too much? Amir Muhammad asks seven artists how they would design a cover of Terdedah if it were reprinted today. Through Zoom, they discuss how the novel can be presented visually. In an unfortunate twist, one of the artists disappeared after agreeing. So this artist is replaced by ChatGPT. The six human artists are Anderson Ee, Fahmi Mustaffa, Hannah, Mark Lee See Teck, Syuq Tone and Yante Ismail.
Several true stories from the 1930s about Stalin’s repressions. One of them tells about a Gomel official who survived an execution in the infamous Novobelitsky (Chonkovsky) forest near Gomel.
This short film documents two single mothers and professional sex workers reclaiming female archetypes: the mother and the whore, beyond patriarchal constraints. They invite the viewer into a bondage session to redefine their intimacy and motherhood. It serves as an artistic and political endeavor to break down the boundaries of traditional motherhood and celebrate their radical friendship.
Every night, Kit dreams of the golden strap — the ultimate prize for the ultimate lesbian mud wrestler. Cheered on by sold-out community crowds, Lesbian Mud Wrestling regularly takes place as a way to raise funds for gender-affirming surgeries for legends like Kit. This latest release from Sapphic Flicks, directed by Kirsty Wilson, is an intimate and playful documentary that plunges you right into the mud, capturing Naarm’s young inclusive lesbian community as it is in 2025. God bless lesbians!
Twelve-year-old Xiao Ai seems to be the only one affected by the death of an elderly neighbor whom everyone called “Crazy Granny”. In the abandoned apartment of the deceased, Xiao Ai begins to form a connection with her neighbor and uncover her past.