Ukraine, 2022. Kherson is under Russian occupation. A son involved in the armed underground visits his mother to find out whether she has revealed his location to the Russians. The woman believes the occupation is a form of salvation and that everyone should cooperate. Their argument takes an unexpected turn when the son decides to leave.
LAB MAN is a docu-portrait about Arturo Arnold, a master of emulsion who processes all the 8mm and 16mm motion picture film for a busy film lab in North Hollywood.
Biggy struggles to maintain his late father’s allotment while grappling with his troubled past. As he tends to the neglected plots, he discovers a path to redemption and an opportunity to honour his father’s legacy.
A late-night radio host receives a series of eerie calls that blur the line between memory and reality, leading him into a haunting confrontation with grief, guilt, and the voices that never truly leave us.
Interweaving the personal and the collective, this film follows the echoes of a painful past—the burning of Kurdish villages in 1990s Turkey—and explores how these memories, captured through a family album, ripple across generations.
A Palestinian family deals with the loss of their 22-year-old son Omar after he was shot dead by the Israeli military. The film follows Omars younger brother, his sister and his mother who live in a Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem, West Bank. While Omar’s sister Rama holds onto old memories and pictures, his brother Mohammad rarely talks about Omar’s death. But one evening, above the roofs of the camp, he shares his deepest thoughts about the future with his best friend. Omar's death has left deep marks on the siblings and their own will to live. While they struggle to move on with their lives, Omar’s mother is torn between pride and grief. She believes in the meaning of his death as a martyr.
What language, what images exist for the consequences of violence? The consequences of violence on the individual, on the environment? An experiment between animated film and literary text.
In the shadow of their mother’s death, two sisters confront a locked door that hides more than grief. As minutes tick toward a flight to London, the barrier between them forces an unexpected rite of passage, where sisterhood, loss, and love collide.
Drawn to a mysterious online phenomenon, an isolated young man finds himself tethered to an on-screen entity that may or may not be trying to harm him.