What to Watch Right Now

Nadine is tired and her whole body aches with inflammation and she can sleep. Her son Goldie keeps her active beyond her energy level. Her husband Jack owns a large AD agency and has been a loving husband who has recently expanded his romantic life beyond his marriage to include co-worker Maeve...who happens to be the ex partner of his sister-in-law: Lena. Lena is a burgeoning music writer who, getting over a break up, takes on an assignment writing about one of her favorite queer indie artists, Mia Hawthorne. Mia is out in the Berkshires, in search of inspiration, a bit frustrated with a high class problem: he record label wants her to have a co-writer. The mundane poetry of life ensues.

A thief from the jail has to catch up the criminals who is behind his arrest

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry's "Be Kind Rewind" protocols - a set of filmmaking "rules" with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.

Master seller Kihei persuades a curious fatherless boy, Ginji, to go to the regional rice exchange at Otsu village. We can watch how the stubborn Ginji silently grows, observes, befriends influential merchants, gains confidence, rejects contributions, drinks sake to increase his reputation, and strengthens his relationships with both friends and enemies. He chooses to cheat, lie, pretend, swindle and betray like all normal merchants who have more privileged rights. The fluctuations in the price of rice according to weather conditions force Ginji to adapt faster to loans, promises and debts, even while his eventual goal is forgiveness. (Edvinas Puksta)

Fascinated by finding beauty in the detritus and refuse of the city around her, a young woman wanders late at night looking in junk piles for items that captivate her. She meets Lawrence, an uprooted man who spends his life drifting, stopping to create mysterious sculptures made of light bulbs that few people see before they are destroyed. Meanwhile, a mysterious man wakes up in an unfamiliar surreal landscape and must travel a great distance to an uncertain end.

Two giant monsters are forced to battle head to head on the political circuit as they run against each other for a seat in the Senate.

Zhao Yi Zhong, a successful architect, and his wife have just learned that they are pregnant. At the same time, he also learns that he has bone cancer. With a grim prognosis, he decides to share his life with his child whom he will never know through daily recordings. Yi Zhong's estranged father re-enters his life and Yi Zhong struggles with accepting him.

A group of college students confronts rampant sexual violence on their campus, creating a play out of their lived experiences. An urgent coming of age story, ROLEPLAY follows these young adults as they grapple with questions of sex, consent, identity, and power on their path to adulthood.

Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.

Angel and the Devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade rocker, that he can't survive in the body of an old punker.

Mani Kanchan is a film about a brother-sister duo name Kanchan and Mani. They face hardships after their father remarries. Unable to pay a huge amount of debt, the father fixes his well-educated daughter's marriage to the mentally unstable son of the money lender. The brother-sister duo flees from their house and move to Kolkata to start a new life but the sister gets kidnapped. How they fight everyone forms the crux of the story.

On a Typical day on the sunny grasslands of Tibet, offering a rare glimpse of daily life shared between two family members that have been separated for over 40 years.

When Marian Longosi goes into hiding to escape her abusive ex-boyfriend she takes a job house-sitting. This results in her acquiring a canine with some odd habits as roommate. The small town seems safe enough but first, but Maria soon learns there's a black bear on the loose and then the police find the body of slaughtered man. To top it all off Jeff, her ex, is doing everything he can to keep in touch. Has Maria really found the safety she's been seeking in this small town or will her new fierce protector prove to be more dangerous than anyone would dare to guess? There's only rule when caring for this canine: Don't let her out after dark!

Set in the late 19th Century, a slightly unhinged man begins to obsess about his neighbour's 'vulture eye'. He is kind to him in the day but spies on him nightly at midnight, slowly intruding into his room in the pitch black. Finally on the eighth night, a ray of light falls on the offending eye inflaming our protagonist and driving him to murder. He has so objectified his nemesis that he sees this act only as a triumph over the 'evil eye'. When the police come to investigate, he is so confident he brings them into the murdered man's room for the interview and seats himself directly above the floorboards beneath which the murdered man lies. All goes well until he begins to 'hear' a tap---is it his imagination, or is it the thud of the dead man's heart? The thud becomes a thump and then a bold tattoo---he becomes convinced the sound is audible to the police who are toying with him.

An Englishman becomes leader of a tribe of renegade Indians

All the animals are having a jolly-good time at the county fair; the ducks are riding the ferris-wheel while the elephants are quaffing peanuts, and a real-friendly cow is selling kisses at a buck each, and getting some takers. All the animals than go boat riding but are caught in a sudden rainstorm, which is the cue for the bouncing-ball to come bouncing along, and ask the audience to follow-the-bouncing-ball in group-singing "Wait 'till the Sun Shines, Nellie."

Gene has the world - he's a successful entrepreneur, beautiful home, beautiful car, everything he could ask for except for one thing. Then he meets Gilda and the two fall in love and marry. They travel the world and live a life of pure happiness until tragedy strikes...