The Garden Of Allah

Elena goes home to the village, located on the front line in the "gray zone" of the Donetsk region, where she spent her childhood. In the garden, so that weeds do not climb on neighboring areas, her brother planted mustard. The girl lies down in the prickly grass and remembers how large and tasty apricots, cherries, pears and cherries were once.

Hikari is a newly expectant mother cohabiting with her boyfriend Taro. However, their relationship seems to be on the rocks. The couple has had trouble finding steady employment since graduating from college, and mounting financial problems further strain their relationship. Taro has a secret: he’s been relying on his eccentric aunt Kyoko, who has been acting strangely since losing her husband at a young age. Hikari’s first encounter with Kyoko does not go well, but Hikari visits Kyoko’s home unbeknownst to Taro and is introduced to a world where young women take part in bacchanals. This could spell doom for her relationship with Taro...

When a real estate salesman is threatening the peaceful idyll of an allotment garden area, their inhabitants make a stand to protect their little paradise.

Using landscape shots from a series of Soviet collectivization films to expose relations of the Nature and the Hero, director challenges widespread understanding of socialist realism.

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

Lin Alluna's 2016 documentary following a couple from Jordan

A couple eating at a restaurant. When I left the store and tried to go to the amusement park, I suddenly hit a passerby with a car. However, the two run away without stopping the car. I continued to drive while having a casual conversation, but I lost my way, perhaps because I was upset by the hit-and-run. On the way, they put a hitchhiking man in the car. A self-proclaimed novelist, he tells the story of "the story of the biggest fat in the world" and disappears into the deep forest.

An intimate portrait of an old man coming to terms with own mortality and letting go off his magnum opus - his garden. Living through an autumn of his life, he reminisces about his life filled with hard work, love for nature and onions.

A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.

Leila, a girl from a poor family, who has no choice but to pick pocket in order to make ends meet. Leila meets Hamid Doosdar, an investor Businessman, while riding Metro that changes her life direction. Leila falls in love with Hamid and there is only one thing on their way, Hamid's wife. Leila considers the only thing blocking her happiness, Hamid's Wife. She plans her murder by using her ex-lover, but the story takes a completely different turn...

The beginning of the domestic feature film is the story of the transformation of a naive fairground splint into a salon mystical melodrama. Having gone under the shadow of glass pavilions-greenhouses, early Russian cinema is trying to hide from the impending historical catastrophe. The revolutionary storms that have broken out drive some of the film visionaries first to the Crimea, and then to emigration. For those who remained, the struggle for survival in the new conditions begins with the development of the genre of agitfilm.

There are essentially two types of people: those who think with their stomachs, and those who think with their hearts.

A three-part poetic study of Cressingham Gardens, an early-1970s social housing estate in South London.

Dead of night in a residential area. The crickets' chirping is interrupted by a strange presence, a slithering creature lurking in the darkness. An extraordinary interplay of light and shadow and a prodigious sound design in a short film full of sheer horror.

A life form wakes up in an unknown mysterious world. As he explores it, he slowly understands what kind of place it is. This world seems to be a beautiful place, but it is also fantasy, lacking what real life can offer. The being must consider to stay in the fantasy or return to the real.

A woman (Mercedes Cabral) shares her story as a prostitute in front of the camera. A survivor, she looks back at her life as a mother. Milagros (Sue Prado) and Elena (Jam Pérez) are sisters tilling “camote” (sweet potato) in a dry land. Poverty provokes Elena to migrate as a mail-order bride in Japan while Milagros stays to take care of the family. Eos (Boots Anson Roa) is a widow who falls in love with a younger man, Rodrigo (Rome Mallari). They try to make the relationship work amidst the pressure of their family and the society.

The title Un enano en el jardin is an allusion to the Super 8 format and the setting where the actions that comprise the film unfold. A catalogue of extreme experiments with the mobility of the camera coordinated with brief improvisations by the Brazilian dancer Alice Bloch. It was mostly filmed with an Instamatic m22 camera (possibly the simplest and lightest Super 8 camera, with a fixed lens and manual diaphragm), so resistant that it functioned in conditions that would be unthinkable with a more complex camera, rotating at high speed around the optical axis or tied to a 35mm reel rewinder.