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In a quiet Maharashtrian village, Janardan, a halgi player, inherits a family tradition he no longer believes in. For generations, his family has lived off the rhythm of the drum, but for him every beat carries caste, shame and suffocation. As events push him away from the halgi, his silence grows louder, until destiny pulls him back.
A film about how the concept of humanism is refracted through the band’s work. Faces and voices fill the frame, the surrounding space, the auditorium, and everyone watching the screen with meaning. Simple conversations about dreams, fears, favorite foods, or childhood memories are no longer idle chatter, but a way to bridge the distance—an attempt, time and again, to truly see the person before you, even when the instinct to look away is at its strongest.
After her daughter moves away, Dalva begins hearing strange noises in the house where she has always lived. As she becomes aware of the cracks in a daily life that is slowly falling apart, something seems to be trying to emerge.
When a global pandemic shuts Hong Kong’s borders, hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic workers are stranded far from home. Among them is Sonia, a strong-willed Indonesian domestic worker whose world is shattered when she learns that her mother has died. Unable to return home, she takes it upon herself to organize the funeral from afar, piecing together a final farewell through a livestream thousands of miles away. But she’s forced to choose between her mother’s final farewell and the woman who depends on her for care.
Sultan, an illiterate elderly woman, searches for her hospitalized husband's room. Wandering through the hospital's labyrinthine corridors, she crosses paths with completely different lives and confronts the harsh realities of life.
When a bite from an endangered eel starts replacing an unsuspecting scientist’s skin with salt, the scientist must give in to the unstoppable force of transformation. With a muted, earthy color palette, this hopeful short finds peace in the often painful process of becoming something, or someone, new.
In the remote mountains of Kurdistan, an old couple mourns their beloved gazelle. The following night, a strange young boy with hooves appears at their door, and as the darkness lingers, their world begins to slip into myth, memory, and legend, while the night no longer ends.
A team of filmmakers travels around Lithuania’s summer festivals – from Midsummer’s Day and Assumption Day to the first day of September, which marks the end of summer – capturing short, playful moments of their journey on 16 mm film. By asking people they meet about miracles, faith, childhood, and memories, the filmmakers unexpectedly reveal hidden stories and sensitive confessions.
From the earliest times, people have wondered what awaits them after death? And although no one has managed to penetrate the core of the mystery, over the centuries there have been people who... knew and saw more. Fulla Horak, St. Faustina Kowalska, Bl. Father Stanisław Papczyński and St. Padre Pio - these are mystics who received the grace of being visited by the souls in Purgatory and who for a moment could see the final judgment, heaven, hell and what is most mysterious - purgatory.
Obsessed with understanding his Vietnamese girlfriend's final words before her suicide, a grieving young man seeks help from a therapist who speaks her language. Only to break down, as does meaning in the face of grief.
Lucia faces everyday challenges while trying to stretch her budget for her brother's birthday present. To afford it, she rents out a room, but her expected roommate vanishes without a trace. After learning about ongoing protests in Iran from a neighbor, Lucia finds out that unarrived guest is Iranian too and tries to call her.
Two 60-ish Taiwanese men share ambiguous closeness, built on ritual and obscurity in an old local bathhouse. Amidst a near-death accident, the body offers a final confession, revealing a lifetime of repressed desire that surfaces only when time runs out.
Giovanna, a twelve-year-old born and raised in a small village near Grosseto, possesses an extraordinary imagination and cannot come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, Mirko—who has left her all alone to face the bullies at school. Determined to uncover the truth, the courageous girl sets off on an adventure all by herself.
Kristina Savutsina set out to make a film about an incident in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, where a capsule containing a highly radioactive element was accidentally sealed into the wall of a flat in a prefabricated housing block in the 1980s. Yet within a set built to replicate the original flat exactly, the project became a refractive documentary, turning its attention towards the filmmaking process and the filmmaker herself.
A desperate film student stranded in Los Angeles without a summer internship lands an interview with the mysterious producer Vip Armé. All the while, she's haunted by visions of the legendary silent-era director Lois Weber, America's first great female filmmaker.
