Mariken Halle first asked around her neighborhood if she might make a school film about one of her neighbors. When that didn’t work, she and her small film crew began addressing people on the streets of Göteborg. How would they imagine a movie that they would want to star in? The results were far from fantastic – she encountered dismissively amused responses and boring, confused ideas. But some of the people she talked to were different. They try getting into their “life role” – and she begins to direct them....

A struggling actress with an affinity for horses meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner ...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

A beautiful noble Senegalese woman arrives one day in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, and ...

Fanta Nacro’s debut film is a provocative look at cinematic illusions versus deadly realities. Riga ...

Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT ...

Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped...

Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot ...

'Fill your Heart with French Fries' is a sad comedy short - telling the tale of a young woman who ge...

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed...

The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfe...

Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...

After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her ow...

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husb...

On her birthday, Juliette is too upset to worry about the strange cleaner who imitates her every mov...

A year after her boyfriend dies from gun violence, a young woman prepares to graduate high school as...

Every Wednesday at noon, women who were kidnapped for sexual purpose by the Japanese army during its...

Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal ...

Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpec...

"Taking its title from John Keats’s early 19th-century poem, this highly personal melodrama finds Du...

Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single paren...