The Line is a part of Mekong 2030, an omnibus film that envisions the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives.
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The Line is a part of Mekong 2030, an omnibus film that envisions the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives.
Regina McKenzie struggles with still living at home with her parents, juggling questionable career choices, and dating the wrong men. Love on a Two Way Street is a live stage play event that covers the entire emotional spectrum.
The streets are deserted, they run for peace, but peace is the enemy.
After waking up in a stranger's apartment, a man begins wandering through lost memories, reluctantly remembering a part of his past he tried to forget.
A businesswoman struggles to navigate her increasingly alienating world, disconnected from her work, colleagues, and husband. Lost in grief, can she find connection amidst the chaos? A spellbinding, visually surprising drama of modern inner life, told using the expansive metaphors of outer space.
A resident of a ghetto’s neighborhood of São Paulo amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Gustavo has severe anxiety attacks. When he receives a call from a friend who lives in the same street, he reflects different stories of neighborhood residents in parallel with his family's daily life during social isolation.
'Three Comrades' covers 24 hours in the lives of Gleb, Vlad and Gosha, all three in their mid-twenties. After a day of fighting with the aggressive boss and unscrupulous customers, the three young men decide to have a few drinks and unwind. But what was supposed to be an uneventful night out soon enough turns into unexpected and, sometimes, violent adventure.
Linda is a struggling single parent who is raising her mute daughter Annie, desperate for money, she seeks help from a shady guy she met online.
Frankie lives at home with his grandma while his peers go off to school. When a Government notice arrives one day announcing land reform of his village, Frankie is unable to read it. Too proud to ask his best friend Gamat for help, he spirals into rage and later, regret. Bagan tells the story of the final days of a dying village, told through the eyes of a pair of adolescents; when innocence clashes with the harsh reality of growing up and moving on.
When Rue, a young black man pays a surprise visit to his recent ex-girlfriend Ari, things take an unexpected turn.
An ex-priest is in a confession box before mass, revealing a time ten years ago, when he was faced with a choice between his vows and his morals.
Revati and Riya are Best Friends. Riya’s boyfriend do not understand Feelings of Riya and Ignore her with his Macho Attitude. Revati try to make him understand but He keeps ignoring the Situation. Now Revati takes Situation in her Hand and take Unexpected Action which No one has Expected.
Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young Lynn resorts to debauchery to find joy — only to discover that happiness is a much more complicated proposition.
Roma is going through a severe life crisis - troubles in the family and at work have severely shaken his psyche. After another psychotherapy session, Roma is hit by a car driven by his former classmate Vasya, who has been very successful since graduation. Vasya reveals to Roma the secrets of his success and shows new opportunities in life. This meeting dramatically changes the fate of both heroes.
Fraser, 17, is a shy and introverted only child, but he speaks volumes on the court through his passion for basketball. Fraser has a chance to prove himself when the coach catches him practicing after school hours.
With the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, three friends struggle to maintain their friendship through phone calls, but a change in behavior has them questioning the true impact of the virus.
Short film directed by Svevo Moltrasio set during the Lockdown.
Love is yellow portrays the struggle and the pursuit of happiness in Lagos. Oladayo a tech entrepreneur finds a reason to shake off the dust from his once Shiny 'Lagos Dream
A couple meets a TV actress with her boyfriend on the highway, as their car was broken down. They offered them a lift as they were staying in the same hotel. The wife was a big fan of the TV actress. After reaching the hotel, the couple enjoyed in their room, as they have come on a vacation after long time. The husband got up in the night and came outside to smoke a cigarette, suddenly he heard some noise from the TV actresses room.
After her husbands untimely passing, a religious mother becomes negatively obsessed with her gay son and his lifestyle. Tragedy and murder ensue.
Being a woman is a state of becoming. Loving one is a state of being. And to be loving each other is to become power.
A time traveling transgender therapist goes back in time to visit a young transgender boy during his darkest hour.
Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.
Stuck at a crossroad, will Malaya fight for the love she found, or will she choose to set her heart free?
An adopted boy named Bruno wants to follow his dream of becoming a famous musician. His best friend, Thomas, has always been very supportive to Bruno and is helping him making major steps into the right direction. However, Bruno has to overcome some of the biggest obstacles in his life in order to reach this dream.
Clara’s bedroom is the starting point for a mosaic of moments, to provide a glimpse of the life contained therein. The awkward romances, ritualistic tasks, familial tension - the concept of ‘Clara’s Room’ came from a desire to explore the things which play a crucial part in forming who we are.
A luxury condo begins serving as an alluring open house by day, but by night becomes a brief refuge for a family targeted by immigration enforcement.
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime. The music is transcendent throughout and includes the famous Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry in the darkness and vision of hope. Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings together the dark reality of the French Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring message of shared humanity.
Mixes fiction and documentary to tell the story of Marc Helt and his first sexual experience with other men, as a healing ritual after a violent hate crime.
This documentary depicts the stories of four Chinese activists—Xie Wenfei, Zhang Shengyu, Chen Yunfei, and Liu Ping—who faced torture. It also invites Hong Kong participants Chan Ho-wun, Li On-yin, Chen Hung Sau, and Cheung Chiu-hung to experience and reflect on these situations through simulated installations. The film highlights that in the advancement of human civilization, "human rights", "rule of law", and "democracy" are mutually indispensable and interdependent. In countries ruled by authoritarian regimes, the rule of law cannot be upheld, let alone the protection of human rights.
When the physicist Walter moves into a new apartment in the 1970s, he tries to clear up the enigmatic disappearance of his previous tenant and realizes that the old man is haunting him in an eerie way - from the future.
Jake, a transgender boy, tries to face the difficulties of adapting to a new school, finding himself in conflict with his own body.
To survive the old trauma and free herself from painful memories, Shura is forced to return to an ominous episode from her childhood: a little girl meets a strange stranger in an empty house.
Anna Khamasi Omutsani is a widow. One day, her husband Peter Dianga goes to work and doesn’t return home. Anna’s attempts to contact him on the phone are fruitless. After a restless night, the neighbour girl Abigael knocks on the window and reports that she had seen Peter lying in the stream under the bridge. Men from the community pull his body out. The police pronounce him dead, but do not investigate the circumstances of his death. The Council of Elders, convened under the shade of a mango tree, deals with the existential affairs of the community. The Council decides Peter Dianga’s death was an accident, so he is buried properly, to the right of the door of the house. Anna’s greatest dream is to educate her children – the source of Anna’s quiet yet proud strength.
Bashan Red - most popular brand of Chinese cigarettes. It gets name from main production facility on Hongbashan Hill (Red Pagoda Hill), But this movie about another important Red Bashan, mountain near Hanzhong where in 1949 completed war Communists and Kuomintang.
In times of coronavirus, Ana, pregnant, has the need to leave home.
The movie tells a sweet love story about an anchor guild boss, Su Xiaonian (Wang Li Xin), and a popular anchor, Li Mu Zi (Pan Shi Qi), who meet, fight and fall in love with each other.
Alana is living in an abusive house with her drug addicted mother. A bad boy turns good and takes her away to make a fresh start.
Asya works in a clothing store and also takes care of her mother and younger brother. It needs a new coat for cold weather in winter. However, he cannot balance the money.
A young woman attempts to extract meaning from an intense loss as she encounters signs in her daily life and through the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane portrays the phenomenon of magical thinking endured during an individual’s journey to process, heal and document a period of mourning.
After a rocky meeting at a gallery show, Andy, a 20-something starving artist asks a fellow bohemian, Vinnie, out to dinner. With neither knowing what will come out of their awkward and less than ideal meeting, they more or less stumble into loving each other, and find excuses to spend every moment together. As their relationship grows they embark on a mutual journey to find the deeper meaning within their work and their lives, and ultimately put their newfound love to a test they may very well not recover from.
The conversation between two club mates, when one of them decides to quit smoking.
A drama with underlying humor about the shame and despair that 30 year old boy feels on his way to losing virginity.
When her mother forbids her from biting her nails, Sarah has to abide by new rules she doesn't understand. By taking control of her actions and other people's attitudes toward her, Sarah redefines her relationship with others and herself.
Two teenage boys idle away a seemingly ordinary afternoon, but as events stir up hidden feelings, confusion leads to the testing of boundaries.
A young woman who paints her nightmares, her wily much-older cousin, and a small apartment-bound therapy group collide.
Two young men deal with strange feelings. But things are not as easy as it seems.
In a dystopian present, a young Japanese-American man battles the cascading effects of his family's wrongful incarceration in the 1940s.
A young woman who has experienced a deep and painful loss seeks comfort from her past while challenging the notion of space, movement, and sound.
Min-woo has a hard time adapting to his new environment.
Enter the universe of three mujra dancers in Pakistan as they dodge state censorship and violence to vie for stardom.
The three siblings Luca, Maxine & Theo are left alone at home. Their parents have taken away the family’s router on long overdue holiday. Without any internet access, the kids are forced to run free in their deluded state of minds. Events quickly evolve, bloody and evil, for real...
Cana, a Syrian woman, wants to buy a fridge in Helsinki as a part of her settling-down process. To deliver the fridge home, she rides in a van with Ville and Rony where the 3 worlds intersect on themes of coldness, home and exile. Until they arrive, with the fridge, to Cana’s own leftovers.
Nonendless search. Unbreakable cycle. Break point. End.
A fatal accident - a hostage taking in a distant country - brings together an important diplomat, his unfaithful wife and her lover. To be saved, they need to act together, but is it possible, when hatred is stronger than the desire to live, a sense of duty is more important than reputation, and betrayal is higher than love?
At the edge of town, we can reach places we don't normally visit. At the edge of town lies a forest. To reach its source, we must pass through its darkest recesses.
In a world where men hide their true love and feelings, where a mother turns a blind eye to her son's identity, and where religion dictates that a man may only lie with a woman — is everything we see truly what it seems to be? The latest release from New Queer Visions takes a look at representations of boys and men, how desires are hidden from those around them, and how self-belief conquers doubt. The short films are: Adult (2017); Hello, Stranger [Dag vreemde man] (2016); Little Potato (2017); Juan Gabriel is Dead [Se murió Juan Gabriel] (2018); The Guest [Le convive] (2017); Contestant #4 (2016).
A micro-budget 'art drama' about a schizophrenic man who takes his young daughter on a road trip back to his childhood home.
A new mother has spent longer than expected with her baby daughter due to the Covid lockdown - but now she must confront the post-pandemic return to work. A docu-drama filmed 100% remotely during the coronavirus lockdown.