A woman utilises her acting skills to persuade the powerful to aid underprivileged women. They discover that acting is not simply a job or a hobby, but also a skill that can be utilised to help overcome their problems.
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A woman utilises her acting skills to persuade the powerful to aid underprivileged women. They discover that acting is not simply a job or a hobby, but also a skill that can be utilised to help overcome their problems.
Elena wants to record her song in a good studio. Desperate, she reconnects with an old privileged friend to ask for the money.
The movie, which highlights the importance of community, seeking professional help, and how taking responsibility, counselling, faith, courage and forgiveness can be therapeutic by bringing healing and restoration to hurting souls.
A group of friends in suburban Ohio who hangout after school almost every day gets bored. They then decide to start playing poker and chaos ensues.
Charlie is a mystery - one that Ethan can't wait to decipher. But the secret she's hiding is bigger - and more dangerous - than he could ever guess.
John lives for football and will do anything to make a career from it, even if it means facing the prejudices of the changing room.
The film records the dreams, confusion, desires, and transformation into someone else. Who is that person that we are very familiar with?
She Creates Change tells the true story of young Diksha from Nepal who overcame discrimination and went on to challenge unjust traditions in her community. She Creates Change film series was created for Room to Read NGO, will be released in October 2023 to commemorate International Day of the Girl, aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls globally with content and educational curriculum that supports them in creating change in their communities.
A dementia stricken elderly man is disturbed by a mysterious chirping sound in his flat. With the emergence of a cricket, he finds himself in the forest where he finally embraces the shadows of his past.
Jip and Mijntje meet at a party organised by their mutual friend Lino. The sparks fly immediately and they grow closer as the months pass. Suddenly Jip gets the feeling that Mijntje doesn't really know them as well as they thought. Jip starts to doubt their connection and realises that their 'situationship' has reached a dead end.
A black and white collection of unified patterns and change.
In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family.
A short portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.
Based on true events. Unfortunate circumstances prompt a young woman to recount her story, from her birth at a mother and baby home to a life spent wondering about her lost family.
After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity. MAKING BABIES is a minimalist comedy drama that takes a bittersweet look at a couple’s life, with its doubts, its challenges and its resilience.
Paul struggles with growing older and longs for the days of his youth, because of this Paul is a coke addict trying to recapture the feelings he used to have, creating stress in his marriage to his "High School sweetheart" Sarah.
Josué, a 15-year-old boy, visits his mother, with whom he doesn't have a good relationship, which leads to certain conflicts. Being in his old house, Josué remembers moments from when he was a child, which brings him closer to her.
A young man looks back on potent memories of friendship as he prepares for the next chapter of his life.
A recurring dream disturbs Juan. Together with his psychologist, he will try to understand what is happening, while the line between dream and reality blurs.
A young Chinese Irish woman meets the man of her dreams at a foreign language film club. She discovers the next day through social media that he has died. Piecing together who he was through his online life, she begins to wonder what could have been.
Tom is a ten-year-old boy who lives with his family in a small shack in the suburbs of Paris. His dog Django is his best friend, a landmark of affection in a house that often lacks it. When his parents violently separate, Django disappears. Tom goes in search of her.
The assistant to the district akim is instructed to deliver a round sum of money to the official by tomorrow evening. The assistant puts it off and decides to go out with a friend in the evening. In the morning, he discovers the missing money. Now he needs to remember yesterday's route and get the money back in time.
The story of a simple pair of shoes, and their owner.
"Daisy's Final Goodbye" is an evocative animated tale based on a true story. It chronicles the heart-wrenching journey of Steven, a PTSD-afflicted veteran, as he grapples with the profound loss of his devoted service dog, Daisy. The weight of this farewell is almost unbearable. As a poignant homage, filmmaker Steven Long crafts this narrative five years after Daisy's departure, celebrating not just her unwavering bond, but also honoring the countless canines who've embraced us as kin.
A dining table, four people and one package. As they look for answers to their questions with the closed box in front of them, their burdens begin to get heavier.
Little Red Riding Hood is a 12-year-old teenager who lives in the city. On the way to school, she experiences an escalation of dangerous situations, which will take her back to the original story in the forest.
An experimental essay film reflecting on love, temporality, memory, absence, and living with HIV.
A man goes to a bar.
Mario is a lawyer with a brilliant career who starts working for a renowned and prestigious law firm. There he is reunited with his childhood friend, Jaime, whom he has not seen for more than 20 years. The extremely competitive and conservative office environment is not the best place for his childhood memories and other issues affecting his personal life to surface.
Sarah goes to her parents' anniversary weekend accompanied by Hermione, her girlfriend's ten-year-old daughter. But the absence of the latter does not take long to raise questions.
The enemy of man lies within
Spurred by a provocative family memory and a lifetime of separation from the country her mother left behind, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother’s complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.
On a sunny June day, Kaname summons old friends to the wilderness with a purpose, but only Fuku arrives.
When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner’s Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera stage. Join us as we embark on a spectacular journey into the world of myth, dream and memory, with the figure of Erda – Mother Earth herself – at its centre.
Em works with her Dad on his lobster boat, but her mother, acrimoniously separated from her father, wants to give her a chance for a different life.
Lydia is an inveterate habitant of the Moldavian village, who is incredibly concerned about the opinions of others. When her husband dies, she wants to bury him following all the rules. A kind-hearted neighbor, Clara, reminds her of an old tradition – pomana, gifts in honor of the deceased. Lydia is shocked that she forgot about it so much, that her husband’s death fades into the background. But even though the family tries to reach out to Lydia, she is only concerned about what people will think about her.
A boy is playing with his Super 8 camera when suddenly everything goes wrong... Cuadro is a harsh and visceral short film about childhood trauma. About how it changes and destroys us, only to remake us into something completely different.
Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa. Solveig now contemplates if she should include Sibusiso in her will. Under the pretence of a holiday trip she travels to meet him.
An interview from acclaimed business youtuber Noah Kagan introduces us to the most based NYU student, Based John.
Andrew and Nina reunite when Andrew moves into a new place in the city. As the day passes, they mould the empty apartment into a home, awakening dormant feelings from their past.
A short film, based on a true event, that explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
The red-lipped model lives in the showcase of a women's clothing boutique on a commercial street. One day, when she meets the new plastic model from the store in front, she is overcome by a dilemma.
Ali, a blind man, is attempting to commit suicide when he is interrupted by the concierge of his building. He is informed that the police is in search of a woman who has escaped and hidden somewhere in the building. Little by little, Ali finds out that the fugitive woman, Leila, is inside his apartment. After participating in a workers’ protest that led to chaos, she is distraught about her four-year-old son who was lost when she was taken in a police van. Gradually, Ali becomes emotionally attached to her. Wishing to flee reality, helping Leila becomes a refuge in his own world of imagination.
All is fair in love and war, but you must be careful how you treat people because what goes around definitely comes right back, and in this case, Karma came, and she was wearing Gucci heels.
A young woman, Emma studying at university and living at home with her mother and brother in the Adelaide suburbs, falls in love with a cafe waiter Nick, who lives and works in the town of Stirling in the Adelaide Hills. Entranced by the man and the town, she begins to feel a sense of excitement and vitality in her life.
East Germany after the fall of the Wall. Beate opens up a store, which hardly anyone notices. Steffen travels the country with new products and Jan struggles with his job creation program. A memory log with gaps from the year 1992.
A spiral into the inner workings of a man
Alan Zhang's film delves into the journey of Beibei, a young woman grappling with societal expectations amidst the COVID-19 epidemic. As Beibei navigates the complexities of life, marriage, and her roles as a wife, mother, and daughter, the film provocatively questions the constraints of conventional gender roles. The film immerses us in the life of Beibei, who refuses to let her identity be defined by others, who demands the right to find out for herself who she is and what she wants. Moving from city to city and from lover to lover, she defies society’s expectations of what a woman should do and be. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, the film boldly challenges traditional gender expectations, showcasing the struggles and triumphs of emancipated women like Beibei.
The story of a grief stricken, broken young woman named Kimberly, who grows up to be the ruthless master mind behind a criminal syndicate of desperate, poor women from the township, who disguise themselves as domestic workers, to rob rich people living in the suburbs of Johannesburg.
It portrays a Teochew family over six generations in Swatow, China, from the 19th century to the present. As background, the film will set under the great upheavals of China and the temptation to migrate.
Hannah lives a content, hard-working life in the small town where she grew up. To her visiting older brother, she's just wasting her time. As their Summer together winds down, Hannah gets what wasting time really means.