Sergeant Bulut dutifully maintains a solitary guard atop a remote watchtower. Night after night, Bulut scans the horizon, awaiting an enemy that never materializes—until the sudden appearance of strange lights disrupts his routine.
6.2
A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.
A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance. But when the rehearsals start, Jay escapes, embarking on a poetic and philosophical journey through Paris.
6.9
An anonymous narrator talks through the various chapters of his life as a spy and a gay man in late 20th-century Britain. His vivid stories of intimacy and surveillance play out over shots of the luscious countryside, busy Central London streets, and nighttime cruising zones.
Dunnocks practice polyandry, where one female has multiple partners. Isabella Rossellini uncovers how the mamma dunnock manages her roster of fathers.
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.
Being an orphaned oil beetle larva isn’t so tragic. Isabella Rossellini explains that the larvae simply must trick male bees into thinking they are sexy female bees.
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 piping plover. The piping plover mamma is an amazing actress, who pretends to be injured to save her children.
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 wasp. Wasp mammas provide nourishment to their babies by paralyzing caterpillars and burying them alive with their wasp eggs.
Dressed as a toad, the Pipa pipa, Isabella Rossellini is seduced by a male toad. Now a toad mamma, she won’t carry one big baby in her belly, but many babies on her back.
Dressed as a mamma cuckoo, Isabella Rossellini is leading a busy life. So, she slips her eggs into the nests of other birds to have those mammas feed the cuckoo babies.
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!
6.2
A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
6.4
When her boyfriend returns to Ukraine to care for his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota must navigate the precarious anxiety of holding onto the past and forging her future in the midst of her South Brooklyn universe.
6.4
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “Fuck it.”
6.5
In Philadelphia for the weekend, Tessa and Ben, a couple on the rocks, rent a room in the apartment of Adam, a reclusive stranger who quickly becomes an unwilling voyeur to the most private parts of the couple’s life. Tensions rise as the three enter an intimate battle to gain and reclaim territory.
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In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
At a Halloween carnival, a young father steals a magician’s rabbit to impress his ten-year-old son. The thrill of the petty theft quickly dissolves when the young boy is tasked with getting himself, his father, and his new pet home safe.
A haunted Ida travels to Jordan, to the liminal site of her partner’s disappearance in an attempt to feel his presence one last time and to say goodbye.
