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Itä-Pasila

Itä-Pasila, the rough-around-the-edges neighbourhood filled with concrete building blocks, office buildings and diverse inhabitants, is at the centre of Anu Pennanen’s experimental film that mixes documentary with fictional sequences. This mostly dialogue-free film, scored by Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, explores the eastern side of the Helsinki borough divided in two by train tracks. As … Read more

Song of the Fireflies

The origin story of the Loboc Children’s Choir and how through their almost magical singing talent and the sheer determination of their teacher/founder from the 1980s to this day, continues to wow the world and bring pride and honor to the Philippines.

Grant Us Eyes

“Oh Great one grant me eyes so I may see thoust truest form under the morning sun of the dream you beckon us to, the haven of our kin. Free from the nightmare”

Top Lights

A top of the line rookie is forced to take charge of the investigation of the murder of the mayor of Winchester, VA, due to a clueless head detective.

¿Cuando te vas?

Patricio and Erica, a couple in their fifties who dreamed of enjoying their life as a couple, face an unexpected problem: Natalia, their almost 32-year-old daughter, refuses to leave home and has no plans to become independent. Desperate, her parents resort to increasingly crazy ideas to throw her out of the house, from gifts with … Read more

VIDEOHEAVEN

Since the 1980s, the video shop has been a desperately necessary space for film culture. In Videoheaven, Alex Ross Perry tells the story of the neighbourhood video shop to consider wider, changing social histories, using appropriated footage from the high and lowbrow.

Hippopotami

In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride that will forever change her perspective on life.