Once U

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

An episodic film showing death, in various forms, in line with the mexican idiosyncrasy.

A refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa.

A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, and teaching art at an elementary school, he raises the girls as if they were his own, but the financial grind to live in NYC is too much, so he decides to take the girls away from the only place they've ever called home and move back to Buffalo where he grew up. This "non-traditional" family now faced with change, new surroundings, and a new journey, must learn how to adjust to this new life, while trying to find themselves along the way.

The 24-hour veterinary clinic acts like a bridge, witnessing the birth, separation, sickness and death of animals that human ever loved. On the contrary, also filled with our hope and despair. Some of their lives are in danger because of human’s selfishness and ruthlessness. "Once They Were Here" tells the fate from different animals on the choice of human. Perhaps it is not pure love and random. The so-called equality of life is only reflected in the uninterrupted heartbeat.

Once there was a girl Noa has unconventional relationships with her doctor, with her neighbor and with a young soldier. Sleepless, she wanders around, trying to find her place in the world, willing to do anything to get some warm attention.

Through this exploration of three cows, each living in a very different environment, this documentary reveals the daily life and behavior of this fascinating animal with highly developed social intelligence.

A peddler visiting a small cottage in the winter. He tells some strange tales for the family living there.

The fairy tale plot about the old wife and husband without children in new realities. The old woman finds a baby in the cabbage and decides to take him home. She hurries back to her husband to show him the child. But sees him preparing for death.

In 'Once upon a time,' ('Yeki Bood Yeki Nabood', 2000), a magical letter transports two men, Fahrad and Iraj, to a small house in the middle of the countryside - and into a world that's filled with cute talking animals.The men are happy to go along with it, but when the animals follow them back to the city, there are much bigger problems to solve. A delightful film for young children.

For the film’s 10th anniversary, experimental filmmaker Kei Shichiri (DUBHOUSE, JAPAN CUTS 2015) presents an all-new sound and image remastering of his tour de force film (formerly translated as Before the Day Breaks). Based on a manga by Naoki Yamamoto, the film follows Aochi, who sleeps and sleeps but never feels like she has slept enough. Shichiri, who explores the limits of sound and image in his diverse body of work, presents a highly evocative dramatic film in which humans barely appear on screen. The story is told through voiceover, sound and visions of dreams and landscapes. Over the years, the film has gained fans, including contemporary auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who compared the film to those by Jean-Luc Godard. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

In the Himalayan foothills, an 80-year-old woman and a 19-year-old girl are two of the seven remaining inhabitants of an abandoned village. The two women struggle with the choice to leave for an alienating city life or continue living in a lonely village.

Scenes of wars, from World War II to the refugee camps of the 6-Day War, from the attack on the Mostar bridge to the cars set on fire in the war in Syria.

An introduction to the maritime lifestyle of the Crimean peninsula in the summer of 2020 using freely available streams from webcams installed in public places for the purpose of local tourism promotion.

Carefree days, youth and summertime. It is on a day like that when Hsin-lun meets Wendy and Johnny meets Bessie. Love blossoms. Hsin-lun and Wendy are married but Bessie is jilted by Johnny. After college, Hsin-lun joins a construction company. He is unhappy, what with the company's corrupt ways and a domineering manager. On the point of resigning, he learns of a traffic accident in which Wendy and his brother are injured. Wendy has a miscarriage. The need for money changes Hsin-lun completely. He becomes part of a gang...

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This sensitive report about rebellious teenagers in Berlin’s “wild East” was banned before its first screening.

A biographical short about French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.