In 2005, two 7th grade high school students discover an urban legend called the “Duval Dare” that has been passed down to many year groups of students who attended Pitchford High. Thinking it's a refreshing way to spend their school break, the boys accept the dare, but they begin to receive cryptic text messages from a mysterious person named, Ben Duval.
Les enfants de la lanterne magique
Un écran de fumée
Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in the midst of his suffering and conflict ---- a shogi world where he fights quietly and passionately in his sharpened senses. Even though he gives up and tries to escape from the light, his passion for shogi continues to guide him thereafter. Eventually, he would learn the true meaning of life.
A quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where truth and identity blur. As he fights to assert his innocence, he confronts a chilling system that seems more interested in control than justice.
Siblings Mitja and Katja take a trip in a mobile home with their mother to get away from a tragic event that has affected the whole family. Their journey takes them to a run-down campsite by the sea. It soon becomes clear that nothing here is as it seems and that there is a big secret behind the beach and its inhabitants.
Loosely based on Aleksandr Kuprin's short story "The White Poodle".
An absurdist film in which two lost souls find each other underneath a durian tree. Both fed up with life, and in search of some kind of salvation. Eventually, it arrives, but in a different form than expected. A short and vibrant work which captures the transience of life on sultry Super 8.
Kiki, a 9-year-old boy who loves Ultraman and watches it every day as a way to escape his less harmonious family life. He has a deep-seated trauma caused by his parents' constant arguments, which leads him to visualize their fights as epic battles between Ultraman and the monster, reflecting his inner turmoil.
The story unfolds over the course of a day in a surreal East London. Rat King, an eccentric and unusual pest controller, and his trusting and enthusiastic apprentice River drive a van from one place to another in the city, carrying out their daily work.
In 1980s India, Shazia Bano takes her husband to court after he abandons her and their children, sparking a national battle over faith, women’s rights, and justice.
Anna is twenty-five. Her boyfriend, Louis, is a math teacher. Together, they give birth to a child, Leo. A few months later, the discovery of Leo's deafness is an upheaval.
Murder Most Foul is a Hong Kong Thriller directed by and starring Richard Ng.
Tad dreams of becoming an archaeologist traveling the world, uncovering hidden secrets and lost treasure, but his job working construction keeps him daydreaming instead of exploring. The chance of a lifetime comes when he is invited to attend archaeologist Sara Lavrof's presentation of her latest discovery - the papyrus that proves the existence of the Necklace of Midas, the legendary King who turned everything he touched into solid gold.
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. Adaption of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel