Directing
The title "The Hostage" draws inspiration from a poem and a friend's real-life story. This film examines a Chinese woman's journey to America to give birth to an anchor baby, reflecting the struggles of over 10,000 women who make this choice annually. Isolated in a foreign land, she grapples with suffocating doubts: Am I ready for motherhood? Did I make the right decision? Confined to one apartment, the story uses surrealism to depict her inner turmoil. The film also explores human connection, transcending language and cultural barriers, showcasing how women support and empower one another despite their differences.
A film director meets his ex-wife after a long separation. As they spend time together, old promises begin to lose the meaning they once had.
A young Russian emigrant returns home after a series of events and recurring dreams remind him of his father.
Young Russian policeman Max investigates a series of poisoning-related deaths. In the process, he discovers a dark-web platform growing in popularity, which gradually exposes the true depth of poverty and aggression in society.
In 1954 Germany, a nine-year-old boy discovers his father’s secret work on a nuclear device with a sinister family guest, as his fear of the Sandman resurfaces in his own act of cruelty.
A young man with a terminal diagnosis goes to a rooftop to end his life, but a seizure interrupts him. A woman he meets a few moments later pulls him into a night neither of them knows how to leave.
A series of short documentary essays on political failures, historical memory and the stories societies tell themselves as they try to understand their own decline. Includes “Why Do Civilizations Collapse?”; “Is Democracy in Danger? Tech Elites and The Dark Enlightenment”; “Does Economic Inequality Inevitably Lead to Political Inequality?” and “Shame and Pride in History”.
Ivy finds herself confronted with parallel universes in which her life unspools in very different ways set against the modern London jazz scene.
The film follows a young man in financial trouble who accepts help from an old friend and is drawn into a situation whose logic he can no longer read.
While his parents are away, Gregory and several friends take a car to the countryside. By morning, one of them is dead, and it is no longer clear whether the night ended in an accident or in something Gregory caused.
In a world where love is the rule, an aromantic and asexual couple has to pretend to be in love in front of a government agent who visits their home to assess their love.
