A restless spirit in an abandoned building is disturbed.

Minjun is a severely timid office worker, finds an unidentified object heading to Earth, but he can't even tell his wife, Jieun. A week later, on the day the object falls to earth, the couple's secrets are revealed with an emergency alert.

A documentary that explores the role of faith within the LGBTQ+ community, delving into how belief, spirituality, and identity intersect in deeply personal and often complicated ways. For centuries, mainstream religious institutions have positioned themselves in opposition to LGBTQ+ lives, shaping a narrative of exclusion, judgment, and silence. To say that the treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals by many orthodox traditions has been “unkind” is to understate the pain, rejection, and loss countless people have endured in the name of faith.

The demand for gender equality, the abolition of the compulsory hijab and fundamental human rights did not begin with Mahsa Amini’s death; Iran’s feminist movement has a long and deep-rooted history.

The imminent closure of a historic 800-year-old paper mill in Italy signals the irretrievable loss of a centuries-old craft and decades of history erased.

In a Marrakech call centre, sales calls to France become a profound meditation on voice, distance, and who gets to be heard.

Filmmaker Oliver Laxe leads his crew and a group of ravers deep into the desert to shoot his feature, Sirāt. Within the confines of his hotel room in Morocco, something unspoken lingers in his chest as Laxe opens up for a recorded conversation. As filming intensifies in the barren landscape, the film begins to inhabit those who take part.

Mai Gang, the father of the filmmaker, starts making a map, which over the weeks invades the floor of the family living room. The itinerary of his clandestine escape from Communist China to Hong Kong in the seventies resurfaces. From the making of a homemade buoy to sea swimming techniques, this film offers a unique survival guide.

Through thoughtful letters from prison, an anarchist incarcerated since 1980 reflects on his radical past.

Santiago was born prematurely, with little hope of survival and the risk of being forgotten by both his biological parents and a system that rarely guarantees a stable home. The documentary follows Víctor and Fernando, the first gay couple to marry in Baja California, as they face years of discrimination and bureaucracy in their fight to adopt. Their struggle sheds light on thousands of children left in institutions and affirms a simple truth: every child deserves to grow up in a loving home. Santiago’s arrival, "love at first sight", transforms a legal battle into an act of justice and tenderness.

Gi-hyuk and Taein drift through the day in a grocery delivery truck, repeating orders, reports, and instructions. Overhearing investors and stock manipulators, they glimpse the hidden workings of power yet change nothing. At the final destination, by the sea, Gi-hyuk walks on, silent and steady, like an ox.

As Haku and Kaho prepare for their wedding, Kaho finds a picture book titled "The Little Bird," written by Haku's ex-lover, So. After reading it aloud, Haku recalls that his diploma is still at So's place. And Haku and Kaho head to there together.

Movement is not what is seen, but what is perceived.

After a huge fire has raged, the scorched stone left there is suddenly bewildered by the unfamiliar landscape of the village, and the scorched stone that has been wandering around begins to look around the village.

A ghost walks the land of the living in search of those they've lost.

Négy évszak

OKTAGON 87: Szabová vs. Fernandes

Forms of the universe, rocky landscapes, and a green and lush human-made city. It originates from a dream I had; it is both mine and from a traveler aboard a spaceship. The dream and traveler belong within the universe of my film Fractais Tropicais. Here, the hopeful and utopian human-centric imaginary of space travel and the future, filled with surveillance, control, and illusions, all fleeting like the images a dream can contain.