The Strangers’ Case

In Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare wrote a speech in which More makes a passionate defence for refugees, pleading for empathy from his fellow countrymen and culminating in a poignant description of the plight of refugees – “The Strangers’ Case” –…

Three Infallible Rules

Fourteen year-old Bruno is in a state of panic: he finds out his love for Flavia is requited, but has no idea how to start a relationship. He needs someone to teach him the ropes, and it just so happens…

Aftergames

In the summer of 2018, Kári, driven by a death wish he cannot fulfill himself, insists that Mæja is the only one who can release him from life’s torment and thus correct a ‘cosmic imbalance’ she allegedly caused a decade…

Hwangtae

Amid the fierce winds that sweep through Jinburyeong year-round, the Hwangtae drying field rests quietly in Yongdaeri village, Gangwon Province. (Hwangtae is pollack, transformed by the winter’s cold embrace, frozen and thawed into a dried state). Underneath the racks, they…

Lost Silverfish of Berlin

In a city defined by its rich history and ongoing housing challenges, filmmaker Rory Ryder embarks on a journey that takes an unexpected turn. While investigating Berlin’s deepening housing crisis and the government’s inadequate responses, Rory stumbles upon a mysterious,…

Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Hunt for the Oldest DNA tells the story of a maverick gene hunter, whose single-minded pursuit of an improbable scientific vision would tease and torment him before ending with a stunning triumph: a lost world recovered from a spoonful of…

My Lost Russian Mother

An intimate tale of secrets and lies, family and ethnicity and one young man’s odyssey from America to Russia, searching for his birth mother. Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary follows US citizen Gabe, trying to trace…

An Arctic Journey

Svalbard is a wild and remote place, with unpredictable weather conditions, making it one of the most challenging places on Earth for freeride skiing. Despite all this, the Ubac Images team decided to step it up: first by travelling with…

Fishy Fish Fish

Fishy Fish Fish is a dark comedy animated short film loosely based on the five stages of grief where Uno deals with the loss of his own life. Giving a spin to the original greek myth of charon, Fishy Fish…

Likes

In 2010 Northwestern China, Chunxiao Zhao (赵春筱) as the deputy class president was selected to perform at a talent show in their middle school. Chunxiao is a straight-A student at school but she fantasizes herself being an overly-sexualized and objectified…

XXXL

It is a story about a chubby man living in a world dominated by slender figures. He is a jobless person rejected at every turn. When he jumps into a collapsing pit to rescue passengers in a stranded vehicle, he…

Love Bubbles

Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy. It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together – an amusing relationship drama.

Fire Beneath Her

A new fire season crackles to life in Kalimantan as 29-year-old Emmanuela Shinta monitors the air quality and distributes face masks to thousands of villagers expecting the worst. But she knows it’s not enough. Each year, the region is prone…

Sandflight

The surf tosses sand on the beach, the wind blows it inland. Nothing remains as it is, or where it was. Everything is in motion: the 200-million-year-old sand, the dunes, the sea, and the countless creatures that make their home…

Fury IV

Fury is a film series showcasing the power and beauty of Mother Nature. Specifically focusing on storms, this film showcases some of the most powerful, yet majestic scenes that take over the plains of The United States in the spring…