Isabella Rossellini reflects on how all mothers cannot help being maternal. She touches on the various maternal instincts—some heart-warming, some disturbing—of the animals she explores throughout Mammas.
Isabella Rossellini examines the maternal instincts of the piping plover. The piping plover mamma is an amazing actress, who pretends to be injured to save her children.
Isabella Rossellini demonstrates the maternal instincts of cichlid fish. The mammas store their eggs in their mouths, so that’s where cichlid fathers have to fertilize them!
Dunnocks practice polyandry, where one female has multiple partners. Isabella Rossellini uncovers how the mamma dunnock manages her roster of fathers.
Being a mamma requires sacrifice, especially for the Diaea ergandros. Isabella Rossellini explores how the spider lets herself be devoured by her babies.
Isabella Rossellini examines the maternal instincts of the wasp. Wasp mammas provide nourishment to their babies by paralyzing caterpillars and burying them alive with their wasp eggs.
On trial for eating her tenth baby, Isabella Rossellini pleads that if she were a hamster, this would be considered natural. Rossellini takes a close look at the infanticidal maternal instincts of the hamster.
A nun in Uganda is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village.
6.8
Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.
7
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
7.6
In rural Punjab, a schoolboy’s impotence leads to accusations of being gay, triggering relentless bullying. Amid this torment and dark family revelations, he battles inner demons that push him further on the edge. When pressured into an arranged marriage, he’s forced to make a heartbreaking choice.
6.2
A suicidal teen develops a candid rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages and possessions quickly expands the boundaries of their relationship and alters their inner chemistry.
5.6
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.
A man appears in a woman’s bedroom, and as they embrace, their bodies transform—sprouting extra lips and tongues to heighten pleasure. Their forms, perspectives, and surroundings continue to shift fluidly as they embark on a hallucinatory, cosmic journey of desire.
5.9
1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds himself stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany awaiting a barge that will take him to Hollywood. A summer romance kicks off when he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen - it's just too bad there are vampires around.
6.2
An aimless girl in her final week of college goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her hometown, Philadelphia, and ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.
6.5
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
5.4
Bassley, a Nigerian footballer living in Vietnam, has been unable to make a living since he broke his leg. He and four middle-aged women he sometimes works for decide to escape the disappointment of their daily lives. They go to an old house where together they create a special world for themselves. But this intimate utopia cannot last forever.
4.5
Noelle ja Addie ovat juuri löytäneet täydellisen asunnon: hyvä sijainti Manhattanilla ja kohtuullinen vuokra. Kaikki kuitenkin muuttuu, kun ventovieras koputtaa oveen ja tytöt saavat tietää, että asunto on kuulunut seksuaalirikolliselle Jeffrey Epsteinille, joka on käyttänyt sitä surullisen kuuluisiin puuhiinsa. The Scary of Sixty-First on kekseliäs kauhuelokuva, jonka tyyli heijastelee 70-lukua mutta joka on vahvasti ankkuroitu nykyaikaan.
7.1
Hiljainen mutta taitava kokki Cookie matkaa Oregonista länteen karvaisten turkismetsästäjien seurassa. Hän eroaa ryhmästä tavattuaan kiinalaisen siirtolaisen King-Lun, joka niin ikään etsii onneaan. Yhdessä he perustavat pienen mutta menestyvän yrityksen alueen ensimmäisen ja ainoan lehmän avulla.
6.4
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
6.5
A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought.
