On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confession to the Kamakura hospital staff treating him: “I am Satoshi Kirishima.” On January 29th, he died. For 49 years, Kirishima was a fugitive pursued by the police for his involvement with the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front’s bombing campaign that terrified Tokyo in the 70s. While others from the group were caught and sentenced to death, Kirishima remained on the run and off the radar by working as a day-labourer and living a solitary life amongst neighbours who affectionately dubbed him “Ucchan,” a quiet guy known to like a beer and rock music.
2025-07-04 00.0
Alberto is a Portuguese environmental engineer who decided to change his life. He travels to a West African metropolis (an imaginary and futuristic city that has both Guinea-Bissau and Luanda), where he will work as an engineer in the construction of a road between the jungle and the desert. Moved by the hostility of the elements, the oppressive heat and the loneliness, Alberto meets Ema and Ben. Like him, these two locals are driven by an impulse to escape and overcome their origins. The bond between the three becomes for Alberto the only guarantee of mental health amidst a process of brutalization and widespread barbarism that spreads among his fellow expatriates, from the construction site to the NGO offices.
2025-07-09 00.0
Hannah Arendt was one of the most fearless writers of the 20th century, and her report of the Adolf Eichmann trial coined the phrase, “the banality of evil.” The German American scholar transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into insights about the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism.
2025-06-27 00.0
After returning from the resort vacation, Marcy, a mother and live streamer, experienced bizarre symptoms, and her accompanying staff member, Zhao, inexplicably passed away. A friend of Ah Xu, Tianren, uploaded the eerie footage captured by Zhao before his death, garnering significant online traffic. In a state of panic and rebellion, Ah Xu, either to uncover the truth or for the sake of false popularity, concealed this from her family and begged her sister to keep it a secret. She decided to join forces with Tianren to call upon internet friends to investigate the vacation resort.
2024-07-19 00.0
This is a coming-of-age story set in a closed-off rural area in the Heisei era, depicting the summer spent by Mishima Futoshi, who has just realized his identity, and the boys around him. Mishima, who was bullied by his classmate Kirino Makoto, made it a daily habit to secretly apply lipstick and wear women's clothes. One day, he witnesses Kirino trying to apply lipstick to his lips that he had lost.
2025-06-27 00.0
As a child, on the eve of March 8, Vitya was hit on the head by a swing and miraculously survived. Since then, three of his friends celebrate this date every year as their friend's second birthday. But this time, the fun goes too far. The guys wives and girlfriends will have to save them from problems and the consequences of a protracted party.
2025-06-26 00.0
Everyone has dreams. For high schoolers Kash, Hadley, and Riley, their dream is to travel. To explore the world after they graduate high school. As big as the dream is, there are things in the way of that. Hoping to overcome these obstacles, this trio of teenagers has to navigate their senior year of high school, home lives, relationships, and the good old figuring out what they want to do with their lives. Will that get in the way of their dream?
2025-07-05 00.0
Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he knew he was put on earth to do: sing. Making his mark first as a gospel singer, Bean got the break of his life when Motown tapped him in 1977 to record the disco song “I Was Born This Way,” which quickly became the first gay anthem at a time when it was uncommon to be out and proud. When the AIDS crisis hit, however, Bean soon found himself drawn to a different calling: compassionate activism. Instead of pursuing the momentum of his promising music career, he founded the Minority AIDS Project and the Unity Fellowship Church — the first LGBTQ+ church for people of color.
2025-06-05 00.0
Slick Rick's "Victory" is a thrilling visual album that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Set in the heart of London, this gripping 25-minute film stars Idris Elba and Nas, bringing a cinematic twist to Slick Rick’s iconic storytelling. With stunning visuals and an intense, suspenseful plot, Victory blends rap and film in a way you’ve never seen before.
2025-06-06 00.0
Stepping out as the first Pyramid Stage headliners of Glastonbury 2025 are BRIT Award-winning, chart-topping band The 1975. Performing for the fourth time at Worthy Farm, with their last appearance being on the Other Stage in 2016, this is arguably a milestone moment for the four-piece from Wilmslow, Cheshire, as they make their debut at the top of the bill on the Pyramid Stage.
2025-06-27 00.0
A group of college students sets out for a photoshoot at an abandoned apartment, but their project quickly turns into a waking nightmare. As eerie events unfold, they find themselves trapped in a terrifying time loop, forced to relive their own gruesome deaths. Ilyana, a final-year fashion design student, senses something unsettling upon arrival. Her curiosity leads her to an ancient artifact hidden within the decaying building. Soon after, two of her friends flee without explanation, while the remaining three desperately search for a way to break free from the relentless cycle. The deeper they dig, the more they realize the apartment holds a horrifying secret.. one that refuses to let them go.
2025-07-03 00.0