The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual scavenging, a practice in which lower-caste men and women manually clear human excrement from gutters, and liberate those forced into this occupation by dint of their birth.
Manual Scavenging is an all India Phenomenon. However, the Government of India is kind enough to enact Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act and implementing many schemes. But none of them failed to work as the caste system is paramount in the so called democratic constitutional India. This film Kakkoos elaborates on the deplorable status.
A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.
Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.
A young man plays the field, dating multiple women at the same time until something tragic happens, and he is charged with a crime he did not commit. Or did he?
A young man (Joe Doornek) wakes up late for his big interview. On the way there, everything that could possibly go wrong, does.
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.
A Mi'kmaq man reflects on witnessing the destruction of his homelands.
A 1950s Southern teen questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism when urged to repent her feelings for her best friend.
Three siblings return home after their mother’s death and face their most daunting task: figuring out how to post about it on social media.
Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about her work and her relationship with Lucas, her husband. Sara, through the force of the sea, wants to achieve spaces of freedom. The encounters with a Caribbean woman, Rosa, and an enigmatic man from the city, Virgilio, will be decisive in resolving her personal dilemmas and better understanding the meaning of justice in a society indifferent to the most marginalized people and with enormous inequality.
A harmless game takes a fatal turn, and the course of three high schoolers' lives change forever. They keep what they did a secret until the following winter break when they meet a girl who helps them uncover what really happened that night.
Quando Eu Crescer
Danny is a young graffiti artist who draws on the walls in Sydney along with his girlfriend, Jenny. He avoids trouble and sleeps in the subway. When the leader of the neighborhood gang disfigures one of his works, as he had done many times before, Danny decides to make his presence felt with the help of his sister.
Despite all their idiosyncrasies, a dysfunctional family's lives all revolve around their blue cattle dog, Bonza. When Bonza's life is threatened all hell breaks lose to save her and it re-unites them around their common love for the dog.
NOTURNO
In this Hitchcockian thriller, Sebastian's life takes a chilling turn when a slip in his hotel bathtub renders him paralyzed at the bottom, and with the water encroaching, he must employ every resource to escape before time runs out.
An ordinary taxi ride becomes a battle-ground when the Taxi Driver refuses to enter a particular lane. The passenger, in turn, decides to not alight the vehicle until he reaches his destination.
Trigger
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.