Not all who are greedy end up prosperous, and not all who are honest end up broken. Sometimes, the soil fed with blood grows fertile for a moment.only to lose its soul forever.
Recordings of stories told by a bold and headstrong grandmother, who recounts episodes from her youth without sentimentality, form the basis for handmade and animated collages of home movies, in which grainy outlines transform into faces and situations. The cyclical rhythm of images and voice opens up space for reflection on heritage, memory, and the feeling of being stuck, which sometimes lasts a lifetime.
Adrián and his lover meet at an old apartment downtown. The date takes a turn when he discovers neither of them scheduled it. A phone call then reveals they've been ambushed.
Seeking to escape the road and her role as a mother, Pilar reunites with her friends for a sweet weekend. Over the course of the night, the reunion turns into a nightmare when they begin to die one by one, savagely murdered with candy. As they fight to survive, they discover that behind the crimes lies an old story of revenge.
Midnight in the War Room There are no rules in a cyber war. There are no borders. The battleground is digital, but the impact is human. This is the untold story of defenders on the front lines.
Queen Elizabeth I commissions a magnificent mechanical organ for Sultan Mehmed III, crafted by the famed Thomas Dallam. The organ, adorned with singing birds and celestial mechanisms, is shipped over six months of treacherous seas. Upon arrival, Dallam assembles it and personally plays the organ as the Sultan eagerly awaits. Yet, despite its grandeur, the organ’s story ends in tragedy. Postbellek's short documentary was produced with the guidance and narration of Emre Aracı, and it leverages artificial intelligence by Atıl Altaş.
‘In thin air’ attempts to touch the invisible plane of pure image wedged between camera and subject, to move the world within the frame rather than turning the frame towards the world. Ruptures within the image allow visible subjects to be woven and sifted through the weave of the edit like strands of hair through fingers.
A stop-motion animation showing two dancing figures that manifest within a man, each representing his emotions and functions. They linger in a divided space, isolated from the outside world. Suddenly, something rushes in and grabs their attention.
Off the coast of Manquemapu, Chile, buried beneath the indifferent waves, lies the wreck of the Janequeo. The ship capsized in 1965, and 51 people lost their lives. While the sea has swallowed the wreck, on land the memory of this disaster lives on—in the people and in the landscape.
In a world ravaged by violence and poverty, Rat, a teenage runaway, survives by stealing alongside his friends. On the eve of a typhoon, a betrayal comes to light. Fueled by rage, the boys turn on each other until the storm forces them to confront the fragility of their home and themselves.
Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.