Kick It!

A short film by Farhia Omer and Nadiifo Omer.

Léo, a young Drag artist from Pau, founded the Mean House in tribute to his late Drag mother, Nikita. Every Tuesday, he lights up the stage at Aquiu with his collective. As his next show approaches, Léo is preparing his performance.

El Camp Nou: bienvenidos al estadio

Thousands of Russian citizens moved to Buenos Aires in 2023 as a result of the war in Ukraine. Among them are pregnant women seeking to give birth and secure Argentine citizenship, men avoiding conscription, LGBT people seeking the freedom to live openly, and a professional choir building a life far from home. As they settle into exile, they embrace Argentina’s tolerance, human rights, and free healthcare and education. But Javier Milei’s election casts uncertainty over their future and that of the country.

A Tenderness

The color of the sky

When you’re the person everyone relies on, you can’t not show up. While studying in Manila to become a heart surgeon, an aspiring medical student returns home to Tuguegarao to seek closure with his distant childhood love—unaware that her cold goodbyes were a quiet sacrifice made to keep his dreams going.

A woman struggling with the absence of her fiance looks for a way to bring him back. Luckily, something hidden deep in her basement offers a solution.

Binge is a representation of a forgotten time in life.

In July 2023, the filmmaker happens upon the Alista Hotel in Dadap Village, Jakarta. Unable to find a taxi during the evening high tide, they stay briefly, yet the image of the place lingers and draws them back in 2025. They meet "Boy," who manages and guards the fading hotel. Tracing the bond between place and person, and memories each holds, the film attends to the singular time and vitality of a site nearing disappearance.

From inside the funicular heading to Harder Kulm, the landscapes in the foreground and background appear to shift at different speeds with the train’s motion. These vistas gradually accumulate, yielding various impressions.

Estrangeiro Brasileiro

When a musician buys a new drum kit, strange events take over his studio.

A visual film essay explores the world of centuries-old oak trees, linking them to the human life cycle.

A man goes into an audition.

After a life of wandering, Alune has settled down in the heart of the Paris suburbs. There, amid the remnants of old gardens and the construction sites of the Grand Paris project, he is building his own world: a forest, a cabin, an Ark for himself and his animals.

The characters from Agnia Barto's poems, gathered for tea, tell her funny stories.