Scary movies

5 films

  • 1489

    dir. Shoghakat Vardanyan
    dok2023

    The film title is the number used to mark the Armenian soldier lost in action who fought against Azeris in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. While the family is trying to find the student’s body, his sister is recording the search and accompanying emotions on her smartphone.

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  • Abraham (Ebrahim)

    dir. Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini
    fab2023

    A short, dramatic conversation. A man is trying to elicit some information from a clearly scared woman. Where is she? In a cave. With a fire burning at its entrance. How did she get there? And, first and foremost, what happened to Abraham? The teenage boy went missing. He is not at home. There are only burnt women’s clothes.

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  • Inheritance

    dir. Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing
    dok2024

    For a number of years the authors of the film accompanied a family from the Appalachians, an exploited region affected by the opioid crisis. In an insightful and empathetic way, they filmed the situation of the youngest generation burdened with poverty and the omnipresence of addictive substances from the very start. Among them, there is Curtis, a resolute boy ready to break out of the vicious circle sucking up his loved ones.

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  • Nutcracker Girl (Dziewczynka do orzechów)

    dir. Michalina Musialik
    anim2023

    Christmas is the magic time when snow falls, the family gets together and toys become alive. On this special evening, a little girl can see her doll embark on a great adventure. The magic is gone the moment a wooden soldier puts his hand under the doll’s dress. A story about growing up and discovering carnality to the tune of Tchaikovsky’s ballet.

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  • The Mandala (Mandala)

    dir. Mikołaj Janik
    fab2023

    In Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, a mandala is a mystical symbol of the universe. A wheel joins harmoniously with a square. In the same way, the present and the past, reality and a dream, are enlaced in the world of Łucja, a single mother. Harmony is becoming replaced by everyday mundane rehabilitation and a nightmare as if from another dimension.

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