Genres
2020

Movies

The Passing On
The Passing On
Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker. Today, renowned embalmer James Bryant puts his faith in a new generation to continue this vanishing legacy. However, his young intern, Clarence Pierre, meets him with resistance, conflicted about his commitment to carrying on embalming traditions and the judgment he feels from the Black community as a queer, Christian man. Taking place in the oldest Black funeral home in San Antonio, this poetic documentary examines the waning tradition of African American funeral homes.
The Passing On 2020
Quota
Quota
Film relates the situation faced by an ambitious, loyal and happy family in their daily walks of financially uncontrollable lifestyle. Adding much to the movement of the story, the pinching of the boys with acute sense of humor lifts it to a different level. The difference in opportunities, opinions, judgements, reservations between the rich and poor forces the boy to challenge his talent which results in attaining the prejudice with his determination and hard work.
Quota 2020
12
12
not there yet
12 2020
Butenland
Butenland
Jan Gerdes is a third-generation dairy farmer, but he struggles with his conscience when the milk yield decreases and he has to sell his cows to the slaughterhouse. After suffering a burn-out, he decides to give up his farm. On the day his last cows are due to be transported to the slaughterhouse, he finds that there's no room for twelve of the cows. Instead of ordering another transport, he and his partner Karin Mück decide to keep them. This is the birth of 'Hof Butenland' - the first cow retirement home in Germany.
Butenland 2020
Souvenir
Souvenir
A boy enters a world of fantasy to protect his loved one.
Souvenir 2020
Life
Life
a woman suffers from cancer
Life 2020
Glossolalia
Glossolalia
An anthology short revolving around the experiences 3 individuals and a city
Glossolalia 2020
The Poet
The Poet
Ahmet Dirimoğlu, who writes novels on psychology, goes to his house in the forest to write his new book. One night, he has an accident with his car. However, he cannot understand what he's hit. His mind, which is filled with the book, will become more blurred due to the accident.
The Poet 2020
Alejandro Sanz: el mundo fuera
Alejandro Sanz: el mundo fuera
Alejandro Sanz: el mundo fuera 2020
Nbisiing
Nbisiing
Afraid he would not see his community again Cole Forrest returns to North Bay from his current residence in Toronto. During his stay he confronts his fears and reconnects with his ancestors. Nbi means water and in the time of this pandemic, it is the lake, medicine, berries, and the land that he looks to for guidance.
Nbisiing 2020
Waiting
Waiting
Hasn’t she read his Facebook message, or is she ghosting him somehow? On the desperate wait for an answer in the loneliness of one’s own four walls.
Waiting 2020
Lillian
Lillian
A girl tries to deal with a tragedy she blames herself for on the first anniversary of it's happening.
Lillian 2020
One Last Time
One Last Time
"One Last Time" tells the story of Henry Bennett, a debt collector with one last job to do before he is free from his greedy employer, Mr. Otto. When Henry encounters a struggling family on their last leg, he must decide to take their money and be free or let them go and face the consequences himself.
One Last Time 2020
Switch
Switch
Claudio is a young scientist who works as an assistant to a famous researcher. After his boss dies under strange circumstances, he's accused of espionage and murder. Trapped within his employer's facilities, Claudio is forced to partake in a mind-control experiment whose outcome turns out to be quite different from expected.
Switch 2020
VE Day: Forever in their Debt
VE Day: Forever in their Debt
"Friday 8 May 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the formal end of the Second World War in Europe. “V-E Day – Forever in their Debt” tells the stories of those who experienced the end of the war in all its many forms. It features a wide range of interviews from children who remember the street parties, to the servicemen who remember not having to buy a single drink that day, then there are the POWs for whom a hot bath was all they wanted after years of captivity. The programme is richly illustrated with archive including a colour film showing the celebrations in London. Other archive films show a grumpy Montgomery taking the surrender of German land forces in northern Germany on May 4."
VE Day: Forever in their Debt 2020
Snakeskin
Snakeskin
When a young couple seeking a fresh start moves into a suburban neighborhood, their marriage is put to the test when their new neighbors begin to play games with them.
Snakeskin 2020
Alta Vista
Alta Vista
A screenwriter struggles to cope with the loss of his father, while getting himself entangled in Hollywood's underworld.
Alta Vista 2020
Cult
Cult
A documentary crew travel to a remote village in England to capture the lives of notorious cult 'Friends at the End'. F.A.T.E were once a growing religion but, after a miscalculated doomsday prediction in the 1950s, membership has dwindled. In recent years F.A.T.E have been linked to disappearances of former members, the leader Daniel Love has gone into self-imposed exile, and this year their crops are failing. Except the potatoes. In need of money, the gang recruit new member Rachel, at a local rehab facility. Rachel breathes new life into the group and, when she turns the head of lifelong member Comet, old relationships begin to fracture. As the comet that F.A.T.E believe will bring with it the end of the world approaches, the group's beliefs are tested. New secrets emerge which threaten everything the cult has been working towards.
Cult 2020
Cassette
Cassette
A young man working the graveyard shift at an old video store soon discovers something very sinister about the place.
Cassette 2020
Shadow
Shadow
The story of a shadow organization during the Renzong reign of the Song Dynasty, which specialized in training professional killers, obeying orders since childhood. During a mission, a killer found that the assassination target was innocent Bao Zheng.
Shadow 2020
We Got a Problem with Groundwater
We Got a Problem with Groundwater
Based on the poetry of Noah C. Lekas, 'WE GOT A PROBLEM WITH GROUNDWATER' is a surreal animated tale through the history and mindset of the horrifying working conditions of the American Midwest, as one man begins to realize his fate may very well lie in the notebooks his factory produces on a mindless day-to-day basis.
We Got a Problem with Groundwater 2020
Checkmate
Checkmate
The wife of the colonel gets murdered while the local SDO officer was visiting the Colonel house over a game of chess.
Checkmate 2020
Reborn
Reborn
A spunky teenager dreads going through her baptism ceremony at a Southern Black church.
Reborn 2020
Ride Scare
Ride Scare
Disturbed loner Tommy works as a ride share driver, cruising the streets, picking up strangers in the city. Except Tommy has a secret he keeps from his passengers: He's a murderous psychopath. When Tommy meets pretty office worker Jolene, he becomes obsessed with the idea of making her his next victim. Trapped in a vacant tech building, Jolene must run and fight to survive.
Ride Scare 2020
Bridge
Bridge
On August 1, 2007, the sudden collapse of the I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis shaped a community. Spencer Patzman’s debut documentary follows the many personal stories of one tragedy and the countless ways it is felt more than 12 years later.
Bridge 2020
Pull of the North
Pull of the North
In May 2016, a team of four adventurers began a three-month, 2,000-mile canoe journey from the source of the Yukon River in Canada to its mouth at the Bering Sea in Alaska. The expedition was made through the lands of the Athapaskan First Nation people who, more than 10,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia. The paddlers explore the strength of this culture and its landscape, animals, ancestral knowledge and spiritual beliefs. The expedition is a journey of discovery into what being human means to the “people of the river”.
Pull of the North 2020
Near Enemies
Near Enemies
A squad of American soldiers hunt down a suspected spy that escaped an internment camp during WWII.
Near Enemies 2020
Circle
Circle
A woman reconnects with figures from her past in Central Park in an attempt to save her granddaughter's life.
Circle 2020
august
august
31 shots/31 days, taken from 7:40-8:42 and placed in sequential order. shot in wellesley, ma.
august 2020
Not Me: A Journey with Not Vital
Not Me: A Journey with Not Vital
Not Vital, the internationally renowned, black hat-toting, Engadin-born artist, has seen more and achieved more than he could ever have dreamed. And yet his fabulating and playful inner child drives him restlessly on to fathom ever new realities. Although his works are scattered across the continents, every one of them originated from his childhood in the mountains. They reflect his longing for wonders and real adventures. Director Pascal Hofmann takes us on a mesmerising journey through space and time into the fascinating thought processes and creative works of this headstrong spirit.
Not Me: A Journey with Not Vital 2020
Letters of Hope
Letters of Hope
Set in 1976 Apartheid-era South Africa and based on a true story, this powerful film tells the story of a young man caught between his father's wishes and his own dreams. After his father is brutally killed, 16-year-old Jeremiah discovers that he had been delivering secret letters from freedom fighters in exile and prison on his rounds as a postman. When he learns that his father's last wish was for him to take over this work and continue delivering the letters, Jeremiah — who dreams of joining the police force — faces an impossible choice.
Letters of Hope 2020
Coming Home
Coming Home
Unforeseen circumstances destroy any hope of a man returning home.
Coming Home 2020
The New Normal
The New Normal
In times of coronavirus, Ana, pregnant, has the need to leave home.
The New Normal 2020
Pink Thief
Pink Thief
Jia Qing Chun dreams of a Parisian wedding. She now needs to plan it with the man she loves, but several things get in her way
Pink Thief 2020
Voices
Voices
A troubled young man deals with the competing voices in his head.
Voices 2020
Quarry
Quarry
Chronicle of the life of shift workers in a mining pit in Eastern Siberia. Workers spend a significant part of their lives away from home and loved ones, doing physical labor for 12 hours a day for the only decent income in their region.
Quarry 2020
Willem
Willem
In a confined prison cell, Alexander, a young Nazi officer, is awaiting Willem who has been convicted of blowing up a building that held records of local Jewish residents. Willem is also openly homosexual, in a time when people were persecuted for such lifestyles. As Willem and Alexander sit alone in the cell, the former attempts to engage in conversation with his captor, who initially remains quiet. But over the course of three days, not only do they begin to converse, but they begin to have a profound emotional impact on one another.
Willem 2020
Abduction
Abduction
After waking up in a field with no memory of how she got there, Mathilda reckons strange visions and marks on her body with the trail of judgement and cruelty that follows.
Abduction 2020
Limerence
Limerence
An isolated, anxious film projectionist becomes obsessed with a stranger, and falls headfirst into a terrifying fantasy.
Limerence 2020
Paranoia
Paranoia
Tomás is playing Counter-Strike with a friend when he hears a strange noise in his backyard. That day, his life will change forever.
Paranoia 2020