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Noiy, a deaf boy struggling to survive on his own in Luang Prabang, takes refuge in a small school where he learns with other deaf children — and befriends Jane, whose parents do not want her to socialize with the deaf children at the school. When the two find themselves in serious trouble, Jane's father blames Noiy and threatens the school itself.
A strange child comes to Eun-ah, saying she can make save her deceased mother. Unablae to accept her mother's death, Eun-ah wants to bring her back to life.
Vagelis Douskas' first attempt at a short film
A love triangle between a pioneer female writer; her husband -a retired military official-and the love of her life, the painter Moritz Rugendas, with whom she maintains an epistolary relationship for 10 years, with few personal encounters.
Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Cannes. After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for traces of the familiar, Jiangyu meets his old love who now has a daughter.
A history of Lebanon’s Shiites, based on personal writings and memoirs. The film retraces the twelfth sect’s journey through Jabal Amel, the Bekaa Valley, Mount Lebanon and Beirut, while while exploring the major events and factors that influenced a people’s existence.
To spy on the consequences of his deliberate absence, a man hides for a long time in the basement of his house.
A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. The mother has abandoned the family, and the father, a retired officer, keeps his three daughters, as well as the illegitimate son of the oldest daughter, confined in the house. After his death, the three sisters live through their personal drama. The eldest, Eleni, imbued with the morals of the time and closely identifying with her father, tries to take his place. The middle one, Maria, representing rebellion, goes off with a captain of the sanitation service, while the youngest, Anna, skating on thin ice through all this, is completely destroyed.
Bernarda, an 82-year-old peasant woman, must face the loss and mourning of her husband, one more victim of a war that is not seen, but felt. A war that descends like mist from the top of the mountain leaving everything in its path blank.
The hands question what they can have in common with hands covered in cement, in mud, in dust, dressed in blue construction gloves and yellow cleaning gloves. Those hands that, instead of building houses, repeat images, stretch sounds, construct films.
Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.
Carlos, a man haunted by his past, plunges into an existential crisis that leads him to day-to-day apathy due to the loss of a child, an act that condemns a declining marriage and continuous desolation.
Hundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.
An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.
Lulú wakes up amidst the silence of a house that has been emptied. Five years ago her eight-year-old son, Brandon, and her husband disappeared. The absence they left behind now makes her live in a limbo that is also inhabited by desire, hope and the fight to find them alive.
After trying to revive once again the lost passion of her marriage, a young woman will make a radical decision she had planned some time ago.
After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself. Her younger sisterʼs attempt to stop the family from having her locked up in a mental hospital fails and brings about her own mental decline. The film marked Stavros Tsiolis re-emergence after a 14-year absence but was also the film debut of actress Pemi Zouni.
“Absence” Dima Barcha will tell the story of four former classmates. Five years after the release, the heroes face supernatural evil. The genre of the future tape can be described as a mixture of aesthetic horror and social drama.
"In 1991, I traveled from Buenos Aires to Germany to study film. Seven years later, I wanted to make this film: Images Of The Absence. The film tells the story of a family that never became one. My family. Images of the Absence is also a kind of diary of my journey from Germany to Buenos Aires to be able to understand the reasons for my parents' separation and for the long absence of my father. It is a film about love and the end of love, about growing old and death." - German Kral
The waves of migration from rural regions of India to the cities gets a lyrical portrait in Ekta Mittal’s exquisitely crafted look at longing and loss.