In 2014, in Kurdistan, thousands of Yazidi women are kidnapped by ISIS and reduced to sexual slavery. Most of them become pregnant. Once freed, the surviving mothers are forced by their own community to abandon their children.
To a world of ashes and ruins comes a space traveler on a mission to restore the planet to its former glory. However, the price of creating something in this place turns out to be high…
A reflection on different relations between what’s specifically human and the natural world, by critically discussing the socially-constructed dualistic opposition between nature and culture that is one of the cornerstones of Western rationalism.
Angela and Jay survive by fishing for food on the wave-beaten volcanic coast. Their life as a couple is under stress and their existence is precarious. In their fishing village, which is turning into a touristic spot, they rub shoulders with Big Game Fishing enthusiasts who pay fortunes to enjoy themselves and prepare for the Blue Marlin World Cup by hunting the “cheetah of the seas”.
In the countryside, a teenage girl lives completely alone, surrounded by elements of her past. The memories and longing for all the places she once called home are stuck with her, yet also make her feel like she truly belongs to none of them. Her memories lead her back to her old house, now abandoned, where time seems to have stopped. Among the shadows of her childhood, she remembers something that changes the way she sees the places she once belonged to.
JUST ONE. MORE. SWIPE. As a group of friends play cards, one indivudal can't manage to quit scrolling on his phone. Little does he know, terrible things happen to those addicted to their screens.
Katrien, an employee at Innotector, fears she is about to get fired by crisis manager Ronald. Their meeting takes an unexpected turn... Will Ronald fire her or not? Secretary Minoes, along with a ticking clock, witnesses the verdict.
Acil (25), an artifact student and campus donor who has not passed for 12 semesters, is again facing the Calculus III exam, which he has retaken seven times. Pressured by the threat of dropping out, he desperately prepares a cheating plan: swapping his exam sheets.
In a quiet room where days blur together, Karthik drifts between pills, memories, and the ghost of a girl he couldn’t save. What begins as a routine step toward healing slowly bends into something stranger, sessions that feel too vivid, a doctor who seems to know too much, and a mind slipping through the cracks of its own creation. Echoes of Silence pulls the viewer into a soft, dreamlike spiral where reality fades at the edges, and every whisper asks the same haunting question: what do you run from when the thing chasing you is yourself?