The Ploy

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.

Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.

A documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini and his film 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Behind the scenes footage of Pasolini and crew filming 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

A singer with a once bright future falls victim to the music business at a young age. A decade later, despite an addiction and depression she rises up one more time with the help of a special friend and her God given gift of voice.

A sex assault survivor who cannot heal from the trauma joins group therapy as a last resort, only to realize that there may be in fact one more thing that can help, with far more reaching consequences, dragging along other group members in the process.

A woman who entered the island to collect doctoral degree information meets a shaman who received the gods, a hereditary shaman, a shaman who has learned God, and a musician to hear various stories about Jindo shamanism. While having nightmares about an unfamiliar young shaman's suggestion and going through troubles such as seeing ghosts, she finds that there is a shaman in her family. The main character thought the bad relationship between her maternal grandmother and the shaman's maternal grandmother was problematic. However, there is a hidden twist...

A young girl tracks down a clown.

الإنفجار الجميل

A teenager with a "non-normative" body questions how to fit into a misogynistic society, seeking male validation even through derogatory comments from men.

A rising J-Pop idol named Mai finds her career in jeopardy when she falls in love, violating the "no dating" clause in her contract.

الولد الغبي

Shinya lost his mother at a young age, and Shinya's classmate, Yuka, feels out of place in her own home. Perhaps grappling with their loneliness, the two form a close bond as they work on the school newspaper. But an unexpected incident leads to Yuka's sudden disappearance. Shinya, feeling lost and clinging to a promise, waits for Yuka's return. Thirty years later, the truth about Yuka's past finally comes to light.