2021-2030

Historical drama, based on a true story, set in Vienna in 1847. It revolves around medical pioneer Ignác Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate Hungarian doctor struggling to find a cure for a mysterious fever that is killing patients—mothers and their babies—in the maternity ward he oversees. His considerable ambition and his research method soon draw the disfavour of his superiors, who order him to stop. They even enlist a young midwife named Emma to secretly spy on him. After a turbulent first encounter, the relationship between Ignác and Emma grows into something more than merely professional. As the fever spreads and with half his peers discrediting him, the tenacious doctor carries on his fight to discover a cure, with Emma by his side. Meanwhile, outside the hospital walls, a social powder keg of political and revolutionary forces is about to explode.Read More »

Adil, mentally 8-year-old, lives with elderly mother Raikhan. Believing pilgrimage to Mecca on foot ensures Raikhan’s heaven entry, Adil travels across Kazakh steppe facing obstacles. Mother-son journey’s hardships depicted.Read More »

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Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets the fragile balance of their relationship.Read More »

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school.Read More »

In the 1980s, the only place in Hong Kong where British law did not apply was the dreaded Kowloon Walled City, an enclave given over to gangs and trafficking of all kinds.
Fleeing the powerful boss of the Triads Mr. Big, the illegal migrant Chan Lok-kwun takes refuge in Kowloon City where he is taken under the protection of Cyclone, leader of the Citadel. With the other outcasts of his clan, they will have to face the invasion of Mr. Big’s gang and protect the refuge that the fortified city has become for them.Read More »

Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she’s placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.Read More »

In 2022, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, sick and tired of the lack of job stability from a company notorious for constant worker turnover, made national headlines after the newly formed Amazon Labor Union voted to unionize. For their absorbing documentary, Brett Story (The Hottest August) and Stephen Maing (Crime + Punishment) follow the day-to-day struggles of the ALU, made up of current and former employees, including charismatic and indefatigable leader Chris Smalls, and capture the events that led to this remarkable—but by no means conclusive—historical moment. The result is an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions and internal conflicts that make any collective action possible—especially when up against a corporate goliath in a post-Reagan era when worker organizations have become political anathema.Read More »

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Based on the classic by Alexandros Papadiamantis, “Murderess” takes place on a remote island in Greece, circa 1900. There, Hadoula, trapped in her own mother’s rejection, struggles to survive the dictates of a patriarchal society.Read More »

Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice.
One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.Read More »