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After discovering her skin is peeling off, a bored mother is compelled to bake it into little pastries.
After retiring in 2022, Squel Jorgea decided to return to Rio’s Carnival. A flag-bearer for over twenty years, she began her career at Grande Rio, where she danced for eleven seasons and became the first to represent both Mangueira and Portela, the two most traditional samba schools. After navigating single motherhood, she has rediscovered the physicality, movement, and strength that established her as a leading figure in the art form; she now dances a theme inspired by the book "Um Defeito de Cor", a son’s letter to his enslaved mother, a narrative that deeply resonates with her own life story. Between the silence and the beat of the drums, her dance transforms into a ritual, an act of resistance, and a celebration of Afro-Brazilian culture.
The film follows a man struggling to balance a life of crime with a life of piety, as he is forced to confront his sins to both masters. How they praise him may be different, but it is through his struggle between both worlds that he tries to answer the question- can you faithfully serve two masters?
When a young abused housewife runs away from home she finds herself in a 1970’s utopia in the woods with a ragtag group of misfit hippies. Is she free or did she give up one prison for another?
In 1960s New York City, Terri Thal was a manager of folk musicians, including Bob Dylan, while Richard Kostelanetz was a pioneer in the literary avant-garde. Now, sixty years later, they've met online and fallen in love.
Aaron is at the beginning of his adult life and is struggling with the responsibilities that come with it. He is still searching for his place in the world, while also doing his best to ensure that his little brother James grows up in the best possible circumstances.
In the auto-fiction film L'enquête de mon cœur, French filmmaker Philippe Vallois wakes up to a strange reality: evidence and witnesses prove he spent the winter in a passionate romance with Bruno, a young Brazilian man. However, the director suffers from complete amnesia regarding the last three months. With Bruno already back in Brazil, Vallois launches a personal investigation to uncover his own forgotten story. Blending documentary and fiction, he attempts to piece together and virtually relive the romance using video footage from his camera, his personal journal, and the accounts of close friends.
In a strange, purgatory-like room where workers exchange small bundles for coins, Prudence notices an elderly blind woman waiting in line. She offers to help, but her seemingly good deed soon takes an unexpected turn.
Seven characters whose stories intertwine and collide in the squares of small towns, where the town band's music is more than just a pastime: it is an invisible network that unites people, bridging generational gaps and keeping the true soul of the communities alive.
A newlywed interracial couple Mike and Ava move to a new home set on starting new beginnings, but an historical evil, locked away for years, is about to break free and wreak havoc on their relationship and their lives.
Wugou Village faces cultural erasure as young people migrate away. The ancestral farmlands and grand "huofang" estates have become hollow monuments. Alan and her friend Amei remain within these quiet walls. Their daily exchanges capture the profound resilience and quiet fate of traditional Hakka women.
An acrophobic suicide jumper and a hitman pick the same rooftop to end a life.
The Mamu Nikantetau expedition, meaning "Let's Move Forward Together" in Innu-aimun, is an annual walk aimed at promoting reconciliation and living together.
Valleys of the Earth is a story of redemption set in a post-apocalyptic United States several years after an enormous solar plunges Humanity into a new Dark Age. From the ashes, a militarized cult known as "the Watchers" rises. Led by their prophets, the Watchers believe this apocalyptic event was brought on by their Angels, and that it is as a means of giving humanity a fresh start. Isaac, our protagonist, attempts to flee his past and right his wrongs. Along the way, his story becomes entwined with Kellen, a young woman fiercely dedicated to upholding a promise she once made. If the two are to survive, they must learn to trust one another; however, the Watchers are everywhere, and will stop at nothing to recover what they have lost.