Fresh arrivals, theater releases, and newly added cinema
Set against Alabama A&M’s Homecoming Week, Searching 4 Saturn follows poet and scholar Joshua Baker as they muse on southern inheritance across time and space. The film asks what it means to be Black and Queer in a state caught between cycles of oppression and resistance.
The children of Moynaq know the sea only from their grandparents' songs. They play among abandoned shipwrecks that have long since become rusting witnesses to a lost world. The Aral Sea has almost completely vanished, but the hope that it will return, as bitter as it is futile, persists.
Haiguang dreams – of his late grandmother, his hometown of Lěng Shuǐ Jiāng, his art and his job at a wholesale warehouse in Leipzig. But Haiguang doesn’t just dream. He also films.
The Murmuring Deep is a sensorial non-fiction film that delves into a fractured view of the world as a play of mirrors, existing only as reflections of and in each other. Through a biological lens, the film seeks to glimpse the ecstatic chaos that underlies all reality.
Twenty-five-year-old influencer Elena wakes up in her room, her world blurred by the side effects of medication and fragmented memories. Confined within this enclosed space, audiences embody Elena, piece together clues step by step, and unearth a heartbreaking, cruel truth. As traumatic memories come rushing back like a tidal wave, Elena must confront her past. This time, the audience will make the choice for her: to succumb to an endless cycle of agony, or to bravely step into an unknown future.
In the landscape of Monte Amiata, organic memory and industrial presence merge. The traces of human activity settle into nature like silent apparitions, blurring the boundaries between the man-made and living matter.
When the elderly father returns home after abandoning his family for many years, the mother is forced to resume her role as his “wife,” caring for the very man who once walked out on her.
A portrait of Jesse “Shortbread” Mooney and his life in New York City’s medieval combat community.
Consumed by everyday routine, the main character gradually stops noticing the beauty of everyday moments. But her son sees the world differently. His ability to imagine and dream, along with memories of her own childhood, help the woman rediscover joy in life and the beauty of the surrounding world.
Following five teams of designers investigating the future of water, energy, housing, mobility, agriculture, and care, the film explores how design research can help imagine and debate the future of the Netherlands.
An intrepid journalist investigates a recent string of murders.
A 17 year-old girl is going through a box of her late dad’s belongings with her best friend. Meanwhile, her mum struggles even to get out of bed. As Mia tries to distract herself from her grief, she becomes obsessive about going through the belongings.
"It was kind of a surprising, surprising event…”
A study session is interrupted by an irritating racket.
Two centuries after the historic crossing of the Andes that led to South America’s liberation from Spanish colonization, a group of engineers and Andean muleteers embark on an expedition across the mountains to liberate a robot.
Seven-year-old Abril is taken from his mother and placed in foster care in the hope of giving them both a better chance. There, he finds an unexpected companion in Luna, who helps him navigate the loneliness and heartache of their separation. But when he is finally reunited with his mother, happiness proves fleeting, and another loss awaits. Forced to confront separation once more, Abril embarks on a tender, heartbreaking journey that will shape his understanding of love, longing, and the things we carry long after someone is gone.
