Movies: Slow cinema

Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for many reasons to many different people, however for Lola it symbolises a way out. In a world that is ofte...

A woman gets lost in the woods....

Itamar and Thomas share a bed, walls, an apartment and electricity bills. Thomas commands, manages, and criticizes; Itamar is silent and listens. Between the apartment walls, frustration and loneliness unfold....

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Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in the morning the police arrive to arrest him, accusing the man of having murdered the old banker who'd ...

A group of young people grapple with identity, guilt and mourning after learning of a close friend's death....

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist....

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of experimental films that overlap alongside a deconstructed soundscape. Entering a hallucinatory state in a haunt...

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence....

Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking....

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot....

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the curious lives of Jon and Cat, a young couple who are developing politically left-leaning virtual reality video games...

John the Baptist finds himself in a Holešovice silo, a wanderer roams across Prague´s brownfields and several women face their fathers....

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide....

A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation....

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A young pilot narrowly escapes the destruction of her home in a stolen ship, only to be followed by the colossal cockroach responsible....

Woman-god prepares for a much-needed vacation. Meanwhile, a nameless cast of characters go about their day, unbeknownst to them that a flick of a switch will cause them their lives, and possibly, the whole of humanity....

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives....

After a night of heavy drinking a young man has a dream where an angel tells him the world will end if he doesn't make a sacrifice....