In an atmosphere grown suddenly impossible to breathe, a diver and a woman appear to be the only survivors. As their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?
A behind-the-scenes look at Astrid von Star's unfinished, untitled, avant-garde masterpiece which reveals her many kept secrets of love and loss. Once a top Hollywood film critic, Astrid (Rena Riffel) rebels to create a self-portrait on digital media with the help of her only surviving ex-husband (Greg Heath). She expresses her bohemian spirit while her psyche unravels in front of the camera.
A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations ...
A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.
The behavior of a casting agent during the audition of a 17-year-old girl causes the boundary between reality and fiction, between the acceptable and the unacceptable to blur. How far does the girl want to go to get the part? Does she accept his behavior during the audition?
Amor shows, in a number of fragmentary scenes, painful but recognizable moments in an arbitrary day in the lives of a group of vulnerable teenage girls in the outskirts of a big city in the Netherlands.
In a desolate landscape a disillusioned artist meets a sober geologist, and quickly they form a strong connection. Their lives seem temporarily idyllic until the real world sticks its head up again.
Summer, 1989. City girls, Paula and Laura, spend their summer holidays in a small town with their cousins, Maija and Linda. Four girls, left unattended, enjoy freedom, imitate the life of adults, plunge into reckless adventures and get into trouble. Based on true events, nine-year-old Paula’s story of growing up is set against the background of time when Latvia made her first steps towards independence.
Jess is super excited to attend her step-sister’s wedding and truly become part of the family, but after only recently finding out about her existence, her step-family are less than delighted about her presence on the big day.
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
Under the influence of a hallucinogenic cactus, a couple of French comes to introduce, like a virus, into a Mexican landscape whose practices, codes and uses they do not know.
An intimate portrayal of what could be a family's last day together, set against the urban backdrop of North London.
Burn survivors Kristen and Jack reunite after a year of healing for a date and are faced with the horrible reality that in a public place all people are not so kind with people who are different.
Ava is on the way to the beach with her mum Kelly and her little brother Wally, but before they go she needs to find a new swimsuit. At the age of 13, this task is nowhere near as simple as it sounds.
A teenage girl discovers her male friends’ secret group chat, forcing her to question her friendship with them.
Helga would give anything to meet Stanton Gareth, the star of '80s Sci-Fi show Time Fighter. Simeon would give anything to get out of his costume.
A Surinamese female referee is fighting for her place in the world of men's football.
Three young girls are on the way home from a parent-free party weekend in England when a naive joke in the wrong environment leads to unexpected consequences.
Deep down inside, a fifteen-year-old boy feels different from the other boys around him. When he becomes friends with an enchanting girl, he gets more and more tangled up in his confusion.
A woman tormented by her past meets an old man with whom she immediately connects.