Media’s Influence on the Mind (2022)

Prolonged Failure

Two film students desperately try to create a documentary for their final project whilst putting in as little effort as possible.

(Untitled) Noir Film

A struggling writer searches the streets for inspiration as he works on a new screenplay, as his boss haggles him for new ideas.

Amaran

Una vera e eroica storia del maggiore Mukund Varadarajan, un ufficiale dell'esercito indiano che ha dimostrato uno straordinario coraggio durante una missione antiterrorismo nel distretto di Shopian in Kashmir. Il film cattura il suo coraggio nel proteggere la sua nazione e la devozione della moglie Indhu Rebecaa Varghese.

Start Me Up

A grandfather decides to launch a childcare business alongside a bitter divorcee who is also an aging game show icon trying to make a comeback.

Topolino e lo scienziato pazzo

A dark and stormy night. Pluto is spirited away to the spooky lair of an evil genius for a mad transplant scheme to put his head on the body of a chicken. Mickey gives chase, but find himself threatened severely by the doctor's castle and its denizens.

Joy in Moscow

Pretty Joy and her friend come to Moscow to shoot a commercial. A taxi driver, who recruits girls for an underground organization run by a distant descendant of Rasputin, suggests they visit the Rasputin Museum. During the tour, the girls are hypnotized by the evil character, who hypnotizes his victims before using their charms to seduce the rich tourists.

Shootball

Manuel Barbero, father of a sexual abuse victim, and Joaquin Benitez, the pederast who abuse the son of Manuel and 20 more children, are the main characters of this documentary. The director of the film approaches these key figures of this story with a work of journalistic investigation. For the first time, a pederast speaks and confesses with his face uncovered in a documentary.

Barnali

A man mistakenly invites a family, whose girl was (and is still) betrothed to the groom. It was he who set up the cousin's alliance, would the girl forgive him, whom he had fallen in love? How to prevent her from attending the marriage?

Vivants

Gabrielle has just joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find her place among an experienced team of special correspondents. In the heat of the action, she will learn the language and the code of these reporters, who are always passionate, often funny, and sometimes scarred by life and their profession. And then there’s Vincent, the program’s editor-in-chief, who she can’t help challenging...

Spider House

Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders in a one-off documentary revealing the secret life of the spider in the home.

La Regina di Saba

Temendo un attacco da parte del regno di Saba, re Salomone manda il figlio Roboam a Saba, sotto mentite spoglie. Questi salva la vita alla figlia del re e s'innamora subito di lei. Alla morte del re la ragazza sale al trono, ma con una clausola: dovrà restare vergine finché il Dio Atar Samani non avrà deciso per lei chi dovrà sposare.

Of Living Without Illusion

Suburban summer heat. Merit, Eva, Lion, Rose and David cautiously wind around their conflicted relationships. They talk, but their words don’t meet. They play theatre while rehearsing their lives. The garden needs watering. Fears of the future and traces of violence relentlessly press into the present. A narrative of the beauty and gravity that arise from discovering our individual truths.

Latin for All

Delphine, a disillusioned humanities teacher, makes an agreement with her students : they leave her in peace, as they get A+ grades. But these excellent results turn into a nightmare when the class is qualified for the Latin World Championships, in Naples.

T.I.M.

La scienziata di protesi Abi e il marito adultero Paul si adattano alla vita fuori città mentre Abi inizia a lavorare per la società high-tech Integrate, sviluppando un'intelligenza artificiale umanoide - T.I.M.

Public Speaking

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.

Ada Kaleh

This precisely calibrated domestic diorama alights upon the imagined futures of a group of anonymous young adults. In Helena Wittmann’s warmly rendered feat of formalist filmmaking, questions of time and the realities of space convene in languid interior pans, incremental shifts in light, and the private reflections of her subjects.

Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara

Once known for his intellectual prowess, a retired professor (Anupam Kher) begins experiencing memory gaps and periods of forgetfulness. But while he tries to laugh it off, it soon becomes clear that the symptoms are a sign of a more serious illness, prompting his grown daughter (Urmila Matondkar) to move in as his caretaker. Meanwhile, as his mind regresses, he recalls a traumatic childhood memory involving the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Frontier

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.

Pigs!

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Documentary sans commentary featuring only natural sounds of pigs feeding, scratching, fighting, snorting, digging, sleeping. Named Best Educational Film of 1967.