3am. 1980s Hongjing. In an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.
Two young Bushmen struggle to build their futures after relocation from their ancestral homeland in Botswana. An intimate coming-of-age story that frames personal tensions with deeper questions of what it is like to live at the intersection of tradition and modernity.
Jibril and his best friend, Tawanda, take a trip to the flea market to buy a fake gold chain in this charming SXSW award-winner.
Black holes, nuns and Nicholas Cage all feature in this round-up of work from our previously featured filmmakers at this year's SXSW
A short, Oscar-nominated animation that depicts a father-and-son relationship through the art of packing a suitcase.
In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park—a home for woolly mammoths resurrected by modern genetics that could help defuse a carbon time bomb and slow down global warming.
A dark satire on aging millennials presents a designer struggling with the pressure she puts on herself as a creative and a woman. An absurdist tale of performance and the quest for recognition, her obsession will lead her to a dark place she never saw coming
A Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. After three months submerged underwater in a Russian submarine, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself.
An unflinching look into the lives of two undiagnosed special needs kids and their parents as they grow older with no answers in sight.
An emotional, wordless 3min short. On the outskirts of Cairo, lies an entire suburb made out of trash called Garbage City. 'Love, Dad,' explores the grueling work and persistence one father endures to put his daughter through school.
