The Songs of Red Tresses: Woman, life, freedom

1988

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.

Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolanda's initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station. They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloban. With little option, and his crew started the six hour walk to Alto, where the closest broadcast antenna was to be found. Letting the world know what was happening to was a priority, but they were driven by the need to let their families and friends know they were all still alive. Along the way, they encountered residents and victims of the massive typhoon, and with each step it became increasingly clear just how devastating this storm was. This was a storm that was going to change lives.

Box

A doomsday pepper is surprised to find a mysterious box appear in his living room with no trace as to how it could've gotten there.

Hope or The Devil's Prey

Ken at Abel

Director: Karlo Montero (as Carlo Montero) Writer: Jigs Recto (screenplay) Stars: Norris John, Sofia Lee, Winston De Dios

Lunarcy!

In this irresistibly zany, sharp-witted documentary, director Simon Ennis introduces us to an unforgettable group of characters whose obsession with the moon and lunar colonization has given birth to utopian dreams of truly galactic proportions. (TIFF)

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A hitman is tasked to take out ex-mobsters when he suddenly hears a voice that questions his morality.

Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 3

Uchida Mayu is a high school student in a peaceful town near Tokyo. She suffers from violence from her stepfather and plans to run away to her uncle's home in Tokyo. As she is about to board the last bus to Tokyo, a terrible looking old person causes her to miss the bus. She attempts to walk across a ridge. Meanwhile, Mayu's uncle Uchida Kazuki is a freelancer writer. He chases after the hideous monster Yoshie who attacks people. Kazuki receives a phone call that his niece Mayu ran away. He begins a search for her and finds her cellphone on a mountain path. He sees Yoshie's picture on her cellphone.

The Hall-Room Girls

Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clothes....

Javier Guzman: Ton Zuur

Morir de pie

A young woman gives herself to her boyfriend but is forced to marry an army officer, who takes revenge on him.

The Dreamers

Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.

Kick Away the Smoke

After a walk in the woods, a smoker discovers a homeless soccer player who always misses despite being close to the goal.

Hanky Panky

Seven years after his mysterious disappearance, Vincent is ready to marry his new love. However, on their wedding day, his wife suddenly shows up.

Captain Nulle

Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolkhoz authorities are forced to include dubious characters in his crew, for example, former captain Bauze and silent alcoholic Juhans. The young captain lacks experience in working with so many fishermen on board. Unexpectedly, pretty engineer Sabīne is ordered to test a new construction fishing net on Nulle's ship and 'production conflict' between her and the captain arises...

TRAPPED

Trapped between lies and law, where danger lurks behind every shadow. The night’s edge cuts deep, and the clock is racing against survival. Will he escape, or is fate already sealed?

The Circus

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.

Reliance

A girl, Selinda, runs into her parents' bedroom in the middle of the night, claiming that a strange man just climbed through her window. The event causes a commotion in the entire residential area where they live. Some immediately assume that the outsider running the convenience store is the perpetrator. Others doubt the girl's story. In the midst of this drama, middle-aged Paul is trying to find his way back to his daughter, who is growing up, and away from him.

False Flag

A sidelined CIA Operator wrestles with the decision to execute orders for a false flag terrorist event or defy his own country in order to protect it.

L’Usine, le bon, la brute et le truand

Chapelle-Darblay is the last and only factory making recycled paper in France. Closed in september 2019 by decision of his finnish owner, it is now threatened of demolition. An hydrogene production site is planned to take its place. The 217 employees had lost their jobs, but three union representatives are still in the area, fighting to save the paper mill.