Directed by Lawrence Lek • 2022 • United Kingdom, South Korea
In the abandoned smart city of SimBeijing, a self-driving police car confronts their existential troubles with their built-in AI therapist in this Sinofuturist exploration of identity, surveillance, and empathy.
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Yaangna Plays Itself
Directed by Adam Piron • 2022 • United States
YAANGNA PLAYS ITSELF is an ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from.
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All the Days of May
Directed by Miryam Charles • 2023 • Canada
Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain MbayeFollowing the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.
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Exterior Turbulence
Directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce • 2023 • United States
A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture is recalled in fragments in this collage of seizure dreams, horses, long-distance conversations from bed, and loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras’s BAXTER, VERA BAXTER.