HATCH follows two couples and the wrenching decisions they each must make on a wintry Vienna night. Milo and Biljana, illegal immigrants seeking opportunity, must acknowledge that they cannot raise their newborn and hope to achieve their own youthful dreams at the same time. Across town, Thomas and Andreas, an older and more stable couple desperately want to welcome a child into their lives. Decisions borne of d ...
A boy and his mum live on an isolated farm. One day a Crow man crashes into their world. Mask characters combine with animation in this experimental short narrative film.
Octogenarian artist, Eric Smith, is preparing for what is intended to be his final exhibition.Or so he says. He has been ‘preparing’ for this next exhibition for twenty years and is still not satisfied that he is ready. He is an absolute perfectionist and even at the age of 88 he still puts in a full days’ painting at his home studio. Eric is an eccentric character, bursting with enthusiasm for life with a qui ...
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There are spirals everywhere in nature. But where is the nature in an increasingly urban and dehumanised world? A japanese woman, dressed in the traditional way, goes in search of spirals hidden in the maze of industrial concrete. Even if it means to create spirals by herself.
La spirale est une forme omniprésente dans la nature. Mais où est la nature dans un monde de plus en plus urbain et déshumanisé ? Une ...
With the Armistice of 1943, Michele, a young italian soldier begins his homecoming journey.The state of forced isolation in primitive, unspoiled environments leads 'the deserter' towards an intimate and profound relationship with the primordial essence of life. Within a changing and surreal landscape, favorable and adverse at the same time, Michele covers the span of human existence through his apparently accidental ...
The Test of Freedom: Muslim Americans and the Struggle Against Prejudice
Facing growing hysteria and bias, US Muslims live out their faith and confront discrimination in ways that uplift those around them. Rejecting portrayals as the villain or the victim, they set forward their own narratives about the role of Islam in an increasingly diverse and divided America.
The Resting Room tells the story of Adam, a lonely and unemployed former civil servant with an addictive personality who chooses to protest the system and state hegemony quietly, by resting continually and confining himself to his dilapidated surroundings in his one-room apartment. Socializing by himself in every inch of his self-made microcosm, Adam's situation will soon be exacerbated by the state monitor – an ...
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
