Diodato – Un atto di rivoluzione

What is the purpose of a song? What is the purpose of sharing an emotion? In these chaotic and indifferent times, marked by the anguish of war, uncertainty and the challenges of the near future, exploring our emotions, our vulnerabilities and fears, and trying to share them with someone, is still a revolutionary act that helps us rediscover that sense of humanity we seem to have lost.

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Without education or experience, acting intuitively, local residents in Yakutia are beginning to develop beekeeping. They are the world's northernmost beekeepers, cautiously checking their apiaries all summer long, delighted by the buzzing of bees. By autumn, these people have formed a beekeepers' association and are beginning to extract their first honey.

I'm Not You

Eighteen-year-old Joe is caught in an emotional storm of identity, sexuality, and expectation. This crisis rips the heart out of a world that once seemed simply, now torn between the pressures imposed by a traditional working-class family and labels imposed by friendships groups and individuals. Joe embarks on a journey of discovery and introspection that threatens to destroy a family, a community, and ultimately a life.

Voicemail

The central protagonist of Voicemail is the phone. A conversation happens between voicemail audio from the artist’s late mother and a transcription of his silent responses in the subtitles. The dialogue centers around missed calls, unanswered texts, busy schedules and the concerns of a loving parent.

Charip: Lightning in the River

When gold mining threatens their ancestral territory in the Peruvian Amazon, the Wampís Nation rises to defend land, rivers, and sovereignty, confronting global extractivism with resistance and territorial control.

Lost In The Water

Fragments of recreated archival footage depicts daily life along the Mekong River in the countryside of Cambodia. Cooking, planting rice, children at school and crossing the river is captured on Super 8, yet the fictional time period is unknown. An imagined flash flood submerges everything. “Where is the old house? Do you go through here?” A voice repeats over and over again. All is not lost as water drops ripple open portals of memories that reemerge from the depths of the river.

The French Disaster

Bonne Omelette

An aspiring home cook strives to craft the perfect omelette for his partner in this passionate food film.

Mixed Sauna

Introvert Mikko is anxious that he won’t be able to come out of his shell during the weekend at his relatively new spouse’s cottage. His spouse Hanna is certain that Mikko will make a great first impression on her chosen family, the three friends that they are hosting. When it’s time for the sauna Mikko has not, despite all his attempts, figured out the sauna dress code of this new social bubble. As he steps into the sauna, Mikko realizes he’s the only one wearing swimwear—everybody else is naked. This traumatising event causes mixed emotions which Mikko is unable to shake away. Mikko tries to come out of his shell with his own way but everything ends up going even worse.

A Life in Art: Through the Eye of Dr. Leslie King Hammond

The life and work of Dr. Leslie King Hammond, a renowned art historian, teacher, curator and artist, exposes a side of the art world rarely seen. Through studio visits and museum exhibitions, Dr. Hammond untiringly dedicates her life to assisting artists of color find their way to success through humor, ingenuity and the incredible creativity she and her extended artist family embody. Her insistence on excellence and vision to rise above and transform the struggles she faces becomes contagious.

Atopia

The film explores the state of ‘atopia’ that afflicts Socrates in Plato’s *Symposium*. It is an aesthetic experience of stepping outside oneself, which the work conveys by depicting a musical improvisation by cellist Giovanni Sollima as he plays against a backdrop of abstract images created by directly manipulating 35mm film using acid etching, colour, scratches and abrasions. The secret relationship between the musician and his instrument is thus transposed onto the film medium, producing a synaesthetic perception.

Man and Mattress

A messy loser is forced to battle his outspoken mattress after refusing to clean his room.

The Invisible Shield

When Mexico City locals learn they're being evicted due to tourism pressures, they decide to reverse the American-led gentrification by staging a kidnapping. But when their plans go awry, the whole thing heads rapidly towards comedic disaster.

Amader 7 Kahon

A SSR Cinemas Pvt Ltd production.

Agua, ¿dónde vas?

The video draws inspiration from the evocative imagery of Federico García Lorca’s *Agua, ¿dónde vas?*, in which water becomes a metaphor for existence. From the spring to the sea, it is a circular journey in which the beginning and the end merge. The sea flows back towards its source, symbolising the eternal cycle of life. It is a journey of transformation and discovery, reminding us that nothing truly disappears: everything changes form and continues to live on in the world.

Sweet 16

The story follows a spoiled, wealthy city girl who is counting down the days to a glamorous, supersonic 16th birthday party where she expects a car as a gift. Her world is turned completely upside down when she is unexpectedly tricked and sent to live in a village for her summer holidays. Forced onto a journey of humility, she must use her sassiness to bring redemption to the village and discover her true self.