Hendrik Waringa, singer and founder of the country band Early Bird, is followed together with his musical grandson Maurits van Nijen in the run-up to the reunion concert to be performed in celebration of the band's 60th anniversary.
In this nostalgic and heartfelt comedy, an exasperated older brother celebrates his birthday with the person he loves the most—his whiny, obnoxious little sister.
“Umtsha Wendoda” is a story that follows the journey of two young boys to a waterfall they would visit when they were younger. However, on this journey, the past times of bubbling youth are replaced with the crushing weight of growing up, accepting your fate and finding your flow.
Lina and Katha are on their way to Sweden in a camper van—they are looking for the Northern Lights and a break from home. What begins as an escape turns into a journey of self-discovery—because Lina not only encounters nature in all its beauty, but also a painful loss that changes everything.
A cardboard house is built as refuge for the remains of a family's home video archives. Memories of maternal guidance, tenderness, and reunion are brought to life by following a child's early years.
The Haunting Within begins with a woman (Shannon Sullivan) waking in her pajamas on an empty street—no memory, no direction, just the creeping sense that something is wrong.
Adi, 14, was born into a gay co-parenting family. As he grows up, the tense balance at his father’s home begins to crack. When their relationship is put to the test, Adi faces his world, and his home, upended.
A Muslim girl living in central China begins to question the religious and familial restrictions that shape her life. In an attempt to challenge the taboo of altering the body, she decides to get a tattoo — but her rebellion against the idea of “sin” unexpectedly gives rise to another kind of “sin” that visits her in return.
From 1947 to 1969, the U.S. Air Force carried out a systematic study of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, codenamed “Project Blue Book.” Thousands of reports from American and European citizens were recorded during those years; more than 700 cases remained “unidentified.” The film reuses original documents from the now-declassified project, superimposing them over family footage from the same period. In the encounter between the domestic and the scientific, the familiar and the alien, a hidden portrait emerges of a nation haunted by its own astronomical obsessions.
In Eliana Niño’s poignant and charming feature debut, Shaira, a girl from the eastern plains of Colombia, dreams of participating in a coleo festival (an event similar to a rodeo). But after a recent drought severely damaged the crops, Shaira’s grandfather sells her horse without telling her. One day, he tells Shaira that the reason why some clouds take the shape of animals is that the sky traps them and won’t return them until it rains again. Shaira embarks on a journey to go in search of a special seed that will make the heavens rain again to bring her horse back.
Portraits:Taken from Our Days is a personal and family-centered film, built from fragments of daily life and letter exchanges with my father. Through these intimate recordings, I explore shifting family relationships, unstable living environments, and my own psychological states. By revisiting family archives, I attempt to reconstruct an image of “home” from scattered memories.
Amid the ruins of northern Gaza, Ibrahim clings to the only companion he has left: Farfour, a stray cat he adopted during the war. Farfour has become more than just a pet for Ibrahim. He has turned into his shadow, his confidant, his last connection to humanity. Together, Ibrahim and Farfour navigate a collapsing world, enduring a relentless siege while living in an unsafe building, with no water and electricity. As the war tightens its grip, Ibrahim must flee.
The animated documentary follows a girl confronting objectification. Collages from magazines, diary sketches, and imprints on the skin reveal how societal pressure takes hold early. Where does innocence end, and where do remarks begin that can lead to sexual violence? How does this shape her self-perception?