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On a desolate beach, a nudist looks for a cruising encounter in the dunes. A surveillance drone interrupts the ritual and naked chaos turns into an absurd act of salvation.
Goodbye to this stellar version of Swans. Newly Sentient Being features superb recordings of Swans’ final concert of the “Big Sound” era, the apotheosis of 15 years of cosmic sonic expressionism, alternately heavenly and debased, visceral and transcendent.
Eunyul possesses a special ability to glimpse what lies ahead for her - but only when she sits on a certain bench on her home island of Geoje. Carrying Robert Walser's The Walk, a gift from an ex-lover, Eunyul returns to her hometown. There, she meets her senior Minjeong and Minjeong's partner Jigeun, someone who remains a painful memory for Eunyul. A stranger also travels through. And in these encounters, she comes face to face with herself.
An adventure written in the stars and across time.
Treading Water is a short film directed by Takashi Ogawa, selected for the competitive Asian Students' Film Conference section of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival, where it will have its world premiere.
When her beloved British grandmother Iris arrives just in time for Christmas, Nora, a warm-hearted small-town schoolteacher and devoted single mom, finds her carefully ordered life beginning to shift in ways she never anticipated. Settling into their cozy coastal Southern town, Iris brings with her six generations of family Christmas ornaments, an arsenal of proper British recipes, and an unmistakable talent for gentle meddling.
After joining Mindshare, Evan begins experiencing vivid flashes of a life he doesn't remember. The company insists these are normal side effects of neural acclimation, but Evan soon discovers that his memories have been edited, replaced, and repurposed. As he uncovers the identity of the man whose memories he carries, Evan realizes he is living a borrowed life, and Mindshare will do anything to keep him from reclaiming his own.
At the final match of a fencing tournament, Anja watches her son lose to one of his friends. When his rivalry turns into racism and violence, she becomes the only witness to what truly happened. Torn between shame, ambition and the fear of admitting the truth, Anja finds herself caught in a profound moral conflict.
Defying his father's wish to pass on the family reindeer-herding business, a young Evenk decides to leave for the city to work—a choice that becomes a personal tragedy for the herder.
Christine Sinclair scored more international goals than any player in soccer history, men’s or women’s. Moving between the roar of the world stage and the quiet moments behind it, the film reveals a leader whose power lived in restraint, yet she carried Team Canada from underdogs to Olympic gold. A story of how quiet leadership can leave the loudest legacy.
A retired detective and his cousin launch a rescue operation when the detective's daughter is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, and law enforcement isn't doing their job.
As Hanna and her ten-year-old niece, Erle, get ready for a day at the beach, Hanna is faced with a dilemma: How can she manage to be both a cool aunt and a good role model in this situation?
In a stagnant mountain pool, A-Mao fishes for a hidden giant lizard, dragging others into a bloody, infectious madness. Paralyzed and numb, his broken husk crawls back to the murk. At his physical limit, can this eerie desire drive his will to transcend the flesh?
A 10-year-old boy encounters two teenage bullies with his pet rabbit on his way home from school. He needs to think of an escape plan while the two teens confront him with sinister games and an impossible choice.
Sewn together in flesh and locked away from the world, Alba and Rubra live under the suffocating grip of a castrating mother. While Rubra accepts their fate in silence, Alba is driven by a visceral need to escape — though the freedom she imagines may not be what she truly desires.
Khader and Aviv, a Muslim-Jewish gay couple, dream of starting a family. Yet, amid the joy of pregnancy and the rise of far-right extremism and war propaganda, they are forced to confront a difficult question: What does it mean to bring a child into a world torn by conflict?
The director finds herself torn between her newfound role as a mother and the loss of her own place as a daughter while caring for her dying mother, in an intimate portrait of life starting and ending, and of how loss can become the foundation for new beginnings.
On the eve of her wedding, a young woman unravels the boundaries between love, violence, and desire, discovering that the deepest form of intimacy may demand the ultimate sacrifice.