The Encounter

The Marfa Tapes Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall offer a glimpse inside the creative process of the making of their new album in this documentary featuring live performances set against the West Texas backdrop, candid interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage captured during the five-day album recording sessions in November 2020.

Applying Pressure: The O... J. Cole shares his struggles with overcoming creative limitations between album releases.

P.C. Josser The fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem himself by breaking up a ring of crooks who have been fixing horse-races by doping up the horses.

Electing a Village Chief With the opening up of the economy, grassroots democracy has come. But since the land is owned by the state, the local government actually has absolute control. The so-called democratically elected village chief quickly learns that his role is to cooperate with the government in using land to develop the economy. Power-to-money transactions are open secrets. Due to the uneven economic development in the villages, each has a different story, but the use of land for profit is a constant theme. The filming location is a rural village in the outside Beijing. Less of focus is how villages elect than the mutation after. Faced with huge land assets and overseeing relationships between land, power, economics, social systems, how does a hard-working, upright peasant conduct himself? This film documents the pain: the experience of soul sublimation and degeneration. We see 'birth defects' in this "democracy" — one without checks and balances, grafted onto autocracy.

Die Meistersinger von Nr... Wagner's communal drama on film.

Tehrangeles Nima, a teenage Iranian-American boy living in the suburbs of Los Angeles, gains an appreciation for his heritage and learns the difference between friends and "friends" on the day of his 17th birthday party that his Persian family throws for him.

Marcy y Miguelo A young woman goes to the beach where she finds a handsome fisherman that catches her attention

A certain uneasiness A man eats breakfast during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holy Light The melody of the hymn echoes in the old streets and alleys of the city. This is strange in a country that regards religion as a spiritual opium. The small, messy street was full of old people, and they began to pray with the sound of the room on the street. On the roof, a simple cross gleamed in the sun. During the Cultural Revolution, Christianity was completely eradicated. In China's political environment, Christianity has always been regarded as an extremely reactionary and evil thing, and openly believing in God would bring prison sentences. After the reform and opening up, Christianity also resumed activities. Although the Three-Self Church under official control is orthodox, house churches that are not under official control have also emerged in various cities. This film documents the activities of a house church in Nanjing.

Marcy en la playa Portrait of a young woman having fun at the beach