In LOSER, director Mali Chen transforms abandonment into song. Set in a decaying city, the music video begins with a discarded inflatable doll awakening in a trash bin. Soon, it is gathered into a rickety shopping cart alongside broken toys, unwanted objects, and forgotten things. As the cart travels through alleys and neglected streets, the discarded begin to sing together, forming a surreal chorus of failure, shame, rejection, and unexpected resilience. Based on “LOSER,” a

There are artists whose voices travel the world, yet whose stories remain strangely unknown in the places where they began. Aldo Baldin – A Life for Music, directed by Yves Goulart, tells the extraordinary story of Aldo Baldin, the Brazilian lyric tenor born in Urussanga, Santa Catarina, who rose from a small town in southern Brazil to become one of the most acclaimed singers of his generation. Through rare archival footage, personal letters, photographs, recordings, and inte

Few science-fiction films ask a question as intimate—and as unsettling—as The End Was Just The Beginning. While many dystopian stories focus on survival after catastrophe, Portuguese filmmaker António Aleixo turns his attention toward a more personal dilemma: what does it mean to bring a child into a world that feels increasingly uncertain? The film follows Catarina, a woman who discovers she is pregnant and suddenly finds herself confronting not only the responsibilities of

When audiences think of media revolutions, they often focus on the public consequences—the headlines, the elections, the cultural shifts. Rarely do they consider the private boardroom conversations that precede them. In NNC, Filipino filmmaker Miguel Regal takes viewers behind closed doors to explore precisely those moments: the difficult decisions, conflicting principles, and corporate struggles that can ultimately influence the trajectory of an entire society. Set over the

For nearly a century, the isolated community of Short Creek—straddling the border of Utah and Arizona—has existed under the shadow of prophecy, polygamy, and control. In Prophet Town , filmmaker Dan Howlett turns his lens toward what he describes as the “full and final chapter” of the story surrounding Warren Jeffs , the disgraced leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), whose reign left thousands psychologically scarred. But rather th

In Hu Li Jing: The Fox Spirit , filmmaker and visual artist Alena Saveleva enters the realm of myth, animism, and transformation. Set in a distant, timeless forest, the film follows Hu Li Jing, a fox spirit who, weary of her own immortality, undertakes a ritual of abstinence—refusing to hunt for men’s hearts for one thousand days—in an attempt to rediscover her femininity and her place between worlds. But when she steps peacefully into the human world, she is met not with un