Play of the Week: Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…

Perception explores the breach of experience that divides us all by glancing into the lives of three individuals: Clarissa, a young idealistic photographer who chooses to live as a homeless person on the streets of New York, supporting herself meal by meal by selling her photography from a blanket in Central Park; Ralph, a successful real estate salesman who struggles for balance against the cut-throat nature of his business; and Tobias, a perpetual student who gets fired a lot. Perception journeys through the same season of time from each character's point of view, detailing how presumption and mistaken intention leads to great misunderstanding. A moment, revisited from another point of view, takes new dimension--and the line between protagonist and antagonist blurs.

Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees, straining his eyes in the process. To Mrs. Hui’s horror, Ian’s artwork gets progressively blurrier. In turn, his online fame skyrockets, as art critics on social media praise his unique style as an abstract artist. They ascribe deep, profound (pretentious) intentions and meanings to his stylistic choices, when all he's actually doing is drawing exactly what he sees.

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he can get out.

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are muddled, and faces are broken. How is memory created? How are they separated from one another?

After a man receives the heart of a former gangster in a transplant operation, he finds himself drawn to a life of crime.

An underprivileged villager and a victim of caste-driven politics in his village, forced to run away with his daughter Saraswati, but returns after undergoing a spiritual reincarnation, which in turn changes how the village receives him.

Two carefree dogs in Hungary come to the attention of an old fisherman. Later they free a hawk from a cage, and he joins them. They have adventures with a flood, a wild boar, and a cheetah.

Depicts the animal life, including ospreys, otters, beavers, and others, in a small area near the Grand Teton Mountains. Based on the book by Sally Carrighar.

The story tells of a young boy who finds an orphaned baby otter and decides to adopt him into the family, but as the otter grows it wreaks all kinds of havoc, including raiding the neighbor's chicken coop.

Yin Yang Mansion

The story is about a painter named Kang-joon who suffers from facial blindness and a singer-songwriter named Ji-eun who is unable to write lyrics. They both have feelings for each other, so Ji-eun invites Kang-joon to her concert, but Kang-joon unable to recognize her due to his illness. Feeling guilty, Kang-joon cuts off contact with Ji-eun.

Living in a van on the outskirts of Barcelona, Bear (Pol López) does everything he can to give his six-year-old daughter a life filled with joy, even when there's little to hold onto. Between unsteady routines and fragile hopes, their bond becomes a quiet act of resistance. A heartfelt story about love, dignity, and the small miracles that can bloom in the hardest places.

A housewife in her mid-thirties caught in a chaotic daily routine faces an emotional turmoil while providing unwavering care to a terminally ill family member. In a small apartment, amidst the chaos of caring for a loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s, Varsha’s routine is disrupted by the discovery of her missed period, unravelling a profound paradox entwined with her lingering childhood memories.