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Wedding planner Joanna needs to find herself a fake boyfriend to cheer up her depressed father. As if on demand, an eccentric undertaker enters Joanna's life with her own motives for looking for a girlfriend. At the same time, Joanna receives some earth-shattering news and nothing can ever go back to the way it was.
Based on the Stephen King short story: A middle-aged traveling salesman contemplates his life choices at a shitty motel in Nebraska.
In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the industrial revolution. The 100-year-old machinery has been endlessly repaired. State aid kept this sustainable alternative to plastic going, but its future looks bleak.
It follows Kathy, a food critic in New York City. Her parents ask her to come home for Christmas, and there she meets a handsome police officer, which now complicates her situation.
Orlando and Lyse's is a fairy tale, a modern tale of an old man and a little girl who, unwittingly, find themselves facing the present together and the choices it brings, despite their being as distant as the rural life of a small inland village and the metropolitan life of a large European city can be.
A group of American women, drawn by the promise of transformation at the hands of an influencer guru, travel to Bali where their lives are thrown into messy chaos.
On a night like so many others, indistinguishable from the previous or the next, Carlos sees himself thrown out of his bedroom. Beyond his own door, a rat has taken over his belongings, without a courtesy call or warning. This is the second work by João Niza Ribeiro screened at Curtas.
A short mockumentary that explores the life of Monkey Man, a fish out of water who is forced to adapt to a new dark world.
The story follows a lonesome middle-aged man who works as a driver for hire (which is a common side hustle in Saudi Arabia for people looking to earn more money), the main character goes through a series of circumstances that force him to make difficult decisions.
The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering and structural failures that caused the collapse of a bridge that stood for over a decade, also took down the most luxurious train of the day, “The Pacific Express #5.” The accident happened in Ashtabula, Ohio on December 29, 1876 during a raging blizzard, sending the luxury train crashing 70-feet into a river gorge and costing the lives of 97 people. The disaster shocked the nation, yet it’s a story that’s been lost in the pages of history. In a strange twist of fate and intrigue, the bridge disaster also became the backdrop to the still unsolved murder of Charles Collins, the railroad’s chief engineer. It also contributed to the eventual suicide of millionaire Amasa Stone, the president of the railroad and the designer and builder of the bridge.
1954 - Panic erupts when the citizens of Bellingham, Washington notice strange cracks in their car windshields. What is causing this mysterious phenomenon?
Mabel (13 years old) is attracted to Ambroz (10 years old), whose mother forbids him to play with her because “she is older than him”. The game between them takes place in secret and in a forbidden place. Ambroz's innocence prevents him from deciphering the dark mystery that surrounds Mabel's life.
Story of a person’s fear who is associated with a financial crisis and undergoes legal issues
The true story of an operation which was a revolution, not only for the world of medicine. Frankfurt 1967. A young doctor called Lisa Scheel is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor in favour of a male applicant, on the spur of the moment Lisa heads off to Cape Town. Here, she starts work for Dr. Barnaard, who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki, who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Experimental short film that reflects through the voice of the protagonist, poetically, about a fateful intimate and personal event.
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Zdena, a young nurse, starts her first night shift at an old people’s home and immediately faces a difficult task: she has to deal with the body of a deceased client. A gentle portrait of faltering youth and a realistic tale of an encounter with death in a blend of physically intense moments and absurd humour.
The next film in the Chupa La Mingus Anthology, follow up to 2019 special event film, Chupa La Mingus Presenta: Vida Y Tiempos.
An iconographically already dead Christ, who assails life and goes astray, performing miracles with only the power of despair. In Antonio Rezza's reinterpretation, Jesus Christ never utters a word and expresses himself only with heartbreaking screams, capable of healing man and performing all kinds of miracles.
An inspiring drama that shows the triumphs and pains of a group of high school students who are victims of bullying, and how one man can make a difference.
A mother's quest to find her missing son leads her to the gates of Mictlán, a mystical place where souls parade to their final destination.
Fragments of love in an eternal journey of memories or looking for eternity that belongs to us.
After colliding with a train, the non-binary teenager Mayonnaise ends up in the limbo between life and death. Now, they must escape the Cat of All Dreams and the Gender-Thieving Alien — and, of course, stop themselves from crashing again with the HEART-STOPPING TRAIN. Will they make it out… or stay stuck forever in this cosmic mess?
By fabricating her biography, Luo Su, a young Chinese white-collar worker from a low-income family, hopes to wed Mr. Win, an alluring bachelor. But when her mother's shocking TV interview exposes her deceit, she loses everything and ends her own life. Left in limbo, she is mystically given one last opportunity to alter her fate within 72 hours - albeit within the body of a man.
The rise of the extreme right in Brazil from the perspective of artists whose works were censored.
A group of students decide to make a documentary on the Gumnami Baba theory, attempting to find the truth behind the idea that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose spent the remainder of his life in the guise of a sadhu. What starts as a research project gets them involved in sinister events, some of which are even life threatening.
On the battlefield, asoldier is struck by abullet and loses his consciousness. When he comes to his senses, he finds himself in another world. He meets a Stone Age warrior, a medieval warrior with a sword, and two soldiers – from World War I and World War II. The soldiers from different eras begin to argue with each other about one thing – whose war is more sacred.
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
A law enforcement officer has to remove people that are homeless in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.
In a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From that moment on, a confusing chronicle of the last day in the girl's life begins, during which she will travel a long way - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yankee's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, arguments with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.
Picks up on the journey of the 'Boronia Boys' gang from sleepy Boronia to the big wide world.
An agoraphobic and washed up rock star is confronted by a nosy new neighbor and an imaginary nuisance pressuring him to leave his house and rejoin a life he both fears and has forsaken.
In a society under lock down and self isolation, it can take just one phone call to unravel a person's world.
Eager to boost his popularity and success on YouTube, a young teenager attempts to create a fake video where he destroys his little brother's laptop in order to gain fame.
Abhirami-Leo couple leading a very happy family life, until Madhava Das, a multi-millionaire business man unexpectedly comes in between them and exploits Abhirami's adoration with his money and fame.
Eric and Ariadna are students of an anachronistic restrictive school. In love with each other, they decide to disobey the rules hoping not to be discovered by their teacher.
A young Taiwanese woman on the run finds friendship and shelter in the home of a lonely grief-ridden widower.
Fabio is a young trans man mourning the end of a love affair. Louise is ill and away from her family. Amid a polarized and bigoted society, he is her caregiver while she becomes his rock. Now they have each other to learn to say goodbye.
After another sleepless night of partying and getting high, Jordane finds Chléo home, her little sister, anxious about a strange water shortage. Quickly realizing that the lack of water is affecting the entire city, Jordane faces one of her worst nightmare and embarks on a crazy road trip on foot through the streets of Marseille to stop their thirst.
In order not to continue living in fear and torment of conscience, the writer writes an incriminating article on himself and his colleagues in the writing workshop in a Samizdat magazine. Since that day, he has been in disgrace, colleagues and friends have turned away from him, there is a vacuum around him. Every night is the last for the writer, he is waiting for a person to come after him who will silence him forever. This man will one day come out and appear as the hero of his new and last book, which, alas, no one will read.
In fantasising about their future and basking in their illusions of success, two college freshmen wrangle with the problems of the present as the ghosts of the future haunt them.
The story of the survival of a tribal student singer. It discusses the neglect and resistance of our society.
Comedy animated creation about the amazing adventures of Khmel, on the way to the ancient history of bakery products
While at New York Fashion Week with her best friends, Parker finds trouble following her again when a designer goes missing – and she’s the prime suspect.
The editorial office of the television program "Paranormal Cherepovets" receives a letter from Alexey. The young man claims that he is communicating with a higher mind. The film crew wants to bring the "contactee" to the surface, but is faced with strange events.
A labourer approaches the police to find his wife, who has mysteriously gone missing just a day after delivering a baby. What has happened to her, and will justice be served?
A fragment in the life of a woman with sensory disturbances. The discontinuity in the perception of the temporal flow threatens the affirmation of our own existence.
Women and men in the middle of the night, without their own clothes, without personal papers and money, without their car keys and mobile phones. In a deserted city the only solution would be, regardless of how far home is, to walk alone all the way there.
A broken woman’s search for solace lands her at a black baptist church in rural Mississippi, where an eerie encounter leads her to unsettling truths.
Estere spends her days by the sea selling ice cream. Trying to find peace, she listens to meditation podcasts and self-help books. Meanwhile, strangers caressed by the summer sun look for the same in tarot cards, alcohol and the Bible. Estere starts to imitate overheard conversations: stuck in positive self-verbalization, she repeats it until she believes it.
A mother and son are in their apartment. They urgently need to leave. But something is preventing them from doing so.
In the year 2039 in Moddergat, a small coastal village in the Netherlands. The delegation of the international climate tribunal has little time to prepare the human sacrifice that will avert the dangers of climate change.
When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.
Stuck is how Imari Jacobs views his mundane marriage with Adea. With no spontaneity in their relationship, Imari questions if he can continue in the marriage. Imari finds excitement when he meets Phoebe, a breathtaking supermodel. From that moment, her beauty bewitches Imari. In time, Imari learns the hard way that his infatuation with Phoebe may be deadly.