A tough, no-nonsense Buffalo has always seen himself as strong, fearless, and ready to take the world. But when his long-awaited dream of fatherhood finally comes true, he is thrown into uncharted territory. As he stumbles through the challenges of parenthood, one question looms: Can he become the father he always dreamed of being, or will his fears get the best of him?
The Paraná River as landscape, culture, tradition, and contested territory. In his own words, Luis “Cosita” Romero, a local guide and environmental rights activist, recounts the struggle against the Paraná Medio mega-dam project. Thirty years after that crusade, he continues to raise awareness about environmental protection and the dangers of extractive industries.
Everything is dual, everything has two poles and its pair of opposites. Extremes meet, all truths are half-truths, and all paradoxes can be reconciled.
Lito is a capybara who, with his mate gourd and thermos, is always ready to make friends with the local wildlife, creating new discoveries, games, and ideas to the rhythm of chamamé music. Always near the river, he encounters ducks, herons, armadillos, jaguars, and caimans.
Counterpoint with the Devil is a story set in the Paraná islands, conveying a fantastical love story. Pepe Olga, nicknamed Tape, falls asleep on a cattle trail in the reeds and gets into an argument with the Devil, the owner of those trails. It's a story that shows how ingenuity and creativity can defeat even the Devil himself.
Amor Trava is a portrait of Aurora, a teenager in transition. This documentary explores her future plans, her fears, and her relationship with her mother. Her life is aesthetically shaped by the Ballroom Movement, an LGBTQ+ space for liberation and expression that seeks to end the hiding of the body and reclaim the rights of diversity. The film is filtered through the work of Morena García, a transvestite/trans writer and activist.
Larissa reminisces about her life as a young English girl living in Santa Elena in the 1970s. With a photo album, she builds a bridge between her emotions and memories, linked to the meatpacking industry and her life in Entre Ríos.
Moses, a twenty-something seasonal worker on Fire Island, navigates the tempestuous waters of pleasure and connection in a journey to become an artist seen on their own terms.
Struggling to provide for her young son, a resilient Indigenous mother finds unexpected solace in a charismatic street performer whose warmth conceals his own fragility. As their bond deepens, the pressures of poverty, prejudice, and personal sacrifice threaten to tear their fragile family apart.
In The Outer City (Bayırşəhər), one of Baku’s historically and architecturally significant neighborhoods, large-scale demolition has already begun, placing the city’s memory under threat. For over a year, local residents and architects have been fighting to protect the historic buildings, the urban fabric, and Baku’s unique identity from the excavators’ bucket — yet the scope of destruction keeps expanding day by day. “Beneath the Ruins: The Outer City” is the follow-up to the documentary “Framed: The Outer City.”
As Agnes opens up in a documentary about creating her latest EP, she unpacks the emotions she’s long buried, especially about her ex-boyfriend and former drummer, who’s about to get married. In making music alone, she finally learns how to move on by herself.
In a mist-shrouded swamp, Raaja, a quiet, introspective boy, captures a red Siamese fighting fish with his friend Gila, a curious chatterbox. What begins as a simple act of fascination turns into a haunting meditation on life and the bonds between living beings. Raaja learns from an old bird keeper, Pak Tok, that every living thing we hold becomes our responsibility, its life, its fate, its death. When Raaja’s care turns to obsession and the fish dies, he confronts the painful truth about love, loss, and letting go. Set against a haunting natural landscape, Sayap is a poetic tale of innocence, mortality, and the delicate balance between human hands and the wild soul of nature.
Disjointed moments from the filmmakers’ daily lives during the past year. Captured on a 1985 VHS camcorder with color and luminosity distorted by its failing color Newvicon tube. Cut with distorted tape-recorded fragments of nostalgic broadcast television ephemera. Scored by whatever was handy— from an ambient electronic song with a surprising amount of pipe organ (Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel) to midi versions of your favorite SNES soundtrack (Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambience, Opening, and Treetop Rock) to a not-quite-right rendition of a song that will make you want to say “Oh, Angelo, that’s tearing my heart out!” (Xiu Xiu – Falling). A voyeuristic peak at home movies that exist somewhere between soon to be forgotten and forgotten long ago. The occasional dot matrix time stamps in the corner of the footage somehow make it harder to place in time.
Members of the trans community gather to memorialise those who have passed away in the preceding year, and talk about issues of discrimination, violence and suicide faced by the community.