Beneath a dying tree, a man digs a grave, awaiting another arrival. When a silent figure appears, he assumes they've come to bury someone else. But as the truth unfolds, he realises the grave is his own. What follows is not a fight for survival, but a quiet confrontation between fate and free will, between beings that exist beyond human understanding. What begins as a simple encounter unfolds into something far more metaphysical: a conversation between two beings that exist beyond the realm of men. One bound by duty, the other corrupted by desire, both caught in a moment between life and eternity. Set in a desaturated rural landscape, Sakarat: Pohon Yang Sunyi reimagines the moment before death where silence, duty, and rebellion intertwine, blurring the boundaries between the mortal and the divine.
Siew Bong is, with respect, quite an average person. He’s unexceptional in anything and has not achieved much, which typically isn’t a problem until he has to meet his girlfriend’s ultra-rich, ultra-high-achieving family that believes in flawlessness as the highest form of human value, a value especially upheld and enforced by the tyrannical matriarch of the family, Antoinette. Things turn south over a family dinner when Siew Bong’s beliefs on a person’s value grinds against the family’s facade of perfectionism.
A young Malay boy returns home after growing up overseas for 5 years. Through a slice-of-life series of comedic situations that take place upon his return, he slowly makes friends with the locals and even grows to become fond of the kampung.
A game as old as time faded into the ashes of youth. Travel through this three-part memory as a young boy discovers the decay of his grandfather as they take part in an old game of Chinese chess. With every move he makes, he takes a step closer towards realising the extent of time. This film will explore themes of love, loss and what it really means to grow old in an optimistic way
As Agnes opens up in a documentary about creating her latest EP, she unpacks the emotions she’s long buried, especially about her ex-boyfriend and former drummer, who’s about to get married. In making music alone, she finally learns how to move on by herself.
In a mist-shrouded swamp, Raaja, a quiet, introspective boy, captures a red Siamese fighting fish with his friend Gila, a curious chatterbox. What begins as a simple act of fascination turns into a haunting meditation on life and the bonds between living beings. Raaja learns from an old bird keeper, Pak Tok, that every living thing we hold becomes our responsibility, its life, its fate, its death. When Raaja’s care turns to obsession and the fish dies, he confronts the painful truth about love, loss, and letting go. Set against a haunting natural landscape, Sayap is a poetic tale of innocence, mortality, and the delicate balance between human hands and the wild soul of nature.
There's a boy, having a silent conversation with the gods above, to make a decision.
Although Raimond deMornay is in love with his cousin, Claire, his younger brother Louis wins her. Because of the intense jealousy he harbors towards Louis, Raimond goes to Vienna, and then to India. He returns home at the request of his nephew Paul -- Louis and Claire's son. But Raimond's jealousy is still overpowering, and with the aid of a box containing cobra poison, he murders his brother and hides his body in a casket.
When a young social recluse stumbles onto a series of unsolved cold cases he finds himself pulled deeper into society's dark underside and must face his own demons to learn the truth.
A first-timer's break and entry attempt doesn't go quite as planned, and now he finds himself in the victim position.
Drawn during the spring of 2020, this is the last of 4 yet to be published densely illustrated versions of prose poems of H.P. Lovecraft. With 48 illustrations made directly with ink to Costin's music, the story of one of Lovecraft's vivid nightmare is brought to life.
Sara is unhappy in her job, her relationships, and just about everything else she has going on in her life. One Friday night, a night she thinks her longtime boyfriend is going to propose, Sara is surprised when things don't go as planned. Soon things turn violent and Sara has to cover her tracks. This all coincides with a visit from a know-it-all plumber, a nosey neighbor, and phone calls from a friend who talks incessantly. Tired of being MANSPLAINED by the world, Sara enacts the best kind of Polanski-esque revenge on her would be mansplainers.
The crook couple Peter and Gwen have run away from Germany and are dreaming of a sweet life on Mallorca. During a break-in at the villa of multimillionaire Walter Ekland, Peter discovers by chance that the old man is using a detective agency to find his son, who was given up for adoption years ago. Ekland has never seen his supposed last family member and heir and therefore does not know that he has long since died. Peter sees the great opportunity of a lifetime. He assumes the identity of the lost son in order to get his hands on the big money. But the unscrupulous Decker, a private detective who was tasked with finding Ekland's real son, discovers the fraud and blackmails Gwen and Peter...
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.