After their home reef is destroyed by a fish trawler, Jake and Shorty, two young fish friends, along with Indigo, Shorty’s sister, go on a quest to find a legendary coral reef, one that has never been found by humans. The trio sets out on an adventurous journey, where they will learn about courage, friendship and the ocean’s last underwater haven.
Ritu does not trust her mother because she has always been compared to her. The situation worsens when Ritu falls in love with Sunny and her mother tries to intervene.
With a frantic editing and using images created using artificial intelligence tools, the film "Morbo" proposes a journey through the streets of a large Brazilian city in which the dualities of urban life are explicitly amplified. By mixing mundane scenes of everyday life with moments of raw violence and effusive celebration, the film challenges perceptions and invites us to reflect on the complex nature of the human condition. Where does celebration end and chaos begin?
Gary "G Thang" Johnson takes to the stage in his very first stand up comedy special as a call to action to embrace adulthood, face the chaos, and always have a plan.
A woman, who as a child exchanged kisses as if playing a game, remembers, now elderly, the night she killed her love with a little kiss. As an analogy, she says that she caught a rare and special blue shrimp and took it to her fishbowl. Young, she fell in love with a boy after a night of drinking, and questioned the relationship she had with the love of her life. Between memories, it is not understandable what happened, what was or wasn't done, nor what she wanted. At the end of the night, she went to bed next to her boyfriend, but in her dreams she confessed and woke up alone. As an elderly woman, she still experiences this loneliness, and ends the story saying that the water in the fishbowl was not good, and the shrimp died.
Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.
A cosmic tragedy following a cataclysmic collision of galaxies. Two survivors navigate the strange new world in which they find themselves, searching for a place in society in order to survive and build a new life together.
Superheroes play a leading role in many contemporary films, and Latin American animated films are not left out of this. This is evident in La Súper, the colorful first feature-length film by veteran Cuban animation filmmaker Ernesto Piña. Yudeisi is a young woman whose fight for justice makes her the chosen one for a series of superpowers. These do not come from technology or experiments, but from an aboriginal warrior who freed the inhabitants of her village 500 years ago and whose spirit resurfaces to fight for good. Yudeisi as a new defender uses her qualities to defend women from male violence.
Newly widowed Ruby feels elated by her husband's recent passing and is quick to move on with her life. Her grandson Tim, who she has tumultuous relationship with, attempts to get her to hold onto the good memories of his grandfather.
In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from Beirut. It documents the burned and destroyed cultural and educational centers from which Israelis stole films, photographs, and historical and contemporary manuscripts. It includes interviews with key members of the Palestinian cultural scene such as Mahmoud Darwish and Ismail Shammout and those in charge of cultural and educational centers that were destroyed.
Chinese-Australian Artist Jiawei Shen has a plan. His wife Lan Wang says it is crazy. But nothing can stop him on his obsessive mission to create a monumental 130 square metre painting of the turbulent history of Communism. Jiawei’s 10-year deep dive into the bloody history of revolution is counterpointed by a profoundly intimate portrait of his marriage to artist wife Lan, forged in the chaos of Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution. With hundreds of portraits and remixes of iconic artworks, can Jiawei complete his epic Tower of Babel masterpiece while facing the considerable risks of revealing it to the world?
Ismail Shammout, an artist who is primarily known for his paintings, also served as director of the Cultural Arts Section of the PLO and worked with the organization’s Film Unit in the 1970s. In this short film, Shammout records a solidarity song by the Palestinian Egyptian singer Zeinab Shaath to announce the most urgent call of Palestine. The song and the words of Kamal Nasser that break through the ballad continue to hold striking relevance today. Lyrics by Lalitha Punjabi.
