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Ruth is an eccentric, determined woman who wants control over everything. Even death. So, she goes to Zurich for a tidy, orderly exit. But her chaotic granddaughter Lori gatecrashes, and will not go back home without her. They have an unexpected holiday together.
An observational documentary follows four twenty-year-old missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who come to live in the Balkans for two years. In the heart of secular Slovenia, they attempt to find new converts on the streets, all while living under strict rules: they are not allowed to listen to music, have limited access to the internet, and must never separate from one another.
In conjunction with the exhibit opening of “Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled,” the Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Olivia Rodrigo to the Museum’s Ray Charles Rooftop Terrace for an evening celebrating and discussing her newest critically acclaimed album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, her creative process, career, upcoming tour, and more. Attendees will have an opportunity to enjoy rooftop views, a café with food, and a cash bar prior and will have the chance to view the exhibit post-program.
Edhi Alice: TAKE begins from the perspective of Alice, a gaffer pushed out of the field, as she confronts her own body, and transitions into the journey of another protagonist, Edhi, who discovers a new sense of embodiment. The narrative of transition expands beyond a personal life story to encompass relationships, bodily experiences, and the sense of space, becoming a cinematic transformation.
In the garden of a colonial villa in Bujumbura, five actors gather. They were summoned here to rehearse a theatre piece about a future in which all international organisations and NGOs have left East Africa. But now, as the director herself is not there, they cannot do anything but wait, and share a few stories. Nested in a mythological setup with an absent director, an unruly fictional character, a ghost and a wanderer, they tell stories about the sphere of development aid and the inequality it claims to fight. After an essayistic introduction, their narrations drift between report, fairy-tale and gossip. In an attempt to grasp a an increasingly elusive world, these monologues were developed out of stories, ideas and experiences from 5 years of artistic research and exchange between a Burundian and a German filmmaker.
Captain Georgina Lee captures and interrogates Ellis's handler on why she was sent to disarm weapons. But a piece of Lee's history is brought up that she can't escape.
Gemma and Amber grow closer on a date, which throws Gemma into a surreal conflict across the different arenas of her body. Her Fear and Desire wage a battle that disrupts their fragile, budding connection.
With only two months left to live, Sofía makes one final, unexpected request: to spend an intimate night with her former lover. Determined to fulfill her wish, her devoted husband Ángel sets out to find the man, who has been missing since 2002. What follows is an outrageous journey filled with deception, unexpected complications, and increasingly absurd situations that challenge the boundaries of love, loyalty, and marriage.
Set between 1980s rural Indiana and a Dominican reform school, a white sister and her adopted black brother fight oppression, prejudice, and rigid dogma to survive.
A videotape capturing the final moments of an amateur urban exploration group, who break into the long abandoned home of an unsolved murder.
Lana Reyes, once a very prominent MMA fighter, made the decision to walk away from a successful career in order to have a family. After raising her son alone, she decided to step back in to the cage to do the one thing she knew how to do. FIGHT. On the night of her comeback fight, after a brutal two rounds, she shakily steps into the third round with a fractured hand a potentially career ending TBI. She shakily steps forward and by the grace of god sees an opening that only instincts would see that ends up winning her the fight. 3 months later, before properly healing up, she takes another fight. Her interactions with her Cut man, Manager and the Commission Doctor lead her to the decision of choosing between walking out injured --- or walking away from the sport before it takes everything she has left.
A man has something to hide from his date.
When a headstrong student gets trapped in a school bathroom with his racist bully, he must force a confession before they're found, or his final chance at justice will be lost.
When urban development desecrates a sacred tree, a foreman silences the inexplicable afflictions that have taken hold of a migrant worker, only to dig up histories that refuse to be buried.
In Mexico City, during a visit to their patriarchal grandparents' house, rebellious seven-year-old Lucía and her siblings will stumble upon something that will change their lives forever: their grandfather's revolver.
Haunted by the collateral damage of his own ego, a young man sits with a notebook of past regrets and attempts to heal by leaving behind a message of forgiveness rather than fear.
Margarita and Evaristo, a peasant couple, live alone in their hut at the foot of the Malintzin volcano. Every day they wait for the Techiq bird to announce the return of their son, who migrated long ago in search of work and has not returned. One morning, Margarita falls ill, and a forest creature appears before Evaristo. Is it death, or something more?
Stranded walletless in Japan during his sister’s medical emergency, an Indonesian student finds his ultimate lifeline in a single QR code.