A woman receives a grave request from her cancer-diagnosed friend in The Room Next Door. Ingrid (Julianne Moore) is an autofiction novelist, who discovers that her old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) has been diagnosed with Stage 3 cervical cancer. The two were close in their youth when they worked at the same magazine, but grew […]
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An English teacher in Buenos Aires adopts a rescued penguin in The Penguin Lessons. In the year 1976, Tom Michel (Steve Coogan) arrives at Buenos Aires to begin a position at an English Boarding School. Despite the fact that Argentina is in the midst of a coup d’état, it is the policy of the headmaster
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A grieving man takes an experimental drug, which brings his dead girlfriend back to life through lucid dreams in Daniela Forever. Nick (Henry Golding) is a British DJ living in Madrid, who is in a depressed funk after his Italian girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò) is killed in a hit-and-run. Nick’s therapist Victoria (Nathalie Poza) refers
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A light is shone on United States Gun Culture using footage from thousands of YouTube videos in From My Cold Dead Hands. Framed by a video listing the reasons for being a gun owner, Spanish documentarian Javier Horcajada Fontecha compiles a YouTube mash-up about gun-toting Americans. This includes the best places to keep a gun,
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Three friends have a transhumanist experience while on summer vacation in Infinite Summer. Mia (Teele Kaljuvee-O’Brock) is a young Estonian woman, who goes on summer vacation with her childhood friend Grete (Johanna-Aurelia Rosin), who has returned home after studying in London, bringing along her Canadian friend Sarah (Hannah Gross). While using an “Extreme Dating” app,
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A non-believing medium reluctantly helps a young girl develop her gift in The Chapel. Every Halloween, a Spanish village unseals its central chapel to commemorate a girl named Usoa taken by Plague Doctors in the middle of the Black Death. Emma (Maia Zaitegi) is a young girl, who has been working with local medium Ivana
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A budding friendship develops between a dog and a robot in 1980s New York City in Robot Dreams. Living an isolated existence in his New York City apartment, Dog orders for himself an Amica 2000 robot. Dog and Robot become fast friends, exploring the city to the sounds of Earth, Wind, & Fire’s “September.” However,
The dark side of digital advertising is exposed in The Click Trap. Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have effectively turned themselves into advertising companies, by tracking users around the web and sharing relevant ads. However, there is a dark side to this digital advertising model, as advertisers inadvertently find themselves funding misinformation or
Director Patricia Franquesa documents her own experience of being blackmailed over stolen private photos in My Sextortion Diary. While on a business trip in May 2019, Pati’s laptop was stolen while she had lunch with her ex during a business trip to Madrid. Two months later, she discovers that the laptop was hacked and that
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Two former lovers apart for 25 years reunite under unfortunate circumstances in Strange Way of Life. Silva (Pedro Pascal) rides from his ranch to the town of Bitter Creek, where he is reunited with Sheriff Jake (Ethan Hawke). The two haven’t seen each other for 25 years, since they were young gunslingers and secret lovers
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