Machines are checking and sorting nature in an industrial greenhouse. Human hands only intervene to straighten anything that is crooked, plant delicate items, or clean the mechanics to ensure things continue to run smoothly.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
The Alice of fifties animation visits the Wild West of fifties live action, but only through persistence of vision, they never meet in the same frame. The original Alice and the original Wild West were contemporaries too.
Brothers Saud and Nadeem were raised looking at a sky speckled with black kites, watching as relatives tossed meat up to these birds of prey. Muslim belief held that feeding the kites would expel troubles. Now, birds are falling from the polluted, opaque skies of New Delhi and the two brothers have made it their life’s work to care for the injured black kites.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
A young waitress stumbles upon a dark and sinister cabal operating behind the scenes of the fast food diner where she works. She now has the proof she needs to bring this secret to light, but unseen evil forces are unleashed in a bloodthirsty attempt to stop her.
An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - International premiere
A London police officer goes undercover as a heroin addict in a small English town and manipulates an unsuspecting local junkie into working with him for a dangerous drug dealer.
They are the workers running your country. They have a conversation but it's unclear if they understand each other or if the problems have been solved. When the music ends, they are still trying to talk desperately to each other. There is no need to have the audio: bad communication has the same effect as being deaf and mute.
We follow the constantly shifting Thames downstream, in all its infinite richness, acknowledging how human intervention has shaped it, but also how the river continues to influence the lives of those who live around it, from source to mouth.
No matter how he looks at it, Tobi knows his good, hard-working African mother is not about to let him be a drop-out, despite how successful he is on these streets.
DUST & METAL (CAT BUI & KIM LOAI) brings together for the first time a live cinema documentary featuring past and present stories of freedom in Vietnam. With a population of 97 million, and 45 million registered motorbikes (the highest in South East Asia) that’s almost one bike for every two people. The urban roads and ‘hem’ alleys are only accessible by two-wheels. These roads are awash with the transportation of goods of all types and sizes on the back of motorbikes, including washing machines, entire families, and chickens. The sounds of engines and horns create a symphony of Vietnamese life. In a unique partnership with the Vietnam Film Institute, archive film is edited alongside contemporary footage and a live score composed/performed by Vietnamese artist Xo Xinh.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2022 - Rhythms - World premiere
