No Exit

Before the assault, feel the weight of the body.

The Buryat Underground Creative Association (BATO), the Nerpa music association and the Udmurt artist Toma-3000 tell how they started, how their bas-reliefs and images are connected with Buddhist mythology, what social and cultural themes they touch on, how their art helps the city and ordinary residents. And they also talk — each in their own way - about how important it is not to forget where you grew up.

In an effort to discover the depth of the country's polarization, four recent college graduates decide to travel across the United States gathering stories encompassing the spectrum of life in America. Their goal is to find the human stories behind the nation's social and political schism, proving that Americans are not tied together by political identity, geographical location or belief systems, but primarily by love, hope and dreams - universal truths.

Entries are Exit points to more complex Entries. It is a visual exploration, an assemblage of forces. The doing an undoing's of my mother: a warrior. The film is part of a large-project "Doing and Undoing: Poems from within", a series of art interventions created during my mother’s cancer and healing process.

A bunch of people exit the Church of Saint George.

In India, the powerful and wealthy Percy invites the Miss India Ravina to be the star of a new inter-active virtual reality game of life that his company is developing, and she accepts his proposal. In London, the illegal Indian immigrant Murli programmer is responsible for the development of the game. The shy Murli is dating Billy, a single Londoner mother with a young daughter. When Percy's assistants Theo and Aurora download and steals the game, Murli is incriminated. Murli tries to contact Percy to prove his innocence, while Theo takes him to the edge.

A young man is standing in a hospital room inhabited by his mentally ill mother. She is asleep; instead of waking her, he leaves the room. In search of distraction, he drifts through day and night. He embarks on a series of events that bring light into his fears, his identity conflicts, and his desire for a sense of belonging in this world.

A divorced couple have to go on a trip for the mental health of their only daughter after three years. During the trip, the truth of their past lives are revealed, facts that have led to their separation. The health of their child hangs in the balance as they continue their confrontations, potentially jeopardising their new relationships and their futures.

New film created for the 'Lumiere Brothers First Films' collection.

A painting workshop brings six people closer to art. Their living conditions lead them to seek a way out through this activity, even though they cannot share their works with the audience. A narrator who has gone through the same experiences accompanies the images and sounds that populate a six-week journey, until the moment his works are completed.

Workers leave the factory where they work once the day is over.

In the aftermath of 2014's Umbrella Revolution, five Hong Kong activists are confronted with the question of what it means to be Hong Kongers.

A small town movie theater manager is tortured by childhood trauma of having abandoned his mentally ill brother die in a fire.

In beautiful pictures and few words, the longing of two outsiders for a different, better life is told.

A major change in the constitution has revolutionized the life of thousands of people in Argentina, the legalization of same sex marriage. Following this event Mathieu and Augustin have led a very serious investigation throughout this huge country covering a wide spectrum of the population and asking them to testify about their everyday life and experiences since their coming out and their legal union.The result is a very beautiful, honest and touching documentary.

Recently divorced Sara decides to pursue her education abroad. Living in a conservative society, her parents refuse for her to do so until she is married once again. So she decides to search for a husband in order to travel.

When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. Hans is tired. Basically he can't be bothered anymore. He wants to die. But one doesn't talk about this. At best maybe with Willi, his friend. He trusts in him, he considers him as his ally, who should help him implement his plan...

The central character of the film has an unusual passion. He is ready to sacrifice a lot for it, including his own life. Exit Point is a film about decision making; in order to be free one must sometimes follow one's nature with no doubts. This is also a story of sacrifice in the name of superior values.

The film is about two people with developmental disabilities who are living in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu after ‘de-institutionalizing' from a residential facility for the disabled where they had stayed for long in 2020. There were frequent incidents and accidents in their independence process although it can be summarized in one sentence. The film attempts to illuminate the value of humane life by allowing their present where they live independently in the community and the past where they lived in the controlled environment of a facility to face.