"my hands were made to destroy"
this is about the fear that some people might hold thinking that they will always end up being what they were made to be no matter how many times they try to change their narrative.
Social & External
themself
Based on the Persephone myth, this film follows Poppy as she struggles in a cycle of being pulled between her homophobic, addict mother and her girlfriend, Harper.
Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.
A woman suffering silently decides to wage war on the miracle in her backyard.
A naive artist, weighed down by perfectionism, trades his innocence for a life of independence after falling for his muse. Centered around themes of forming one’s identity, independence, and principles, this coming-of-age drama alludes to messages that grow increasingly relevant to a complex contemporary society.
Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for breakfast. But Jonathan never meets his dad. Instead, he is picked up by Lawrence, a pedophile who has been watching him. Now Martha must overcome her alcoholism and her bitterness towards her ex-husband and use her old investigative skills to find her son before it's too late.
A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the guards and of their fellow inmates.
A young Air Force drone pilot struggles to cope with the daily commute between his suburban family life in America and the war he fights by remote control.
The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.
A medieval saga and the surreal game in a chat group gradually give shape to a creature that makes its tracks through the big city. As the plot develops, the urban environment increasingly gains significance, with social and political themes influencing the progress of the story.
Two years after his mysterious disappearance, Aurora's husband appears naked at her front door, claiming he is dead.
Joana, a 30-year-old woman, returns to the rural settlement in Paraná where she spent her childhood to work as a teacher. Her homecoming compels her to confront long-buried memories, including the murder of her father by landowners amid the region’s conflict over land rights. Dance of the Fireflies is a poetic reflection on emotional landscapes, flickers of history, fragments of collective memory, and the social struggle in the countryside.
A young woman grapples with her fear of connection and commitment. Her moments of hesitation quietly shape the course of her days as she navigates missed opportunities and unspoken truths.
Max and Rony have ambitions to become high-class drug traffickers but are drawn into a series of events filled with excess.
Marina Oki recounts her past, how she joined the Earth fleet, and how she became a Machine Man.
A woman tries to stave off misgivings about her long-time boyfriend as she desperately attempts to recreate the best days of their relationship.
When Kit Vincent, a young filmmaker, receives a terminal diagnosis aged 24, his first instinct is to turn on his camera and document those closest to him.
Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseille, is being dragged in chains to the Chateau d'If, a state prison. He protests his innocence, but the jailors laugh and torment him before locking him up in solitary confinement. A few short hours before, Dantes had returned to Marseille from a voyage at sea and been reunited with his fiancée, Mercedes. Her father, Pierre Morrel, promoted Dantes to captain as a wedding gift to the couple. Into the middle of this celebration came the soldiers to arrest Dantes. He is sure he has done nothing that is against the law, and promises Mercedes he will return soon. Then abruptly we realize that the story is being narrated by a bunch of high school kids, who are studying the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" in order to do a play. In their squabblings about dramatic interpretation, the kids summarize the more complicated parts of the story.
Alex is around 40 years old, he is nice and friendly and also addicted to pleasure and sex. He lives with his wife and his two children. A tour of 24 hours in his life.
Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.