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Inscribed on 16mm, animism sings anarchy is a performative and poetic attempt to translate archaeological research and materials into songs, feelings, movement, and altered states. The film draws on the late Lithuanian anthropologist and archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’s research into Neolithic matrilineal, animist societies—a source of inspiration for artists, academics, and environmentalists associated with second-wave feminism.

The story of the moth, where Teodora Alonzo's story sparked patriotism and courage from her son, the Philippine National Hero,o Dr. Jose Rizal, as he remembers the story not about the danger of the flame but what it can symbolize to his countrymen.

A documentary that explores the role of faith within the LGBTQ+ community, delving into how belief, spirituality, and identity intersect in deeply personal and often complicated ways. For centuries, mainstream religious institutions have positioned themselves in opposition to LGBTQ+ lives, shaping a narrative of exclusion, judgment, and silence. To say that the treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals by many orthodox traditions has been “unkind” is to understate the pain, rejection, and loss countless people have endured in the name of faith.

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Trapped in the subway crowd, Ella falls asleep, waking up in a world where dreams and reality intertwine, and strange beings offer her an escape from her reality.

25 years after leaving, queer Romani photographer Béla Váradi returns to his rural Hungarian home. In spite of deep self-doubt and external resistance, he organises an exhibition of his work, an act akin to an intervention in a country where Béla's identity is subject to state repression.

Bellwether Corporation rings the bell of success in society and anyone that works for them is well-respected in the city. It has always been Sunny’s dream, as her life was set up to work for Bellwether. In order to be accepted in the company, she must complete an examination alongside other participants. Their social class has a determining fate on whether they can proceed. Luckily, Sunny passes their requirements, and is able to complete the series of tests. But she is left in dismay learning the true nature of the company, which asks her to compromise her principles in order to be accepted.

In a slightly dystopian version of our reality, the Fontainhas neighborhood - Porto - is at the center of a dark plot of real estate speculation. Disappearances and other disturbing elements arouse the suspicions of one of the neighbors.

A birth worker by day and a dancer in a strip club by night, Nevaeh navigates two very different worlds, in both of which bodies are judged and celebrated. As she reclaims the beauty and agency of her body while defying societal labels and expectations, she generously invites us to rethink our assumptions about sex, labour and healing.

Determined to complete the most extreme level of North America's oldest and longest cross-country ski event, three women traverse an unexpectedly serene and peaceful winter landscape on their two-day journey of exhilarating glides and challenging terrain, showcasing the impressive stamina and resolve required to reach the finish line.

In a Marrakech call centre, sales calls to France become a profound meditation on voice, distance, and who gets to be heard.

Despite their different aspirations, backgrounds, and origins, Ilyasse and Pauline, scientists in their early twenties, share one common dream: escaping to the moon to address Earth's problems. Each of them dedicates all their resources and efforts to achieve this goal. But what if space was political, and what if dreaming was too?

Palestinians are fighting annihilation in maternity clinics, too. Like many wives of prisoners in Israeli jails, Hind is trying to smuggle her husband’s sperm in order to conceive a child and cling to hope for the future. But the operation is risky: sperm has a short shelf life, and she must race against time, checkpoints, and traffic in the West Bank, while bombs fall on Gaza.

The Interpreter follows Amjad, a Syrian refugee in the UK, as he retrains to become a community interpreter, returning to the very system that once interrogated him. Revisiting his own asylum interviews, Amjad navigates the charged dynamics between interpreter, displaced and authority. Through staged re-enactments, the film interrogates the ethics of neutrality and the interpreter’s role as both voice and barrier, where translation becomes an act of subversion and connection.

Along an old country road, where an ancient legend of the sea, wolves, and men lingers, three generations of women come together to face a deep sadness. Something is changing: the time has come to remember buried dreams, mend broken ties, consult the tarot, free themselves from their fate and bring the old legend back to life.

The libretto of this opera tells the story of D., a young boy called to military service. Desperate to escape his fate, he seeks advice from the Mysterious Lake. It sends him off to seek salvation deep in the bowels of the city, where the march of autocracy will eventually engulf him.