Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic.
The Red Room (2016)
A story about Nikola, a retired math teacher, who leads a quiet and private life, until he begins to feel a need to escape the loneliness that slowly is killing him, day by day. He decides it’s time for change and becomes the star of a very popular TV-show called “Love for all”. The concept of the show is to help old, lonely people to find life partners.
A Naked Boy (2015)
A forty-five-year-old history teacher, Jin-tae, has hallucinations about one of his students.
Stray (2015)
Set in a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a struggling heterosexual, admits himself into a straight conversion camp. What begins as a cure to his deviant lifestyle, becomes a journey of self acceptance.
Hiraeth (2021)
Hiraeth is a heart-breaking film that explores one woman's grief at the edge of the solar system. Amber Jones, a British astronaut on the first manned mission to Europa. She's a controversial choice with a checkered background.
Art Through Our Eyes (2016)
As an omnibus of short films, Art Through Our Eyes is inspired by the art collection found at the National Gallery Singapore. Each of the five directors – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Ho Yuhang and Joko Anwar – handpicked a masterpiece from the 19th and 20th century as inspiration for their short films.
Tomorrow (2014)
New Year's Eve 1999 finds college-bound Clark and Trevor concerned about the future of their friendship, and a request for Clark to be Trevor's wingman ensures things will never be the same again.
Home (2003)
Life in the neighborhood is bleak for Dorrie, a misfit 10-year-old whose restrictive upbringing by her disillusioned grandmother leaves her with few friends and a desire to repeatedly run away. But now her mother Lorna is coming home for one of her rare visits, this time determined to turn over a new leaf -- to stay off drugs, raise her daughter, make peace with her mother. All Dorrie wants is to have her little family back to what it once was, but the future will come at a high price, higher than any of them could have imagined.
Kiss Me (2012)
Kid Vargas is forced to face up to some devastating truths after he kills his opponent in the boxing ring.
A Mighty Nice Man (2015)
Patricia Highsmith's haunting story of a day in a young girl's life when a kind stranger comes to town.
Stalked (1968)
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home to escape God. Films like this would be shown to adult church groups to stimulate discussion - such as “was this man being stalked by Jesus in wooden shoes?”.
It Comes at Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Dotty (2013)
A lonely 9-year-old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest. Inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women; old enough to be his grandmother. Dotty invites the boy into her rainbow decorated caravan that is littered with exotic memorabilia from her past, and in particular an incredible collection of brightly colored shoes. The boy, who has a hidden sadness he wont discuss and a suspicious bruise on one arm is able to forget about his troubles momentarily as Dotty and the boy embark on a journey that spans her colorful life.
Shallow (2012)
When newly elected MP Richard Dove runs over a young girl on a deserted forest road, he must decide to what lengths he will go to save his blossoming career.
Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader (1999)
Don't you want devoted followers? Helpful tips for luring people into your cult and psychologically manipulating them into devotion to you, and enforcing your powers. A satirical drama.
Growth (2016)
The rise and downfall of a family over the course of 20 years, in one living room, in a single shot.
Dumpling (2011)
An ex-boxer desperate to connect with his only son gives him a gift on his 21st birthday that will change their lives forever.
Green (2016)
In Alonso Ruizpalacios’ bracing and stylish film, security guards in an armoured van try to manage the stress that comes from being close to a pile of cash in Mexico City. The team’s stability is imperilled when one member nears his boiling point.
House Comes with a Bird (2022)
It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.