A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer — ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer.

In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake Saddam Hussein's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.

Lana Daher’s archival essay film is a personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory that spans 70 years of film, television, home movies and photography. 

A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

Intimate and fragmented moments unfold in a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina. As histories of these institutions are uncovered, dedicated workers commit both day and night to caring for the remaining enclosed animals, fostering a mutual bond that transcends imagined boundaries between human and animal.

Isiah Medina's third feature marks another key evolution in his work, with performance and character coming into greater focus, as he continues to develop his cinema-of-thought through the form of a philosophical hangout movie.

Isiah Medina strikingly reimagines the gangster picture in this profound and ironic examination of both depiction, endorsement, and the morality of making and consuming cinema.