Cinematic Era: 2021 Vintage

Elisha, a young religious teen dealing with his attraction to men, is torn between two worlds — the religious world from which he comes and the secular world that attracts and seduces him. He goes through a shaky journey that has him facing a decision that will shape his life.

When a Latina transwoman in East LA is on the verge of losing her daughter to child services, she begins to unravel as she is forced to confront her buried traumas and fears.

The feature film that brings together 12 shorts by youngsters of the suburbs of São Paulo, addressing issues such as the lack of work perspective, racism, right to housing and homophobia.

One chance encounter and a night spent together help Magda to discover what she probably doesn't need to live anymore and what she might need.

In a fairy tale world, a winemaker creates the most exquisite wine in the world. When Death herself wants to taste the wine, he discovers that his bride is next on Death list.

Stage registration of the first musical comedy special by the Dutch songwriter and comedian Kiki Schippers. Schippers sings and tells about love and death.

Eifel landlady Toni Janssen has the blues. The unexpected single life is just as depressing as the decline of the "Kupferkanne" without the cooking skills of her "ex". The otherwise tough restaurant owner would prefer to crawl under the comforter all day! But giving up is out of the question for her mother Heidi. The fact that the Janssen women have been making it on their own for generations is their motto in life anyway. The best example: Heidi's newly opened guesthouse, which is often fully booked! It's not just business success that has a rejuvenating effect on the optimistic woman in her mid-fifties. Ron, the gardener hired by the investment-happy business founder, surprises her with his charming advances. What Heidi initially finds hard to believe soon sends her into a frenzy of love.

A solitary taxi driver roams the streets of Prague with his dog, searching for someone willing to hear him express his sorrow over a personal tragedy. Over a day and night, he picks up three different groups of passengers, but is mere companionship enough to ease his grief?

Mater Mortis is a short narrative film that asks what the limits of family bonds are under the weight of illness. Rajan must care for his mother, now afflicted with a condition that makes her the living dead. Relations between Rajan and his father fray as tensions rise to a head in this meditation on family, disease, and the right to life or death.

Avocado Toast is a story about Adam, a hard-working, plays by the rules family-man, who risks everything he has by experimenting with "millennialism."

In this pandemic-era concert film, clipping. (aka Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes) perform a collection of their greatest hits, as well as numerous tracks off their acclaimed 2020 album, Visions of Bodies Being Burned. Due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, this concert was performed for no audience at Coaxial Arts in Los Angeles, California.

Twenty-somethings Chloe & Dominic misguidedly kidnap their favorite former child star, Amanda Campbell, in hopes of returning her to her former glory.

A girl running for her life finds out that the monster she is escaping from, is closer than she thinks.

Two young people walk together late at night, sharing a cigarette. They search the smoke for connection and finally say the things that have been long left unsaid.

Documentary exploring the subject of the existence of the afterlife based on 12 years of research conducted by doctors, PhDs, and research scientists.

Matan arrives in a crime neighborhood after his father goes bankrupt and loses their home.

'Intended Parents' is a short film about a Black millennial couple, seeking to expand their family through surrogacy. With one partner identifying as a transgender woman, the couple (Alexandra Grey as "Robyn" and Lawrence Locke as "Anthony") find themselves continously educating or being imprisoned by outdated traditions and opinions from loved ones. While the film explores the intersections of love, gender, surrogacy, acceptance, and desperation; the powerful couple aims to deflate multiple negative stigmas as they prepare for the life-alternating roller coaster of fertility and surrogacy.

A family gets themselves into hot water after a mysterious package shows up on their front doorstep by accident. Meanwhile, the owners of the package, track it down in an attempt to salvage it before their time runs out.

An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.

In a ghost town, Luna seeks to help her brother Balám from whom is in danger, before fainting, a being disguised as an old man appears in front of her.

The film tells the story of young musicians from three different nationalities pursuing their musical dreams and embarking on a journey of music, singing and dancing to reach the masses and feel life

Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later. Her son Joseph, while still grieving for his loss, sunk into a long and absurd bureaucratic path through the inept system that disowned his mother as a victim of the blast. Minerva is gone. The explosion has snatched her soul, and the city walls have not yet recognized her as a martyr. There is no poster of her smiling face among those of the victims. Their faces are memories that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Perhaps her son, devastated by her passing, seeks to etch her image into the city's memory. Perhaps he is seeking some confession to the crime. This is a place that casts out its children, whether dead or alive.

In 1990, child star Spencer McPerving released his musical "Swamp Surfer" which became known as the most offensive, terrible work of fiction ever created. Spencer has been missing ever since and all recordings of the musical were destroyed. Now we follow documentarian Zoe Whiteman as she tries to learn more about Spencer McPerving and what led him to make such a disastrous musical.

After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.

Zolita's debut album "Evil Angel" will be performed live for the first time as a theatrical performance piece directed, produced, and designed by Zolita and her cult of girls collaborative team.

A young sailor Sasha travels the world and sends letters to his father from every city where the ship stops. But all his letters remain unanswered for many years. Since childhood, Sasha has not seen his father, he does not have his phone, only the postal address has been preserved. For him, one-way letters have already become a ritual. But one day, returning home from a voyage, a sailor finds a reply letter in his mailbox.

Toronto stripper Andrea Werhun was ousted from her club by the COVID-19 lockdown. Now, she's taking business online as a muse for lonely men while struggling to realize her own creative ambitions.

March 1944. Rome is under Nazi occupation. Elena and a group of young partisans decide to rebel.

Eddie Vedder plays live at Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA on September 25th 2021. >> EDDIE VEDDER: Don't Be Shy (Cat Stevens cover), Far Behind, Rise, Wishlist (Pearl Jam song), Society (Jerry Hannan cover) (with Glen Hansard) >> EDDIE VEDDER & THE EARTHLINGS: Drive (R.E.M. cover) (no break between solo set and band set), I'll Be Waiting, Tender Mercies, The Haves, My Father's Daughter (Olivia Vedder cover) (with Olivia Vedder), Hard Sun (Indio cover), Long Way, Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash cover), Corduroy (Pearl Jam song), I'm One (The Who cover), Better Man (Pearl Jam song) (with "People Have the Power" outro), Precious (Pretenders cover), Give Blood (Pete Townshend cover) >> ENCORE: Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover)

A flawed Army General attempts to guide an impossible African country through a viciously strained era in this first of its kind, authorised biopic, based on real events.

After assassinating the President, Amos Otis pleads self-defense and must convince the jury that America was not only under attack by its unhinged ruler - but that his actions saved the country and the world.

Aylin, who lives with her mother in Istanbul, is continuing her university education. In the harsh conditions of life, they exist with a new "deceptive" business model that suits the desires of today's city dwellers.

The Tindalls are on the surface an unlikely pairing of a Wakefield-born rugby union player and the daughter of the Princess Royal born and bred in a royal palace. This programme looks at their life together, from the highs to the lows, revealing how they carved out successful careers for themselves and supported each other along the way.

In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground at the very start of their careers. Through interviews with family and friends, found photos, and archival footage, Piero’s daughter, Thérèse Casper, explores the promise and perils of leading an authentic, creative life, and the impact that it can have on the people you leave behind in the process. Wondering if she can make peace with her absent father if she can find a connection to him through his art, she explores the artistic legacy and life of a man she never knew.

A little boy is kidnapped outside his neighborhood. Her mother decides to seek for him while authorities disregard her case.

A group of war photographers, trudge through a barrage of explosions, searching for the perfect shot.

The “At Home with…” team spends some time with football referee Nick Mullins, a man who has dreamt of being a referee since he was a child. We follow Nick as he copes with life in lockdown during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has kept him away from his beloved job. Nick opens up and gives us an insight into his life, his passions and his dreams for the future.

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. On one side of the Iron Curtain and on the other, throughout the Cold War, the USSR and the United States sought to shape children’s imaginations through their magazines and films. Never in the history of mankind have so many comic books been published and so many cartoons produced for young people. In November 1989, communism collapsed with the Berlin Wall; capitalism was left to decide the future of the world. What if this victory had been prepared for a long time, and our thinking conditioned, from our early childhood, to ensure this absolute triumph?

After serving in the Iraq War, a father grapples with PTSD and struggles to come to terms with the horrors he has witnessed.

A romanticized biography based on testimonies and the trajectory of the great lady of the stage: Tônia Carrero (1922-2018). In this final show, the actress mirrors with the audience decisive moments in her life and career, immersing herself deeply in the whirlpool of her memory. Among facts and memories narrated with her strong personality, she ends up unveiling a hidden fragility, which demystifies the human being behind this great persona, who fought until the end for her talent to be recognized above her undeniable beauty.

In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life. Gently lit and accompanied with a soundtrack of soaring strings, this film by Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet explores vulnerability, connectedness and a renewed sense of self among the autumn leaves.

Dania is 21 years old and grew up in a Christian community in the Faroe Islands’ Bible belt. She has just moved to Tórshavn and is seeing Trygvi, a hip-hop artist and poet locally known as Silvurdrongur (Silver Kid). He comes from a secular family and writes poems and texts about the shadow sides of humanity. Dania herself sings in a Christian band but is fascinated by Trygvi’s courage to write brutally honest lyrics. As she tries to find her place in the world and understand herself, she starts to write more personal texts. Her writings develop into a collection of critical poems called ‘Skál’ (‘Cheers’), about the double life that she and other youths must live in the conservative Christian world.

Sisters Kristina (Deborah Joy Winans) and Vicky (Lisa Michelle Cornelius) receive an early Christmas gift—a luxurious vacation at an exclusive resort—from their Aunt Debbie (Marium Carvell), who hopes to bring them together after they've grown apart since their mother’s death. The sisters are less than thrilled by the idea of spending time together: Vicky loves Christmas, whereas Kristina no longer enjoys the holiday without their mom. With strong convincing from Aunt Debbie, the sisters reluctantly accept her gift. Once they arrive at the resort, Kristina and Vicky run into Reginé (Kyana Teresa), a famous singer and one-time best friend who left them behind when fame came calling.

When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career - and when his service ends, neither the UK nor the US welcome him back. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier experts - and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters - Heval gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it.

Nadia Nadim, whose dad was killed by the Taliban in 2000, has embarked on this quest. The young Afghan woman, her 4 sisters, and their mother fled Kabul in the wake of the violence. Today, the Taliban have returned to rule. Football passion is what saved Nadia. She became a striker on the national team of her adoptive land, Denmark, then for the Paris-Saint-Germain women's team. Nadia, having achieved football stardom, wants to return to Afghanistan, to find out more about her father's fate. But the country is torn by terrorism as the Taliban and ISIS sow chaos daily. Giving up the trip, Nadia must grieve for another loss. However, she is unsinkable, and has plans for the future: graduate as a reconstructive surgeon and heal her people.

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico.

This short documentary is about the Asian Expulsion of 1972, when General Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda expelled 100,000 Asians from the country and gave them 90 days to leave the country. The films shows how the expelled Asians struggled to leave Uganda and get refuge in other countries like the U.K, U.S and others. The film also tells about their struggles in those countries in finding jobs and fighting racial injustice.

In Georgia, two stranded Nigerians, Obinna and Afame, navigate the sleeping city of Tbilisi after a long night out. However, as day breaks the true colors of their ambiguous affection begin to show. In this way, they find solace despite their hostile environment.

A Father gleefully goes about his day, connecting to the world through social media. When disaster strikes, he discovers thoughts and prayers are not enough.

Like an annoyance to the eye that makes you cry. Like the smell of a forgotten garment that brings back the shadow of a person you no longer talk to. An inconvenience without a clear source or cause. Get rid of the inactivity and calm until then before the big outbreak. Separation is a difficult and painful thing, but what happens when one is confronted with memories and thoughts of the past that one can not turn off? The film follows the lonely and anonymous protagonist through a day that will be an important part of her healing process after a separation. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

A little girl has a birthday dinner with her father that she'll never forget...

A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack.

Lucas participates in an acting workshop in which everybody has to pretend to be someone else. Each day, a participant disappears without leaving a trace of its existence and Lucas seems to be the only one noticing it. Would they have a different assignment? Could he also mysteriously disappear?

Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists' agent, to be the executor of her will. Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end. Anat, consciously accepting her nearing end, wishes to leave a spiritual legacy: there can be a happy ending. Almost a decade after her death, her loved ones try to fill the void left by her words with their own. Through excerpts from her plays and footage of her family and political world, a new script is written: one in which the line between the play and reality is blurred.