Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Born in East Berlin as Hansel Schmidt, Hedwig undergoes a botched sex-change operation in order to marry an American soldier and escape to the West.
Born in East Berlin as Hansel Schmidt, Hedwig undergoes a botched sex-change operation in order to marry an American soldier and escape to the West.
Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Finland’s accession to NATO, three Russian women living in Finland develop radically different attitudes toward Putin’s Russia and their own identity. While one completely rejects her Russian roots, the others continue to hold on to them.
On December 3rd, 2024, in Seoul, the President declares martial law in an attempt to overcome a political crisis. As troops advance toward the National Assembly, citizens rush to block them while lawmakers break through police barricades to vote against the decree.
Four siblings on the verge of adulthood try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them.
Jamuna and her sister live in Kathmandu. They embark on an ascent into the mountains to take part in the harvest of yarsagumba, a rare creature, half-fungus, half-insect, whose value now exceeds that of gold.
Daphne, a teenage judo athlete from a remote Greek island, is ready to spread her wings and follow Sensei Yuri to the big city and ultimately to the next Olympic Games.
Numbi, a little village hidden deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies nonetheless at the heart of our world. Here, with their bare hands, miners dig the coltan which will find its way – legally or otherwise – to our industrialized world.
Cristi, a young police detective in a small Romanian town, refuses to arrest a teenager caught smoking marijuana, unwilling to destroy the boy’s future over a minor offense that may soon become legal. His superiors, however, demand that the law be enforced to the letter.
Calcutta, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create her new order in response to the call she has received from God.
Viv, a Chinese artist wannabe, got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and accidentally ventured into the vibrant alternative culture scene. To someone who was raised to follow “the standard”, everything seems so exciting.