Keem's internal battle leads us through fragments of memory and temptation as he navigates the depths of The Melodic Blue.
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Baby Keem
Amandla Stenberg
Jade
Shakira Ja'nai Paye
River
Francis Lovehall
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Séréna Sy
Alexa Blue
Video letter directed by Anne-Marie Faux on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Côté Court Short Film Festival.
A psychological drama for the media-saturated age. In a world of viral videos, memes, and fake news, where cats ride skateboards and people get struck by lightning, one man erodes the boundary between online and real.
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.
Leah, a lonely little girl going through a difficult time exchanges magical letters with Felicity, a friend from a happier world.
Roman remembers his moments with Andres. He has daydreams of their past together. Andres disappeared. Roman is desperate for an answer.
'Sacrifice' follows the love story between James Hunter and Blake Robinson as they begin a new phase in their life together. Forces out of their control tear them apart but to what extent and consequence? How much will they sacrifice? A traditional military love story from a perspective which has not yet been seen before.
"On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards." Julia Kristeva.
A young man roams the streets of Caracas.
After a romantic night, even the simple things like cooking breakfast can highlight impending difficulties.
Against a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.
A young woman meets a man in a seedy hotel for a mysterious assignation in this unsettling narrative.
The story of Amy and Jack, two children from Gateshead struggling to become friends against the odds.
Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he becomes a statue.
Spring 2015. The warm spring sunlight and lush flowers resemble a youth full of vitality. The documentary director captured the youth's 'Mr. Doyoung (22)' on camera. On the highway bus returning to school from hometown, Doyoung accidentally meets his first love, Yonghwa, whom he does not want to see in 10 years. One by one, the memories she doesn't want to recall come back to life. She struggles not to let him know who she is, but it's not as easy as her heart. Will Doyoung be able to overcome this difficult situation well?
Omri and Amit are a gay couple in an open relationship who live together in Jaffa. On the day between Israeli memorial day and the evening of the Israeli independence day, they will confront their relationship status.
Tom, a young architect from Tel Aviv, accepts his partner Nimrod's offer of a threesome with Or. The meeting with Or changes the couple's relationship.
A hook-up between two young men - they make a connection, but it quickly becomes apparent they're looking for different things.
During a hike, Romy invents a game to silence Sacha, her chatty little sister, by asking her to pretend to be a mountain chamois. Romy has fun pushing her further and further into her role, but Sacha quickly gets too caught up in the game...
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction, depression and self-injury. In a creative blend of artistic fantasy balanced with harsh reality, the movie follows Renee on her courageous journey towards recovery.
A young alcoholic ambient musician locks himself in his apartment on a dangerous seven day bender as he attempts to finish his upcoming album.
Street dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
Aspiring small-town musician Chito is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music... and ultimately gets caught in a game more dangerous than anticipated.
The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
All Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records. Against insurmountable odds, Tupac rose to become a cultural icon whose career and persona both continue to grow long after his passing.
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.
In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a postapocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents.
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
