The story traces the life of a legend of popular song, Rosa Balistreri (the Sicilian Janis Joplin) who, at the twilight of her life, relives her past, from her childhood of poverty to her fame as a singer, from working in the fields to the most prestigious stages. Rosa is ready to face any sacrifice in defense of the weakest, the workers, the abused women, to fight against any abuse. The story of her incredible destiny offers a glimpse into the soul of an extraordinary artist, into the spirit of a rebellious woman and into the heart of a mother trying to win back the love of a daughter she thought was lost.

Set in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1864, Ka Whawhai Tonu tells the story of a pivotal battle in the first New Zealand land wars in the Waikato region. A battle fought with impossible odds between Māori and the Colonial forces. This heroic conflict is told through the eyes of two young teenagers forced to take control of their own destiny amidst the chaos of the battle and their escape.

The film tells about the tragedy that happened in one of the villages of our Russia. By chance, a police officer, Afanasy becomes a suspect in a serious crime. Locals are ready for the "Lynch" trial. Investigator Serditov faces a difficult task. On the one hand, he understands that such a crime should not go unpunished, but on the other, he understands that his job is to find out all the details of the coming.

Beneath the shadow of history, they drink, lose their minds, collapse—struggling to remember that they are still human.

On the eve of leaving for college, Braden Hall once again finds his mother lost in drunken chaos. Determined to protect his younger brother from the turmoil at home, he takes him out into the city for one final night together, a bittersweet journey of laughter, connection, and lasting memories amid the fractures of their family.

A Native American action short about redemption.
A former elite operative leaves a violent past behind to raise his daughter in peace. But when she's taken by the shadows he once served, he’s forced to return to the life he tried to escape.
Now, with nothing but his skills and a heart full of regret, he fights not just to save her—but to redeem himself.

A cold, disciplined contract killer agrees to an unusual meeting with a wealthy widow, but not everything is as it seem, and this encounter might have fatal consequences.

Blake Rice

In a not too distant future societal problems long not addressed are coming to a head. Housing has becoming a luxury, the police force has gone full tilt into militarization, human powered work is scarce and the political class is intentionally separated from the people it governs.
In the middle of all this is a new phenomenon: psychics. Some can emit psychic energy to read and influence people’s thoughts and some psychics emit energy blocking others psychic influence. After an initial panic at their first detection, they have been woven into the fabric of society. Every industry and service from government organizations down to lowly massage parlors have at least one psychic in their employ.
Scraping a living together among all this is Arthur who, along with his friend and associate BB, runs an under the radar business modifying people’s memories. People from all walks of life come to them to alter memories or soothe traumas that are starting to affect their daily lives. Through this business, both Arthur and BB’s outlook on life takes on a certain sheen. They are constantly confronted with people’s trauma’s inflicted on them by people close to the victim. They are confronted with people whose very job haunts them. This is where our protagonists and a harsh militarized police force come into contact.

Panourgia – Without A Trace is a crime thriller rooted in Asia, weaving corporate fraud, betrayal, and hidden allegiances into a story of resilience and identity. While suspense drives the narrative, its soul lies in the cultural textures of Malaysia and Japan — intimate details that anchor a universal theme: how ordinary lives are caught in extraordinary shadows.
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Hanan Rustam, a quiet junior IT technician, spends her days fixing servers and staying unseen. When she discovers strange late-night logins under cryptic names, she realizes something is wrong. Before she can raise the alarm, she is attacked and left in hospital.
Kenji Kamaruzzaman returns to Kuala Lumpur only to fulfill a duty he never wanted. But Hanan’s silence becomes his reckoning. Drawn into the mystery she left behind, Kenji unravels a web of deception that masquerades as systems sabotage yet spirals into corporate fraud worth millions—threads leading to an unseen order ruled by Panourgia, where ambition is polished into deceit and success conceals rot.
In chasing justice, Kenji learns the hardest truth—
that in a world built on Panourgia, even love can disappear… without a trace.

"COPTS" follows Joseph and Verena, two Coptic Orthodox teens as they navigate their Egyptian community within their home church. As they reach the next level of their lives in higher education, each of them must work through cultural expectations, their relationships with God, and the relationships between the people within their Coptic Orthodox Church.

Based on real events.
In "American Relics," an ambitious reporter and a conflicted museum conservator plunge into a century-old mystery when thousands of ancient artifacts were unearthed in Michigan, threatening to rewrite the history of the continent. As academic titans and religious leaders clash over the relics’ authenticity, secrets, betrayals, and buried motives erupt, forcing the truth to surface at great personal cost. In the end, the quest for fame, faith, and historical legacy collides in a dramatic reckoning that exposes both the power and peril of chasing legends.

The students taking an insignificant film course, in a small city, have the dream of one day making movies. Their teacher, somebody who once sailed and wrecked that same objective years before, doesn ́t want to get involved in their dreams and illusions so that they don ́t end up like him today: a failure.

When single parents Jacob and Laura separately bring their struggling children to Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden to grapple with shared family legacies of survival, they discover the possibility of building something new together… one day.

Shadow Trail is a journey through the mind of a brutal serial killer, which will guide us in a psychological game, manipulating us more than we could have imagined.

Perfectionist bride, Addison, is to be married on her late parents anniversary. But when the world starts to unravel in 2020 she has to decide what truly matters.

An unhinged comedy following the poster boy of douchebags, Jockey. After an interaction with an unlikely figure, Jockey must search for validation and undouche himself.

A comedic look at a typical American couple in the throes of growing older and all that comes with it for men and women. Inspired by hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia, Not Your Mother's Menopause puts the humor into unavoidable issues we will all face at some point.

In a remote, mist-cloaked town of North-East India, where superstition runs deep and ancient beliefs shape daily life, fear has taken a new form—severed human heads appearing without warning. The town is gripped by terror. Officer Tribhuvan, a rational yet weary policeman, is assigned the case and soon finds disturbing clues linking the killings to an archaic ritual of human sacrifice dedicated to the forgotten, bloodthirsty goddess BaazinggKhwatai—a deity believed to grant prosperity in exchange for raw human flesh. As the investigation unfolds, the lines between myth and reality begin to blur. Tribhuvan discovers that three marginalized individuals—Darzing, Nakota, and Mahendra—have committed themselves to revive the goddess’s cult, driven by generational suffering and desperation for divine retribution. Their path is one of faith twisted into obsession, as they prepare to complete a long-lost ritual of power and vengeance. Unbeknownst to Tribhuvan, his daughter Pooja, a spirited young documentarian, has infiltrated the cult to chronicle the sacrifices. When she goes missing, his mission becomes personal. In a desperate bid to save her, Tribhuvan joins hands with a mysterious monk who reveals a deeper horror—the cult’s actual plan may not be to appease the goddess, but to punish her through an act so unimaginable, it could unleash chaos far beyond their remote world. BaazinggKhwatai is a chilling, atmospheric descent into the human psyche—a collision of faith, fear, and fractured morality. Rooted in folklore yet burning with contemporary relevance, the film explores the terrifying power of belief and the extremes people will endure for salvation, revenge, and meaning. As the boundaries between the real and the supernatural collapse, BaazinggKhwatai leaves viewers questioning: when does belief become a curse?

Hawk and Berry are standing on a high-stand, looking for game. It would be a funny joke, if it weren’t so sad.

A toxic marriage, a dangerous affair, and a setup worth hundreds of millions — in this game of desire and betrayal, only the con survives. Body Heat meets The Talented Mr. Ripley — a seductive noir thriller where passion fuels the perfect con.

A 'Found footage' film following an aspiring filmmaker who creates an urban legend of a killer of foreigners. A multi-talented actor/journalist investigates suspicious accidents surrounding the creation of this fictional slasher and interviews a retired psychologist to dig deeper into the subject. All of this is intercut with short vignettes of a killer attacking different victims and footage of the killer stalking a woman in her 20s, which leads to a horrifying conclusion.

A young artist has her world turned upside down when an aberrant clone takes over her art- and her life.

Bullet and Lace, a neon-soaked, Giallo-inspired nightmare, follows a young woman whose favorite true crime podcast becomes the voice of the masked intruder stalking her through the night.

A veteran detective is paired with a transplant detective from Massachusetts to investigate strange occurrences in Cocoa Beach.

Blake Rice

After galactic invaders take humanity prisoner, three escapees take shelter on the run, and vie for the power of a mysterious stone that can bring the dead back to life.

A veteran detective is paired with a transplant detective from Massachusetts to investigate strange occurrences in Cocoa Beach.

When single parents Jacob and Laura separately bring their struggling children to Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden to grapple with shared family legacies of survival, they discover the possibility of building something new together… one day.

A poetic surreal Sci-Fi meditation on self-dissolution, existential anxiety, and the fragile echoes of memory. As her world collapses, Meg searches through fragments of a past love while confronting the quiet unraveling of her identity. Mirrored by a human girl navigating heartbreak in the present, the film drifts through the emotional residue—joy, loss, grief, and the absurdity of existence—that remains as everything begins to fall apart.

A veteran detective is paired with a transplant detective from Massachusetts to investigate strange occurrences in Cocoa Beach.

On her way to a Hollywood dream breakthrough with a $100 million Babygirl 2 pitch, an actress becomes entangled in the mysterious disappearance of her true love. How To Survive Hollywood is a playful and thrilling road movie about daring to keep dreaming and believing in yourself.

A way to end humanity many times over through nuclear annihilation has been created and perfected.
Are we sleepwalking into our own demise? What will it be like?
Any War Any Enemy is both a depiction of any war as well as the “last war.” The focus is on the human beings on the receiving end, which, in the next global war, will be all of us. Any War Any Enemy is an anti-war immersive poem a preemptive requiem for the world lost to self-destruction. This last moment is “stretched” into a series of mise-en-scènes that build to a shocking finale.

A man woke up in a strange house. The disappeared memories and the lost emotions complled him to star exploring everything in the house. Among all these extraordinary scence,the room gradually became empty,and he gradually became plentiful.

Once you start digging yourself into a hole, it’s very difficult to stop.

"Messages from the Marsh" is a work in progress for an immersive experience featuring video projections, sound art, and mapping. The project showcases marsh locations along the US East Coast that are projected to be underwater by 2050 due to sea level rise, tides, and storm surges. Videos highlight the unique otherworldly beauty of these locations, both above and below the waterline, with environmental elements playing a significant role in co-producing the videos.

Kalju is a lonely arborist who lives on top of a hill deep in the forest. As if carrying a punishment, he drags long logs and heavy stones to his hill, like Sisyphus once did. Once Kalju was in love, once he got married and once he had a lovely daughter whom he admired very much. But he was heartbroken when his wife left him and took their 4-year-old child with her. Time has passed, but pain has remained. When the daughter finally calls him and announces that she is expecting a child of her own, “The Rock” (that is what the name Kalju means) is confused. For the first time in his life, he goes through his old diaries and recordings to figure out what went wrong 30 years ago. Against all odds and despite his age, Kalju has not lost hope of finding new love. To attract potential candidates, Kalju is going to erect the highest observation tower in the region.

Misha, a photographer, uses his grandfather's camera to recreate a family album, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens, secrets and violence surface, yet memory's fluidity offers a chance for redemption.

On opposite sides of the Pacific, two master leather carvers--one in Wyoming, one in Japan--have spent decades shaping a global tradition. I Am Only a Craftsman follows their quiet friendship, forged through floral carving, cowboy aesthetics, and a shared commitment to excellence. The film traces the unlikely rise of the "Sheridan Style," a uniquely American leather art born in rural Wyoming and adopted across Japan and Asia in the 1990s. Through intimate verite scenes and layered archival storytelling, the film becomes a portrait of two solitary men--Jim Jackson and Taka Otsuka--whose cross-cultural bond transforms their work, their lives, and their understanding of what art is. A meditation on craftsmanship, humility, and human connection, I Am Only a Craftsman is ultimately an argument: that sharing tradition makes it stronger, and that beauty, like friendship, knows no borders.

Four high-performance athletes train hard while they share their
thoughts about their lives, their disciplines and the complex relationships with their families, their affections and their bodies. All four of them have a disability that, rather than taking us away from their experience, they bring us closer to them.

Artistry leads to freedom when a dancer's early years behind the iron curtain equip him for a creative life beyond it.

Dr. Anna Chacón, a proud Hispanic-American dermatologist based in Miami, broke barriers in one of medicine’s most exclusive fields dermatology. The film follows her journey of resilience and cultural pride as she builds a national telehealth practice and brings care to patients across the United States. Interweaving stories from her family’s medical legacy and one of her most remarkable patients, the documentary explores how heritage, compassion, and perseverance shaped her path and what she hopes to achieve next in making dermatology more accessible to all.

Has Anyone Seen Bill follows hard working, middle management Bill, a kind, 51-yr-old man whose obliviousness to the instability of employment in America sends him tumbling into homelessness after one bad decision.
Bill is a nice man who lives a solitary life after a rough divorce. He believes everything happens for a reason and that everything will work out...as long as you try, but as a sea of shiny new hires encroaches with a new self-organizing structure in the company he's worked at for over a decade, Bill decides it's time to pursue independent consulting.
Two months later, Bill's prospects haven't panned out and his rent and car payments have drained his bank account. Like 68% of working Americans, he had no savings.
As Bill tumbles through one-way socio-economic trap doors, his faith that things will turn around begins to falter. He moves out of the apartment he can no longer afford, and unable to meet the income requirements for another one, finds himself living in a local run-down motel. He takes any work he can get, mostly delivering meals and groceries.
His bank account overdrawn, he starts to sleep in his car, still believing he'll be able to climb back out of the hard times. When his car is suddenly repossessed, he joins a small group of squatters and for a while has found a new kind of home with people who care about each other. But when a young squatter dies of pneumonia, the group splinters.
Bill is once more living a solitary life, now as one of over 35 million Americans living in profound, inescapable poverty.
Has Anyone Seen Bill delves into the complexities and misperceptions around housing insecurity, and how a perfect storm of inflation, job market viability, overpopulation, reprehensible wealth disparity, and affordable housing shortages has brought homelessness to the doorsteps of a staggering number of Americans.

When single parents Jacob and Laura separately bring their struggling children to Isamu Noguchi's sculpture garden to grapple with shared family legacies of survival, they discover the possibility of building something new together… one day.

She was only 17. On Valentine’s Day 2001, Alejandra left work and never came home.
Seven days later, her body was found — raped, murdered, and abandoned near a shopping mall in Ciudad Juárez.
Her mother, Norma, didn’t wait for justice. She hunted it down.
A schoolteacher turned investigator, activist, and relentless voice, Norma has spent 24 years confronting silence, impunity, and a justice system designed to protect the guilty.
She’s been threatened. Shot at. Told to leave the country.
But Norma refuses exile.
She fights — not just for Alejandra, but for every daughter stolen and every mother silenced in Mexico’s war on women.
Norma – A Cry for Justice is a raw, urgent documentary that follows one woman’s unstoppable pursuit of truth in a country where femicide is a daily reality — and justice, a distant dream.
On 19 December 2025, after 24 years of struggle, Norma won at last her case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
This sets a legal precedent on feminicide for Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

The sensation of suffocation, whether physical or emotional, real or metaphoric, is a universal experience often triggered by traumatic events. This groundbreaking video, created by Michal Bratt in collaboration with the Spanish choreographer Israel Galván, aims to articulate this feeling through a cinematic dance medium. Depicting the struggle of coping with confinement, the protagonist embarks on a journey expressed with honesty, humor, and moments of madness, all in pursuit of inner peace and hope within the confines of a closed room. Will she find liberation? Will we?

This work dives into themes of humanity within brutalism, inspecting honest expression and finding freedom within structure.

A woman overcoming the grief of a cheating husband

This student film is a period drama follows a young World War 2 soldier named Bill stationed in a French Village. Celebrating a recent victory, he goes to a little tavern to celebrate only to encounter a mysterious woman at a local tavern. When she leaves her lipstick behind, the young soldier — quite smitten — is compelled to find her... only to find the truth may be more than he can handle.

Allamaprabhu Pattanashetty

How radical must you be to be heard – and how can understanding emerge amidst deep division? A climate activist, an anti-poverty advocate, and a media critic: three voices pushing for change, each fueled by frustration. The filmmaker doesn’t remain on the sidelines – she becomes part of the process, exploring how dialogue is possible even when worldviews collide.
With insights from leading behavioral scientists, this film examines conviction, doubt – and the challenge of building bridges in a polarized world.

This student film is a period drama follows a young World War 2 soldier named Bill stationed in a French Village. Celebrating a recent victory, he goes to a little tavern to celebrate only to encounter a mysterious woman at a local tavern. When she leaves her lipstick behind, the young soldier — quite smitten — is compelled to find her... only to find the truth may be more than he can handle.

A man with no voice lives a life of constant bullying for not having a mouth. In his darkest hour, the Voiceless Man meets a stranger who grants him a voice by drawing a mouth on his face. Finally obtaining a mouth, the Voiceless Man abuses his eloquence for hate and violence.

In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict, masked soldiers entered Adelina’s home and took her husband away, justified by the idea that he might belong to the “Shining Path” terrorist group. She would never see him again. After facing silence and contempt from the Police and Army, Adelina joins forces with the many other women who lost their husbands and children to military operations that were supposed to protect them. Together, they will unite to demand justice.