Dok Leipzig 2018 – Next Masters Competition

Cinema Morocco, located in São Paulo, Brazil was once the location of lavish red carpet film premieres and the most luxurious theatre in South America in the 50's. It was the host to Hollywood stars and South American premieres of classic films like Su...

Berlin International Film Festival
ACID program, Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Argentinian director Santiago Loza's highly imaginative, and consistently surprising, Brief Story From The Green Planet premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, going on to win th...

Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc

A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...

"Second Star on the Right winningly captures our varying levels of maturation and individualism, with beauty and style." Film Inquiry

Palm Springs International Film Festival
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival

Emilia is a 30-something bisexual woman who teaches acting classes to children, but is tr...

CPH:DOX
IDFA

A huge, over-towering hangar is opened. The static camera is positioned at a distance, so that the full grandeur of the hangar and simultaneously that of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is shown. Danish director Sebastian Cordes’s A Place Called Lloyd is a record of loyal...

Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film Festival

One defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...

Martin is burdened with the relentless, wily personification of his anxiety and depression: a character named Hagge. After a freewheeling colleague encroaches on Martin's workspace, he comes to discover that his apathy is a choice. Serious subject matter is explored with humour and whimsy in this...

Margaret enters her final job interview with a prestigious, security-conscious corporation as a sure thing but finds herself at odds with their methods when she realizes she's not the only one being considered. Waiting turns into brawling once Margaret finds her mojo.

Canada - 2014
Directed by:...

Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film Festival

First, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...

Cinéma du Réel
CPX:DOX

Returning home, experiencing time, exploring traces from the past. Miguel Hilari, from Bolivia, uses his camera to look into the past, and created with El corral y el viento a film that seems like a portrait of another time. Hilari returned to the Aymara village of his fat...

Cannes Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Moscow Film Festival

Dark clouds hang over the island of Fogo. An evacuation order has been issued as a result of an increasing decay of the local community. People leave, often reluctantly, but they submit to their fate. And so do tw...

An eccentric one-line actor, keen to save his characters from extinction, uses costumes from past roles to tell their stories and inadvertently wins over a world weary wardrobe mistress into his theatrical imagination. This deeply affecting short film is anchored by the exquisite performances of ...

Hong Kong International Film Festival
Nara International Film Festival

Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh directs this Japanese drama focussing on Tatsuya Nikaido, a middle-aged divorcee who runs an agricultural company and lives in a suburb with his daughter and mother. After his only son's death...

"...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Camerimage

Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...

" ...an inspiring tale about one particular farmer who is struggling to overcome a traumatic event." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
Indie Lisboa International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival

Helvécio Marins Jr.'s film centres on Marcelo (Marcelo di Souza), an easygoing cowboy a...

"... among the strongest of recent films to bluntly speak about class difference." Slant Magazine

Slamdance Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival

Set in rural Japan, this is a remarkable coming-of-age drama features a stunning performance by Aya Kitai as the tenacious titular character. She pla...

"Juno Rinaldi’s Such A Small Thing addresses the cultural inertia around intimate partner violence" - The Globe and Mail

Hamilton Film Festival
Toronto Shorts International Film Festival

A woman in her 40s returns to her small hometown to confront her ex-boyfriend about an assault that happene...

"A poised yet internally turbulent film of almost religious purity and compassion..." The Hollywood Reporter

Berlin International Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival

Masahide Ichii’s expertly crafted, spare and compassionate drama explores the life of Kinoshita (Ayako Moriya), a wom...

"Writer-director Kevin Noland effectively utilizes his fine young cast and the natural beauty and rich culture of northern Spain in amiably posing a timeless question of youth." - The Los Angeles Times

Palm Springs International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival

Chris McKinley, ...

SXSW Film Festival
Fantasia Film Festival

A man, who is having an affair with a young woman, gets home late as usual. But that night, he finds something wrong with his wife Satomi. Since then, he gets strayed into her dark side, the "labyrinth".

Japan - 2018 - 14m
Directed By: Reiki Tsuno
Writt...

"...slick and fast paced, contrasting modern, stylised split-screen editing with a grim backdrop of misspent adolescence." Time Out

Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival

17-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his fami...

"This film functions as both cinema and journalism, the camera pushing us into a world we might not otherwise see and illuminating that world on a human scale." NOW Magazine

Toronto International Film Festival

Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community...