Movies

What would you do if you could fly for one day? As 15 neighbors answer this question, we fly with them. Along the way, it becomes clear that fantasy is more necessary for some than others.

This opera loosely based on the landscape of Mount Sinai – where the body of St Catherine was mystically elevated after her martyrdom – is made in collaboration with score composer Irene Buckley and Colombian-American singer Stephanie Lamprea.

Inside a socio-educational detention unit, five youths in conflict with the law plan their own film as a way to find meaning in their time behind bars. Through a hybrid process that blends documentary and fiction, TWENTY TWENTY FOUR dissolves the reality of juvenile crime and confinement into a sensory experience—exploring rebellion, boredom, and traces of tenderness within a space defined by abandonment.

Artist-filmmaker Htoo Lwin Myo examines some of the earliest pre-cinematic objects portraying Myanmar's colonial past: magic lantern slides. A polyphonous essay on the perils of history and the many stories we can find in the remains of times gone.

The lens of the camera is a key to the senses and the sensual. The close-up renders tactility inviting touch, the obscured image tests the boundaries of the frame beckoning one to enter. But as all the senses are awakened, the lens of the projector relays a distance that cannot be collapsed.

R. James Edwards documents his experience with the medical system and the ways his disability is viewed and grieved for by outsiders through poetry.

An elderly goat herder falls victim to a scam promising long-awaited reparations for her father's WWII service. Structured as a series of recurring visual 'variations', Variations on a Theme is a portrait of endurance and loss.

Hanna is a real estate photographer from Mississauga who commutes daily to Toronto to snap pictures of luxury apartments for a network of shady, elusive corporations. With his debut feature, director Christopher Beaulieu provides an illuminating insight into the notion of liminality and the economic dispossession of younger generations. Favouring a detached approach, where the warmth of his celluloid images clashes with the cold functionality of Hanna’s digital photographs, where the nostalgia of past prosperity seamlessly seeps into the film material, Otium shows a rare kind of lucidity. Probing the spacious depths of empty dwellings, it tells of the contemporary Tantaluses of Hanna’s generation, for whom the gig economy provides dreams of wealth that it will make sure to keep unfulfilled.

A documentary film about the story of MCA, a political organization that emerged from the anti-Franco movement, and which played a key role in the Transition and the 1980s in the structuring of new social movements, feminist, pacifist or environmental, as well as in numerous neighborhood and trade union struggles, and more specifically in the case of Asturias in the linguistic reclamation movement or in the renewal of the San Mateo festivities with the chiringuito Pinón Folixa.

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When two friends discover a cryptic box filled with ancient hints, they embark on a perilous journey across hidden landscapes to uncover a forgotten treasure — only to realize the greatest discovery is far different than what they expected.

A young woman encounters the "eaters", strange creatures who feed on women's beauty to stay alive.

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A nostalgic short documentary revisiting the true story of the LPS Minecraft community. From legendary SMPs to abandoned worlds, it blends memories, mystery, and a haunting atmosphere to uncover the lost legacy of LPS.Community

After the events of Rupert v Nixon the Cult of Cage begins the new leader ritual

An affectionate portrait of the forgotten town of Tapoleng, where church once served as a sanctuary for its residents during the old apartheid order. Here, a new religion emerges – one tethered to a new spiritual practice, community and self-determination.

A street corner in Berlin-Moabit is changing: an aging supermarket is being turned into a construction site and eventually a new building. Shelves are being cleared, walls torn down, breaks taken, and money counted. Between refrigerated shelves, scaffolding, and exposed concrete, the film overlays the different versions of the place and allows them to exist simultaneously. Sometimes playful, sometimes eerie, repetitions emerge, like echoes between worlds.

A low life living in sunny Florida with his retired parents finds a time travel device and meets his future self.

What if women were hidden among the ranks of Ancient Rome’s fearsome gladiators? A group of experts searches for evidence to prove women once fought in the arena just like men. Combining history, archaeology, and forensic investigation, journey across Europe in a quest for answers. If a female gladiator's existence can be proven definitively, what can we learn about their lives?

A young council employee finds himself embroiled in an especially stressful quandary during a seemingly routine work meeting.