Océane

A film from Israeli director Jacob Goldwasser.

Explores gender equality and how it affects relationships and love in the 1990s. Plot concerns Anna, an actress who is performing in a play about a woman artist who had to dress as a man order to attend lectures forbidden to women, and her brief affair with Andreas, a drop-out working as a bar waiter.

A young woman finds a magic chamber in her house, leading her to encounters with characters from the past.

Schoolgirl Mitsuko tries to protect half-Chinese transfer student Yu-Lian from bullies. That night, she discovers Emily, an old American doll. Given to a Japanese child during an exchange in 1921, it was hidden from the "doll burnings" of the anti-Western war period and saved by a brave young girl (Mitsuko's grandmother). At the next day's show-and-tell, Mitsuko tells the story of Emily and encourages Yu-Lian.

Two young men find safety in each other's friendship, taking shelter from online dating and past relationships.

For thirty years in the late-twentieth century, the people of Tahiti survived dozens of offshore nuclear tests by the French government. Since the country was colonized in 1880, the blasts left Tahitians picking through the remnants of their islands and culture in an effort to keep indigenous knowledges alive. The film offers a poetic glimpse into contemporary Tahiti, and the colonial struggles its people still face as they strive to sustain their way of life.

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers

When grandfather hedgehog sees the sun with its beams on the sea horizon, he thinks it's a hedgehog and tries to sail to it on a soap.

In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban countryside are exquisitely captured in director Kosyrev-Nesterov's elegiac feature debut.

Three Chilean performance artists who live with HIV, meet in complicity and affectivity on the maritime edge of the Pacific Ocean to carry out a ritualistic and poetic action where seropositive biographies, feelings and experiences intersect. The encounter and the entrance to the sea, as a return, allows that, being inside, a flame of fire emerges as a symbol of regeneration and transformation of things: light in mortuary memory. Fire, lives and ocean in its immensity.

Isabel is an Actress. Xavier wants to be a Director. Isabel is looking for Love. Xavier is looking for the Love of his Life. Isabel is stuck on a bad relationship. Xavier is looking for one. Isabel sings while Xavier watches. Will love rule the Ocean? Or will the waves strike hard on both of them?

A new era in the search for alien life has arrived as numerous bodies of life-sustaining water have been found all over our solar system.

“The ocean is the only crossing to reach Mount Analogue. Through each wave, which breaks into each of the primary colours, a gateway opens to a new perception...”. First piece of a short film series, inspired by the pre-Hispanic myth of the Sixth Sun.

Dezico sets out to sea on an adventure with his magical pet, Bean. The pair get separated in the dangerous ocean. While looking for Bean, Dezico has to face many difficulties on his own. Drifting along, he unexpectedly meets Chief Azure, a girl who's searching for the Heart of the Ocean. Together, they go on a fantastic adventure to the Forgetful Island where they find Wheeler, Azure's missing younger brother. In the end, Dezico reunites with Bean and does a lot of growing up along the way.

At Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims, a troupe of theatre actors stage a play based on an origin myth of Hinduism – the churning of the cosmic ocean. The legend tells of an epic battle between the gods and the demons for an elixir of immortality. The mela (or fair) is celebrated at the site where the elixir was believed to have fallen. Today, millions of Hindu pilgrims gather there to bathe in the holy river over a two-month period.

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far away from his past as possible.

This film is about a fisherman who lives in Isla Puting Bato, where the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program and the relocation of the informal settlers are about to happen as part of a clean-up drive. Some fishermen like him believe that after more than two decades, their fishing is about to come to an end. They get their food and income directly and indirectly through fishing and other related works like seafood trading, fishnet mending, and fish processing.

A couple and their son and daughter struggle through their divorce. The children try to cope after moving away to their grandparents', who live by the ocean, with the help of fairy tales that are told to them.