While cooking Dinuguan (a Filipino dish), a memory flashes for a young woman of when she was being taught how to cook it, none other than her mother who had a thirst for blood.
When a rural village in the Philippines starts to vanish, leaving only carabaos as witnesses, a child plans out a journey to locate his lost father, revealing a secret that defies belief.
A portrait of a woman surfer
A young retreat director residing in a remote retreat house forms a bond with a student with their shared trauma. But with her insatiable hunger, a chilling night begins.
Four young filmmakers struggle to finish shooting a short film before the end of summer. Many challenges plague the production, the most sinister being a conspiracy of an otherworldly nature.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
The ritual-tripod ceremony, which takes place once in twelve years and affects national fortune, is imminent, but the tripod-forging masters die mysteriously one after another. A genius detective who suffers from a blood phobia and has an unconventional mode of operation teams up with a simple-minded female assistant who is highly skilled in martial arts to explore a long-standing case of the oppression of feudal women. Beauty is not a sin—Will women who are oppressed and objectified have no choice but to bow down to their fate?
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
On the cusp of his 50th birthday, Nacer Belkacem dreams of a better life. Yet, over the years, he has built himself an enviable position in the eyes of all: a loving family man, a happy husband, a model employee, and a respected citizen in his community. But the veneer is cracking. Beneath a seemingly perfect surface, Nacer has racked up expenses, made questionable investments, and is up to his neck in debt. On the brink of ruin, he devises a desperate plan to try to pull himself out of the water. You only have one life to earn your way to heaven...
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A found footage style documentary about the Middlesbrough machine
A near-dead town, an encroaching overgrowth, a mysterious tower, a camera, a voice. Across 299 photographs a man who may be the filmmaker, and yet might not be real, relays a story that may not have happened, about a place that almost definitely exists.
All Eyes On You
After finding a mysterious brain in the street, a reclusive artist plunges into a frenetic cycle of creation and destruction, trying to unravel the connection between his disturbing art and the object's terrifying influence, while confronting a guilt that threatens to consume his sanity.
When Samira goes to the beach at night alone to meditate in search of inspiration for her screenplays, she experiences something otherworldly.
A young woman bound in the front seat of a parked car watches helpless as her captor methodically digs a grave in the desert ground. The bloody lifeless body of her boyfriend lies framed in the rear-view mirror, a fate she will fight at all costs to avoid for herself. But this is only the beginning of a brutal struggle where survival could be worse than death.
Two beautiful women who live in the same apartment building each have a shocking story to tell. On the first floor lives Silvia Resino (Alexandra Paulhiac), who has three psychotic admirers while on the second floor, RoseMarie Curtis (Sasha Graham) is descending into madness after joining an insane acting school.
In between performance, dance and cerémonies, "The Ferryman” is a choreographic exploration of rituals and animistic roots, a luxurious visualisation of a bewitchment and an exorcism of a man-deer in the borders of the world.
Elaisa is a middle-aged Filipino widow who lives in Nuuk with her rebellious adult son Karl. She meets Mark Alvarez, a visiting Filipino seaman. He is friendly and caring. But a blizzard is threatening to cause more havoc in her life.