A woman seeks answers after her husband is forcibly disappeared in I’m Still Here. It is the early 1970s and Brazil is under a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) lives in a beachside house in Rio De Janeiro with her former congressman husband Rubens (Selton Mello) and their five children. Despite the ongoing dictatorship,…
A filmmaker couple travel to the island where Ingmar Bergman lived and made his films in Bergman Island. Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth) are a couple, who travel to the Baltic island of Fårö, where Ingmar Bergman lived and made his most well-known films. Both Chris and Tony are filmmakers, with the latter…
Female members of an evangelist Christian church violently try to convert other women to their ways in Medusa. Mari (Mariana Oliveira) and her best friend Michele (Lara Tremouroux) are members of an evangelist Christian temple in Brazil, who sing as part of “Treasures of the Lord” choir, while at night don white masks and stalk sinful…
A young man with the ability to talk to cars helps with the creation of a new sentient fleet in King Car. Since he was a kid, Uno (Luciano Pedro Jr.) has had the ability to talk to cars, though he decided to suppress this gift after an accident resulting in the death of his mother….
A skull-shaped mask unearthed in the Amazon harbours a vengeful spirit in Skull: The Mask. At an archaeological dig in the Amazon, Galvani Volta (Guta Ruiz) acquires a skull mask, a Pre-Columbian artifact, which reportedly contains the spirit of Anhangá, the executioner of the god Tahawantinsupay. The mask is wanted by shady Sao Paulo museum curator…
The population of a small Brazillian village has to deal with a group of armed mercenaries in Bacurau. Teresa (Bárbara Colen) returns home to Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, to mourn the death of her grandmother and the town matriarch Carmelita. In the days following the funeral, the members of the village…
An astronaut travels to the farthest reaches of the solar system to locate his long-lost father in Ad Astra. In the near future, humanity has set up colonies on the moon and Mars and have sent out missions to find signs of intelligent life in space. Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is an astronaut following…
The origins and modern reemergence of the process of deep brain stimulation is examined in Hunting for Hedonia. In the 1950s, Dr. Robert Galbraith Heath performed experiments in neuromodulation, trying to seek out the source of pleasure in the brain, also known as hedonia. However, Heath’s methods were shunned by the medical community and he…
The intergalactic hunter combats a misfit group of soldiers in The Predator. While on mission, sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) encounters a Predator, which crash lands in the area and kills off his entire unit. Taken into custody, Quinn is placed in a prison bus with fellow “loonies” Nebraska Williams (Trevante Rhodes), Coyle (Keegan-Michael Key), Baxley (Thomas Jane), Lynch (Alfie Allen),…
A disgraced soccer star decides to adopt a refugee in Diamantino. Diamantino Matamouros (Carloto Cotta) is the star soccer player for Portugal, whose prowess comes from his ability to see nothing but pink clouds and fluffy puppies on the pitch. However, when he becomes aware of the refugee crisis, Diamantino is thrown off his game and…
