Facing exorbitant fees for sessions with his therapist, Rodrigo Muñoz finds a great economical use of resources in this self–dramatization which portrays the account of his depression. In confronting the pecuniary dimension of the day-to-day, Rodrigo ironically seizes upon film as a process of emancipation.
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08 February 2020
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31 December 2020
The story of the former beauty queen and singer, Anita Bryant, who later in life gained notoriety by campaigning in the 1970s to repeal laws that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
12 April 2020
Henry is good, Henry is bad, but when it comes to footage that he finds, the end result is horrendous.
10 November 2020
Thirty years after the infamous 'Death Farm' murders in rural Pennsylvania, serial killing is in season once more.
17 April 2020
To travel an infinite universe is to find the unexpected. Ares (Phelan Davis), a soldier of a distant and bittersweet future, finds himself thrown into The Void: a dimension used by humanity as a shortcut through space, thought to contain nothing but emptiness.
16 December 2020
Salzburg. A few weeks before Christmas. Franz, in his late forties, secretly dreams of a career as a rock guitarist, but in real life he ekes out an unsuccessful existence as a music teacher.
22 February 2020
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10 October 2020
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16 April 2020
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12 April 2020
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