Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, stands as NYC's most far-left mayoral candidate, aiming to lead the world's financial capital. His ambitions may extend beyond the Big Apple, with the Democratic Socialists of America backing him. As the organization rapidly expands, it seeks to place more candidates and implement socialist policies in cities nationwide, reshaping the political landscape.
A diabetic soldier returns home, only to suffer a sugar and drug overdose after eating a turron with LSD, made by his daughter, and now she must save him.
Sarah and Alex live with their parents in Lebanon and enjoy escaping into their imaginary world. One day, the family receives unexpected news that will change their lives forever.
Three women trapped in apathy find freedom in wild nature, where suppressed instincts awaken. A wedding sparks rebellion against social norms, leading to an ecstatic and terrifying eruption that leaves only the echo of liberation.
Guynel and Diovany are two young queer men with radically different personalities but from the same island, Martinique. After three years away, Guynel returns to his homeland to reconnect with his roots, his loved ones, and to come out to his father. Diovany, meanwhile, is about to finish his studies and is preparing to compete in one of Martinique’s first “Balls.” It marks the beginning of a dream that will likely one day lead him to the Parisian drag scene. Two intertwined destinies that, through their search for identity, tell the story of queer youth in Martinique and their passage into adulthood.
Samuel, desperate to buy his little sister a gift for her birthday, gets pulled into the world of gambling. As he chases quick money, he faces peer pressure and animosity, learning that every win comes with a price and every loss comes with a lesson.
In 2000, Susana de Sousa Dias made Criminal Case 141/53, about the sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima, who resisted a 1950s’ Portuguese law that prohibited nurses from marrying. Supported by a montage of archival material, the film told their story, which was shaped by the dictatorship under Salazar. Now, a quarter of a century later, De Sousa Dias returns with a sequel that questions and reflects on her earlier film. She describes how she first encountered the archive material that led her to the sisters’ story in the early 1990s.
A mother goes through a box of keepsakes, showing photographs and reading love letters out loud in a soft voice. Meanwhile a father leafs through an ethnography book, then fixes his gaze on a single, significant photograph. These are the parents of French-Vietnamese filmmaker Anaël Dang, who, 21 years ago, received an envelope with life-changing contents.
WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journey to combat food insecurity and the industrial farm system by utilizing traditional farming techniques rooted in ancestral history. The small family farm is often perceived to be an occupation of the past that is being overtaken by large-scale industrial farming practices. Big Ag wreaks havoc on our global climate, all the while creating a GMO monoculture that contributes to an enormous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.
A taxi driver who works at night takes us through different stories unfolding simultaneously in the city of Buenos Aires. While she desperately searches for an organizing principle that gives meaning to her life, the other characters are pushed to their own limits.