NUISANCE BEAR
What happens when an ancient migration path intersects with a booming tourist town? In Nuisance Bear, Canadian filmmakers Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman turn the traditional nature documentary inside out.Set across Churchill, Manitoba, and the Inuit community of Arviat, Nunavut, this feature-length documentary follows a polar bear whose seasonal migration path intersects with modern […]
WHISPERS IN MAY
Qihuo has a secret: she’s just had her first menstruation. This marks the arrival of the ‘Changing Skirt’ ceremony, a traditional coming-of-age ritual, which signifies she is no longer a child, but a woman bound to the communal demands of marriage and labor.With her parents away as migrant labourers and grandfather recently passed, Qihuo and […]
DREAM OF ANOTHER SUMMER
A powerful sense of precarity hangs over Beirut. Following the catastrophic port explosion on August 4, 2020, filmmaker Irene Bartolomé chose not to immediately capture the physical debris. Instead, having made the city her home for six years, she took the necessary time to explore a deeper, more intimate question: how do we heal alongside […]
REHMAT
Rehmat adapts four stories by Ajeet Cour to map the unresolved historical traumas of Partition and the 1980s insurgency in Punjab. This measured, observant work weaves three intertwined lives: a grieving Hindu woman sheltering a fugitive Sikh militant, anxious parents awaiting their underground son, and an elderly Muslim migrant returning from exile. Through real-life casting […]
PIPES
YELLOW LETTERS
Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Ankara, lead a fulfilling life with their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi – until an incident at the premiere of their new play changes everything. Overnight, they find themselves targeted by the state and lose their jobs and their home. They move to Istanbul to temporarily stay with Aziz’s […]
HALIMA
At 86, Halima lives by the Moroccan coast, gathering mussels and selling what she can. A phone call disturbs the quiet of her days and draws her back to a life in the Rif mountains. Years earlier, widowed and determined to remain in the house her husband left her, she resisted a project that threatened […]
FLIES
Fernando Eimbcke returns to his cinematic roots with a black-and-white masterpiece that finds profound beauty in the most ordinary moments of daily life. Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old […]
THE CALF DOLL
Ankur Hooda’s The Calf Doll is a poetic, meditative work that offers a haunting portrait of India’s changing rural landscape. The story follows an elderly retired professor in a fog-shrouded Haryanvi village who faces profound despair after his cow delivers a stillborn calf. To ease the mother’s grief and allow her to be milked, he […]
QUEEN AT SEA
What happens to romance, dignity, and choice when the mind begins to fade? Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea is a brave, deeply human film that steps into a moral gray area most of us are afraid to talk about: the sexual agency of people living with advanced dementia. The story begins with a shock. Amanda […]