At a speakeasy, a seductive, mysterious woman begins a flirtatious interaction with a suave but sleazy man, the conversation takes a murderous turn when the man reveals his misogynistic beliefs.
What can't be pronounced. What can't be heard. Words don't work. One person. Another person. Sharing their eyes. Seeing through. Connection. Polishing and taking care of the sensibility, the transmission, the crystal. We observe each other. We feel each other. Purity. Forever. And always.
Ayaka lives with roommates. One day, she is caught in the rain while waiting for her boyfriend when she happens upon an umbrella that had been thrown away. She picks it up but, after that, she is nowhere to be found.
One of Sydney's last film projectionists, Alan Butterfield, reminisces about the past and contemplates the present. Alan has been an SFF projectionist since 1987.
It was the Studio 54 of the Prairies, a club that owner John Reid vowed would be a safe place for ‘gay people and their friends.’ Flashback is the story of a defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion. Located in a conservative northern Canadian city often hostile to queer people, Flashback became a sensation on the international club circuit despite police raids, threats of violence and the scourge of AIDS. Flashback is a ghost. But it comes alive again in the memories of the people who were there and the legends they left behind.
"Promises" follows the reflection of a man, thinking of the damage he's done to himself and others, via his mistakes, and is learning to accept... hopefully make better promises.
Palestinian diasporic communities rely on the memories of relatives and ancestors to hold on to roots which were violently severed in 1948. Scattered throughout the world, the grandchildren of the displaced rely on memory and oral history to retain their connection to a prohibited landscape.
When burnt-out college professor Peter MacTire accidentally becomes a werewolf, he and his concert cellist wife Julia embrace the change to thwart an evil occultist plot, save the college, and their marriage.
A misty jungle opens the confines of time and space to converge the times of a colonial era, the echoes of an apocalyptic beast and the open-air prayers of a transanimal ritual. An incantation film, composed of three invocations thirsty for rage and faith in the world.
