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When Emma Bennett, a teen girl living in the South, finds out life changing news, she has to find a way to navigate it with the help of her best friend Oliver, all while keeping it a secret from her step brother, Jake.
Motu and Patlu chase John into a time portal after he steals a precious diamond locket, sending them 900 years into the past into the ancient city of Andherius.
To get acquainted with her deceased dad, whom she never met, a filmmaker follows the traces of him in her mother’s memories and the artifacts that are left behind. Along the way, she writes letters to her father—letters that cannot be sent.
Renowned climber and explorer Leo Houlding takes his family to the remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan with a clear objective: to attempt an unclimbed peak deep in the Tien Shan mountain range.
As a result of a series of unexpected coincidences, one of the three closet-sitters gets out from his natural environment, but in his absence longing for the friends starts to crystalize…
A troubled writer finds himself drawn into an intense confrontation with Pallavi, who demands answers about a tragic incident and the justice she has been denied. As their conversation unfolds, an unexpected phone call and a series of unsettling events blur the boundaries between reality and illusion. Haunted by guilt and helplessness, the writer faces a heartbreaking truth that reveals the devastating consequences of delayed justice.
Originally published in The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo, Distance is a short-animated film that tells the story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. His years as a painter, his personal story, and the path that led him to help shape one of the most important inventions in modern communication. This project began as one of Ordinary Folk’s earliest passion pieces in 2020. It went through multiple visual explorations and experiments, guided by a long list of talented collaborators. The final film contains more than 900 hand-painted frames moving together to “create illusions of space and distance, to learn how to conjure the ineffable through the mere aggregation of lines and dots and stretch canvas.”
It centers on the children of a traditional family who decide to travel to Tehran to visit their elderly parents after the pandemic ends. Arriving from various locations, they gather just as the family matriarch—affectionately known as "Khanom-Jan"—is preparing her annual *ash-e nazri* (a traditional ceremonial soup), leading to a series of bittersweet events.
A bridge divided a state. The Ngarrindjeri women at its heart reclaim their story.
Multidisciplinary artist David Hartt (Canadian, born 1967) transforms John Vanderlyn's immersive historical painting, Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (1818–19), into a dynamic contemporary installation, offering viewers the opportunity to explore questions of place and perspective.
As boundaries and relationships continue to shift subtly, young people drift on the cusps of "outsider" and "insider", wandering between the foreign and the familiar.
Decades after a shocking serial murder case involving the swapping of spouses, a stage production based on the real-life crimes is being prepared. Inexperienced actor Tada is cast in the lead role, but as he becomes increasingly consumed by the character and begins to blur the line between fiction and reality, his obsession draws the play's cast and crew into his increasingly disturbing delusions. As opening night approaches, the boundary between truth and fiction collapses, leaving everyone to question what is real and what is imagined.
A child actor wandering between reality and fiction, a prisoner using his furlough, and a woman trapped at her son’s christening. A day in the life of each of the three members of a family over whom the same question hangs: Who am I, and who do I want to be? Three stories about identity, separated by time, but united by blood ties and a decision that will mark the lives of all three.
Mayookha, a young professional living alone in a urban city. When a string of brutal murders rocks the city, targeting single women . She starts noticing strange occurrences around her apartment. She's convinced she's the next target.
An ordinary mother–daughter quarrel takes an unexpected turn after a visit to a mountaintop temple.What starts as a familiar clash of wills quietly slips into something uncanny, where destiny seems to intervene at the most unpredictable moment.
