Experimental-poetic short film that portrays the director's mourning through a haiku film that has only three shots.
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Experimental university short film about the dreams of the character Maria.
In this haiku-film, Giordanno Bottezini recounts his experience with death from Rabies Lyssavirus and the split-second moment between the complete deterioration of the brain and death; a moment after existence but included in experience.
Where's the girl? Can you hold her for me? I need her now.
Nereu is an upper-middle class university student. He is a young gay man trapped in a time that is not his. Antônio is less idealistic.
Experimental university short film inspired by grief, the passage of time and the filmmaking process
A Video Essay on the work of director Franz Zwartjes.
A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.
A film about filmmaker Sal Galarça's departure from college in December 2023.
Experimental documentary that poetically exposes the reality of public transport in the city of Curitiba.
An audiovisual Haikai in homage to Queer Cinema made with fragments of important films to the movement.
From the series to cinematic version, a story of friendship and promises between two close friends. Nut and Phop are high school friends, but their friendship breaks from unknown reason. One day, they both meet once again. May be this time they will not separate.
One day two people turn up at the office of the advertisement company "FIGA.RO". They are a beautiful girl and a young man, quoting Montaigne. In a short time the couple take hostage the businessman Ivan. He is the owner of the company and its windows face the building housing special services.
One day a sexually frustrated wife is led to a gypsy fortune teller. But when the gypsy reads the tarot cards the wife is told that she must have a man soon or she will die. Not believing this the wife leaves but is soon confronted with several near death experiences that lead her to strange and disturbing erotic encounters.
The film is based on the memories of Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II about his childhood, about his mother and father-priest, about how he went to Valaam with his parents as a child, about the terrible beginning of the war, which cut off his childhood in an instant, about the arrival of German troops in Estonia... Before the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, there are whole strings of complex human destinies. Being next to his father, little Alyosha saw how sometimes it is unfair for an ordinary provincial priest, sincerely, from the bottom of his heart trying to help the desperate, to keep hope and faith in goodness in them...
After encountering a standout colleague from a company event, Liu Ben, a section chief at Zhonghe Group's branch, embarks on a quirky professional journey with him, uncovering their true self-worth through chaotic workplace challenges.
A pickpocket at a bustling local fair is shaken when he finds a suicide note in a stolen wallet. Racing against time, he must track down the wallet’s owner and try to save her, before it’s too late.
After her father's suicide in 1977, 11-year-old Ann struggles with grief, alcoholism, and promiscuity. Exploring her sexuality and self-destruction, she finds solace in art, overcomes family secrets, and achieves acclaim as a filmmaker.
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live and they know it. This shall not prevent the emergence of a great romance in the clinic.
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.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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.
Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.