Promise

Kang is a spoiled and rebellious city kid. When his mother travels overseas and leaves him with her father, Old Mo, Kang is quick to come into conflict with his old-fashioned grandfather and his shabby living conditions. No matter how spoiled and unreasonable Kang is, Old Mo remains forgiving and patient. Through his grandfather's boundless patience and devotion, Kang learns to embrace humility and cement the unyielding bond between grandfather and grandchild, by fulfilling a long-forgotten regret of Old Mo.

Governor Richard Tucker has made several promises that he has no intention of keeping. Crack heads still roam the streets, crime is still as rampant as the roaches, and the governor is only thinking of one thinghimself.

"You Promise?" takes place in Malmö, Sweden in 1988. The story follows Vida, 5, and her brother Alex, 3, when they get a new father figure in the family. It’s an aesthetic, poetic, and heart-warming short film about family love, divorce, and fear of change - from a five-year-old’s perspective.

Have you ever wondered how big the Sea of Galilee really is, or how hard it would be to climb Mt. Sinai? Have you thought about what Abraham's life was actually like? Well, Stevie is in the land of the Bible to find out!

In a small rural town, Alex, a former professional boxer, lives as a worker for a concrete materials company. One night, chased by armed men, his twin sister breaks into his home with a migrant and his daughter. Alex, forced by the situation, helps to hide them, unaware that they are keenly sought. The spiral starts. With no choice and under financial pressure, he starts competing in illegal boxing fights.

Purfled Promises was a work of expanded cinema. Two neo-drag entities entered the cinema and held a screen in front of the auditorium's red curtain on which a video was shown that consisted entirely of zooming shots of veils revealing more veils, increasingly baroque in nature until a voice over addressed the audience directly. As we'd been watching these 'reveals' it told us that what we hadn't noticed was the screen itself which was moving slowly closer towards us. At which point we did notice this and the screen kept on coming, its supporters clambering over the cinema's seats and audience's heads, finally laying it down on top of half a dozen of them who had to struggle out of it as the cinema lights came on.

A love struck young man makes a promise to his childhood sweetheart to save his love for her when she is sent abroad by her parents to study, however when she returns his situation is a lot more complicated than it initially seems.

A hometown farm boy hires a redneck demon hunter to help rid his father of an evil spirit.

A young waitress comes out from behind her apron to sing and win her a man, as the old songstress reconnects with her past to have a new life.

Paige Taul, USA, 2019, Super8 digital transfer, 6 minutes, English

Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.

A series of phone calls narrate Parker's mission to find true happiness through superficial obsessions.

Four contemporary Kentuckians — James Still, Robert Penn Warren, Ronnie Criswell, and Billy Davis — discuss their work and its relationship to the environment in which they live. Ronnie Criswell reads his poetry over scenes of a drinking and brawling neighborhood in Louisville where he grew up, works reflecting both a cynicism and an affection for that environment. Poet and novelist James Still, filmed at his rural Eastern Kentucky home, talks about his writing which expresses great fondness for and attachment to the region’s land and people. Robert Penn Warren offers his reflections on how the world has changed since he was a boy in Western Kentucky and recites some of his poetry about naturalist John James Audubon. Photographer Billy Davis displays his aerial photographs and is accompanied on a picture-taking flight in a small plane while he captures unique aerial views of the Kentucky landscape.

British musician and writer David Toop leads viewers through a tour of his voluminous record collection, reflecting on perception, the limits of music and the connections between seemingly disparate performers. This unusual documentary from filmmakers Guy Marc Hinant and Dominique Lohlé also captures Toop's progression from engagement to near exhaustion as he methodically combs through tens of thousands of records.

Antigone arrives in Sydney from Greece to have an arranged marriage with Telis, but is rejected by him as he expected a younger woman. Telis's older brother, Manolis, sympathizes with Antigone.

New generation. Same problems. The hilarious 4th instalment of the popular and successful franchise is back! More adventures with the Padayachee family, and the people close to them.

A depiction of the annual torments of the holidays.

A Chicago attorney races to stop a supernatural creature before it destroys his life and his daughter for their broken promises.

This documentary traces the story of Britain's failure to implement the Balfour Declaration, in which it promised to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine shortly after World War I. Told from the perspective of participants in the events, the film chronicles the political and military circumstances that led to the collapse of the declaration and the turning away of Jewish immigrants from Palestine in the 1930s and '40s.