Film Lull

A film about the life of the city and citizens. In the center of the plot is a small child who accidentally comes upon two builders and radically changes their everyday life.

A police investigator is violently interrogating a boy accused of subversive activities. Meanwhile, at home, his wife is tending to their gravely ill son. There is a strange link between the pain he is inflicting upon his prisoner and the recovery of his son.

The cameraman tells his yet-to-be-born child, Pamir, “Listen, I am going to tell you the story about my village.” The people of the village are constantly working, the camera lingering on the hands. The landscape. The traditions and rituals of the people. A woman with a tambourine. The spinning shamanic dance of an elder. A mother swinging a cradle gently. The newborn admonished not to forget the Motherland.

From the cycle "Lullabies of the World". The boy dreams of becoming a bird to sit on a tree and cradle it. But my mother is afraid that her son will freeze.

Li-hua is a single mother in Oslo struggling to make ends meet. "En Midnatts Vuggesang" is a subtle look into the life of a working-class immigrant in the Western world, navigating life moment by moment.

Sound and scenes from south of Iran. The story of a musician omitted from society, who inspired a generation by songs of freedom, love and pain.

This is an Indonesian horror film based on the lullaby ‘Oo Nina Bobo’. The chilling tale depicts the life of a young boy whose entire family was murdered in their house and he has since become mentally unstable. A few years later, the young boy believes that the death of his family was no accident and they had fallen victim to a demon who is coming back to finish what it did not all those years ago.

The second in Norio Nanjo’s “Secret” series. The former secret phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata) and Yume no Gosuke (Ashiya Gannosuke), who escaped after clashing with their superiors, travel to the castle town of Kurume in Kyushu.

A Lithuanian lullaby about a mouse. Sung by Žilvinas Ramanauskas

A paper dove swaying over a cradle with a baby angers an annoying cat, who starts chasing the dove around the garden.

The film is about what to do to calm the child.

"Tungkung Langit" is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but in the short film, two young children do not weep but offer an intimate perspective into their lives as they speak to each other about their experience during a typhoon that devastated their city and left them orphans. Speaking to each other of their trauma through play and in the smallest of whispers before falling asleep becomes “a means by which these orphans heal”; the film reinforces and envisions this healing.

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.

Thought to be a long-cold case, Detective Burhan Yusof's search for a long-lost child who has been missing for years is finally coming to end. The child, raised by his kidnappers, is riddled with questions about who his true parents are. However, the truth isn't so far out of reach, as there is more than meets the eye.

The film is the result of a charity workshop for children from Ukrainian families who came to Armenia. The film is based on their stories and memories to the music of the lullaby "Oh go sleep kolo vikon".

Grandma Yaga is torn between the need to be near her son and the desire to dance the night away with other witches. Will her friends help her solve the problem or will she have to make a choice?

When a supernatural entity has a poor struggling single mother, her children have no one to turn to except Ella Arcangel, a young girl endowed with magic and empathy.

Personal documentary from director Kana Tomoko, who has covered environmental issues and people suffering misfortune in films like Beautiful Islands. This film documents the pregnancy she discovered immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and follows her experiences until the baby's birth. In the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Kana was 4 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant documenting the people who were forced to evacuate because of the nuclear power plant accident. Then, she discovers that she is pregnant. Her first pregnancy at the age of forty takes her by surprise, and she worries about the impact of radiation on her unborn child.

In the midst of an ongoing siege, a reluctant child combatant finds a safe place to pray where he meets a newly orphaned, infidel boy who seeks refuge in the unknown.