Film Catalogue

A widowed mother and daughter’s ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveler in need of shelter. His presence awakens an erotic longing in both women.

By drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups in the Ivory Coast, the film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture. These forms, traditionally found in wooden and bronze sculptures, are translated into animation through charcoal drawings and frame-by-frame relief engraving on copper.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.

Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end up selling a piece of her body in order to keep a roof over her head.

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist finally admits to the negative impact that possessing the commonest name in the English-speaking world has had on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, the film takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.

Two newly-dead ghosts walk the streets of Athens, among the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. They were outsiders in life: he, a queer Lebanese translator; she a half-Irish photographer. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of life and its aftermath.

In the remote lands of New Zealand's South Island, the desolation of land and spirit forges an unexpected connection between two isolated strangers who, unbeknownst to them, are each other's only path to salvation.

Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.