The Raising Of The K

After years of hiding in seclusion, a series of accidents forces a mother and her two young sons into the outside world that she has taught them to fear.

Between landscapes of rock and emptiness, stories echo of a fear that no longer exists.

RAISING RENEE is the story of a family's remarkable response to being broken apart and rearranged after nearly 50 years. The film explores deep themes of family, race, class and disability through the interplay of painting, cinema and everyday life. Produced and directed by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE is the third part of a trilogy about resilient families that includes their acclaimed feature documentaries So Much So Fast and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Troublesome Creek. RAISING RENEE is about a unique group of women, the tenacity of family bonds and the power of art to transform experience into something beyond words.

Elsa and Bo are eagerly expecting their first baby. While Elsa gets the baby’s room ready, Bo composes a special musical piece for the occasion.

A dream-like recreation of a moment in the Warsaw Ghetto based on the famous photograph of a frightened child with raised hands.

The film is about volleyball coach Nikolay Karpole.

Intensely and for a long time Valery was looking for an occasion for achievement. Seventeen years of boring life have formed a scornful gait among the young man in protest towards an eventless world. But ordinary everyday difficulties came, followed by the responsibility for making decisions. And it turned out that everyday life is not just past days. This is real life.

As Kiryu Sento prepares for the proxy battle against Kamen Rider Grease, Nariaki Utsumi appears and offer his help.

An absurd celebration of pop culture parenting that finds a way to make animal sacrifice fun again.

Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test when her husband is hospitalized with respiratory illness caused by unsafe working conditions.

In a chronically stressed society, a teenage spree killer is born. Based on a true story.

The place of memories and the struggle against oblivion can take many forms, something that is transversal to these two films and the work of Daniel Blaufuks. In Judenrein, meaning free of Jews, the director examines amateur footage of the 1980s in a small Polish village, rescued to find answers about his story, in a biographical reflection. In Levantados do Chão, a philharmonic band traverses an abandoned hotel in the Azores, and the emptiness left by the ruins thus refers to a past that is still present and prevalent.

This documentary talks about the process of KBN’s women workers struggle against sexual harassment at workplace. In the opening, an ex-women labor of KBN told her story about sexual harassment at her factory.

Angel lives with his mother and has homosexual inclinations. One day he meets Mirna, a prostitute who has a son. The three try to form a strange family.

A pastoral village that lies on a borderland. Its current residents speak about their dreams, and from these recollections emerge their own personal loss. Their dreams also overlap with those of the director, who has learned of his grandfather’s unknown past.

A documentary set in Paola, in Calabria, about the fight to occupy housing.

A quiet campsite. Some of the campers here disappear. One day, two sisters Eugene and Yeong-ok come to the campsite to camp. The owner, who cuts and eats raw, dripping meat, takes an interest in the sisters who are camping. The owner, Mansu, kindly takes care of the food separately and tells her to come home and use it comfortably instead of the messy public toilet. The older sister who drank and fell asleep with the purpose of having fun, but when morning came, only her younger sister Eugene remained in the tent, and her older sister Yeong-ok disappeared. Yeong-ok, who is captured and imprisoned by the owner, eats only raw meat without missing a single meal, and her sister Eugene, who is left alone, begins to tremble in fear.

Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom. A ruined widow’s daughter Jum-soon has no time to rest, as her mother-in-law treats her like a maid, leaving her with all the kitchen chores, house cleaning, grinding grain, and sewing, while the mother-in-law smokes a pipe and nitpicks on her. What allows Jum-soon to endure is her ‘duty as a woman’ taught to her since young and her child husband’s lovable yammering.