If a goddess has come down to earth, could she bring back lost time for man? Ning takes a substitute teaching position at a rural school, hoping to find inspiration for her novel from nature. One day after class, students Richard and LAM Mak-noeng, a mysteriously masked girl who shares the same name as the Empress of Heaven, come to her for help. It turns out that Mak-noeng is about to disappear. Faced with such an ethereal problem, Ning takes on the responsibility of a storyteller and seeks a happy ending for this heavenly romance. The director, who has always been interested in urban issues, has continued to mix historical and fantastical elements like he has done with Interview with Lo-Ting: An Oral History Project (2022). A modern love story with celestial inspiration, the film gently caresses the remnants of our city and the melancholy of lonely souls.
As a teenager, Warti carried too much burden: being a mother, the backbone of the family, as well as a victim in her own household. She tried to breastfeed her baby, but stress and malnutrition prevented her from producing milk. Meanwhile, her husband, Supri, is immersed in online gambling and violence. From behind a pile of false eyelashes that she strings together to survive, Warti searches for the strength to make a decision: stay in the toxic household, or leave for a better life for herself and her baby.
I hate the lies that brought me here, the illusions I once trusted. I tried to change what was never real, and now I carry the burden of my own delusion.
A group of five find themselves trapped somewhere with no light, no way out, and no memory of their former lives. With no way out, the group tries to figure out who could've done this to them and what it takes to escape the inescapable.
We thought it’d be easy, grab a kid, make a call, get some cash. Turns out the “kid” was way too calm about the whole thing. Now the cops are circling, my friend’s freaking out, and I’m starting to realize… maybe crime just isn’t our thing.
When two documentary filmmakers profile an eccentric tissue peddler, they grapple with their morbid curiosity when they find out that beneath her brittle charm lurks a disturbing little secret.
A young, self obsessed, stubborn actor, goes in for an audition for a movie that is being directed by one of his role models. As he does the audition, he think it's going great, until he realises that his idol is not impressed.
It’s a quiet summer’s day in a small Swedish town. As the alarm goes off on a young woman’s phone, it sets off a series of events that she’s been planning for a long, long time.
A group of small-town Iowa musicians reconnect to record a song, rediscovering the power of community amidst the rise of isolated creativity and AI-powered art.
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.
A lonely girl buys a house plant and becomes infatuated with it. Her obsession with the plant grows and spirals out of control, cutting out everything and everyone else in her life.