Three irrepressible graduate students are in a race to beat the competition to discover the switch that controls appetite in the human body. The pressure is on, as they each have to deal with their own personal challenges. Rob, a perennial dropout, dares himself to stay the course. Kilpatrick has to choose between the easy life and academic success. Gabriele hovers between high aspirations and self-doubt. Their guide and mentor, Larry, is a young professor deeply committed to passing on the baton of science. He urges his students to apply their creativity to solve problems, while encouraging them to embrace the emotional roller coaster of doing science. Over three years of filming, scenes of intense hands-on research reveal the ups and downs of the mentor-student relationship, the collaboration that science depends on, and the self-knowledge that success requires. Gabriele finally admits that she prefers to work in a team rather than put herself on the line and quits the PhD program. Kilpatrick, having battled Larry to get him through the PhD quickly, takes a job in business. Rob comes close to dropping out, but driven by his passion to make an impact and sustained by Larry's unreserved confidence in him, scores a breakthrough success and discovers himself as a scientist.

In 1993, Jason Voorhees went to hell in what is one of the most polarizing installments in the franchise. Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday features the story of writer / director Adam Marcus. Love it or hate it, go behind the scenes for a never-before-seen look at the 9th installment of one of the most iconic franchises in the horror genre.

A moving portrait of a creative sanctuary lost to gentrification. Centered on the now-vanished warehouse at 411 New York Avenue NE, the film revisits the final year of Union Arts DC—a vibrant hub that from 2012 to 2016 was home to visual artists, musicians, performers, and dreamers. Through archival footage, intimate interviews, and the voices of artists who worked and performed there, the documentary captures the spirit of a space where art thrived and community flourished—until developers arrived with plans for a boutique hotel. As tenants rallied to save their space, Making Spaces: The Legend of Union Arts becomes a powerful elegy for what was lost and a rallying cry for what’s still at stake in the future of DC’s cultural landscape.

We all live in "relationship”. A short documentary filmed in the village of "Nagataki" in the mountains of Nara. For the first time in 30 years, the voices of children echo through the mountains of this once marginal settlement. As we guided by the children as they run and play, we encounter a village that has changed its shape to preserve, the quiet vitality and work of people who have remained unchanged through the ages. Supervised by Naomi Kawase