Jaz is an agency worker given a simple task, to stay overnight at a student housing accommodation. There are just two problems; the weird lighting, and the unexpected coworker.
The documentary portrays Erich Finsches, a true Viennese original and Holocaust survivor. Based on over six years of collected material by director Matthias Jaklitsch, who supported Erich on his travels, the film shows him as a positive, humorous, but also argumentative and unique personality in all his humanity. At 97, Erich continues to tirelessly advocate for remembrance of the past, attending memorial ceremonies and schools to spread his message of "Never Again." Instead of a traditional "eyewitness narrative," the film not only documents Erich's life, his youth during Nazi persecution, and his rebuilding of a new life after the war, but also the relationship between the director and the protagonist.
After a ruthless bandit forces a young cowgirl to kill her own brother, she sets out on a dangerous path of revenge. This remarkable HKU graduation film delivers gritty Western authenticity, raw emotional power, and an utterly relentless pace.
Filmed inside the many worlds of virtual reality, this documentary dives into VR's history, usage, and future. Told through the many users and communities inside this digital space.
After a terrorist church bombing in Tanta, the body of an employee at Al Pasha Women's Beauty Centre, Nadia, is discovered. The center owner, Nour Al Pasha, and female workers are in trouble about the need to cover up the incident, which is mostly a suicide, in order to preserve the center's reputation amidst intense competition. While Al Pasha tries to obtain a burial permit unofficially and illegally, the workers get involved in trying to find a way to wash Nadia for burial secretly. Nevertheless, they face multiple successive difficulties. Hence, each one of them recalls her relationship with Nadia. They confront their realities and actions, as well as what Al Pasha represents in their extremely harsh and unpredictable lives.
A heartbroken artist seeks to end her life with the Administration of Souls in Sorrow (ASS); she dives into her past relationship through nostalgic home videos that spark a new vision of love and loss in this lifetime.
In the early 1990s, a group of friends escape their daily routine and hit the road for a fun weekend getaway. Anthony and his friends arrive at an abandoned housing complex ready to have a blast. However, an unknown entity suddenly fills the sky and influences the friends' behavior, unleashing a night of terror and turning it into an inexplicable and deadly experience.
Three women from Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Benin reunite seventeen years after surviving sex trafficking to dismantle the powerful men behind their pain. From the streets of Lagos to the shadows of Abidjan and Cotonou, they execute a cold, calculated mission — each move sharpened by trauma, sisterhood and strategy. What begins as vengeance becomes a fight for identity, justice and survival in a world that never expected them to rise.
Henrikas, a successful businessman whose past hides a terrible secret, was born when he had to face the cruel realities of life: the death of his wife, his daughter's serious illness, and a dramatic choice - to save one life at the expense of another?
Regarding sound, etymologies, dead images and the Sun. Dark Light: the dim cloud of light that is experienced in complete darkness, owing to the spontaneous activity of neurons in the visual system.
Archival films from 1950s Kenya turn settler home windows into a lens on the Mau Mau uprising, revealing how British and American movies framed anti-colonial resistance as the villains of a Western.
Adela, a woman with an undiagnosed mental illness, seeks relief through folk rituals. Misunderstood by her family and a medical system that offers her only medication, she lives convinced that someone, or something, is watching her. At times, she feels its presence: it touches her, hurts her, and leaves her bedridden for days. Only religion seems to offer her a sympathetic ear, leading her to consult a healer and confess the disturbing origin of her suffering.
a surreal, handcrafted short film inspired by HYLICS. In this world, floating creatures pulse with explosive energy, driven by a unifying harmonic scream. The second entry in ducklorde’s COLOUR SERIES, blends his experimental animation with a dithered surrealist style. It’s accompanied by an original track by Tom Hughes, that emulates Chuck Salamone’s work on HYLICS 2. The result is like watching consciousness dissolve through a microwaved sunbeam.