The Click Beetle

Undone After cutting all their hair off and getting caught gender bending, Amelia must navigate a day at school. Seeking for support they eventually find solace in their friends. Sundance Ignite 2021

A Diary Between Friends When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.

Dainu kamermistrija "Es,... An experimental video concert using split-screen technology – a new audiovisual work by Gundega Šmite and director Aleksandr Okonov. Subtle modernism in music, Latvian folk song lyrics, the classical-ethnic music of the Arcandela ensemble, and collage-style video direction, with material filmed during the concert recording with 17 video cameras, creating the impression of a live performance.

Tree Opera The film documents the production of Anna Ķirse’s contemporary opera in the forests of Finland.

Intimate Desire Female modeling and lesbian interest

Suspension Prima The film is set in an isolated metalworking factory, where a metallurgist is doing only one job – endlessly casting himself from tin, to create the ideal cast from the same material he is made of. Metallurgist has an impulsive need to do this job because he is suffering from workaholism and the constant thoughts of not being perfect. The casting process happens over and over again, until one day a mouse shows up at the factory and distracts the metallurgist from his work which puts him at a halt. Can a moment of catching his breath become a part of his work process?

Deviate Curiosity leads to success, success leads to innovation, the new creates resistance. Someone suffers.

The Song of Treasure Mou... Yang Min, a county party committee secretary, goes against superstition and leads a prospecting team to Baoshan to look for iron ore.

Personals A socially anxious teen responds to a Craigslist ad for a glory hole. He strikes an unexpected connection with the figure behind the sheet. Feeling his anonymity threatened, the figure tries to course-correct. The teen resists until the figure snaps and abruptly ends the encounter. Feeling a strange connection to this faceless man, the teen returns. He pushes the figure to embrace what they both fear most and be vulnerable. The two men finally let their guards down; they share a moment of true intimacy.

Holding Positions One location, many people and different destinations - but still, they all find themselves in the same situation. They are waiting.