Movies: Self reflection

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions....

Ambaradan is the story of a need: the need to feel accepted, integrated, and acknowledged by others - Luca has only one belief - hate - he does not recognize the color of his skin, but only the "black" of his ideology. His life is an ambaradan, a cha...

An immigrant in Istanbul, the Russian filmmaker finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place: on the one hand, his legal status becomes uncertain amid the turbulence of Turkish presidential elections, on the other hand, the crackdown on disse...

Left for dead on an abandoned earth, a struggling man must accept his situation and reconcile with his unsettling past....

On a busy beach on the Aegean Coast, we meditate on a turning point in life....

A short film that navigates the filmmaker's intimate journey with death and other fears. Through the filmmaker’s inner monologue, the film explores the universal struggle with mortality....

A following deceit leads Giovanna to dwell over memories from her past relationship....

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During a night out, Álmos, a queer teenager, discovers that his partner and friend have been lying to him. What begins as a painful experience soon turns into a journey of self-discovery, leading him to reconnect with a part of himself he thought was...

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The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe Walter, a shakuhachi player from Germany, lives there with his wife Mitsuyo for 30 years. Together with the villager...

In the ruins of a world devoured by human greed, the last man plunges into a decadent frenzy: devouring rare plants, octopus flesh, the final drops of water, and eventually blood. But nature is not silent. A mysterious girl with a white rabbit appear...

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When a cynical and self-destructive young man finds that he's become invisible to his friends, a journey of self-reflection is needed to believe in himself again....

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road....

After receiving an anonymous threat regarding intimate photos shared on social media without her consent, the inner world of Ágatha, a lonely young woman, undergoes a profound shift and turns against her....

Pocho Huerta is an unemployed stuntman waiting for his students to come to class, until he realizes that no one will come because he forgot to promote it. This leads him to wonder about his life, death, and overall purpose....

A short poem about healing after a traumatic event in the narrator's life....

As young adult Quinn cleans out their childhood closet, they reflect on the keepsakes they associate with their gender identity struggle, and ultimately come to a decision that could change their life for the better....

"Cause all the music you loved at sixteen, you'll grow out of. And all the times they will change, it'll all come around", Lorde humming in her song, Stoned at the Nail Salon (2021). It gets me, 15 years old Alma, into something that she fears the m...