The next dystopic fad of celebrity likeness reigns supreme in director / writer Brandon Cronenberg's feature film debut Antiviral.

The head protagonist in Ciarán Foy's Citadel, suffers gravely from agoraphobia. On top of his personal woes, his baby daughter becomes the next target to a group of mutant children wreaking havoc within the city. What more can you ask for?

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are both filmmakers, artists, and anthropologists. Their latest collaborative effort is called Leviathan, an experimental and visually unique scope into the lives and times of modern fishing. It had its world premiere at the 2012 Locarno International Film Festival.

Getting philosophical with the nature of skin in J'aurai Ta Peau, a short documented, directed, and partially animated by the JTP Team (consisting of Victoria Jardine, Vivien Ebran, Alexis Koch, and Nicolas Trotignon). With very cool sound design work done by Benoit Duvette.

Director Kirby Dick pulls back the shocking veil covering the tragic toll of women soldiers being raped in their military service. The Invisible War is no doubt a stirring examination that exposes a nightmarish problem that has gone unchecked for far too long. It is yet another permanent scar in our human history that leaves me bewildered and speechless.

Director Peter Strickland immerses our sense of sound into a pool of horrific delight in his latest feature entitled Berberian Sound Studio. A creeping scare flick that unflinchingly entwines its narrative and head protagonist within its own aural web-work. Got to love a film that tampers with its own cinematic tools!

Director Ron Scalpello smudges the line between justice and vengeance in his latest feature length Offender. The film centers on a Young Offenders Institute, and it's newest recruit readying a dangerous plan of revenge against a gang of notorious inmates. I can always count on the cinematic elegance of Britain's rebellious violence and emotionally-overwhelming depictions of angst. A much appreciated find by the blind architect.

While authoring here, I at times  mostly  act like an offensive twit and a jackarse, it is true that I am just a hopeless romantic at heart. It's films like Starry Starry Night that just remind me of that. This film looks like a wonderful mix of imagination, loneliness, and a sweetness to each other. "Do you still remember? That summer.  That most splendid. Most lonely of starry nights." Stick a fork in me, Tom Lin, because that was well done.

Bryan Little's documentary The African Cypher plunges itself into the underworld of street dance culture in South Africa.

We've featured philosophers, intellectuals, artists, and here and there, we'd feature musicians. Throughout early civilizations, the frontiers passionately orchestrated classical music, and eventually, the next generation branched out to jazz. From there, there was rock, hip-hop, and IDM. There was Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Nina Simone, and the Wu-Tang Clan. In the blink of time, there were several artists that paved the roots in silence. In a manner of sincerity, I'd like to share Chet Baker. A documentary, 'Let's Get Lost'.

Toad Road, is the path to hell... A stirring urban legend adaptation from director / writer Jason Banker.

We are extremely proud to present the first in a long line of featured Art documentaries produced and distributed exclusively by Empty Kingdom Studios, our brand new & very own in-house media production arm of ek.com!

Kim Ki-Duk roars back into the cinema with his 18th feature entitled Pieta // 피에타. An irksome loan shark is reunited with a strange woman claiming to be his long lost mother. From that point on, a strange, controversially violent / sexual relationship ensnares them both into a calamitous drama. Glad to see the South Korean auteur back in form.

An exploratory film about the complex underwater universe of coral reefs, all projected onto a massive planetarium dome... Who says education can't be entertaining? Tilt your head back into the realm of Lynette Wallworth's enlightening project Coral Rekindling Venus. Read more from the artist's statement after the jump.

Director Nisha Pahuja's documentary The World Before Her examines the ever-growing cultural / societal rift between the women of modern day India. Internationally adopted meanings of glamour battle traditional Hindu ideologies through the telling of personal journeys in Pahuja's film. The hardboiled testimonials, opinions, and emotive sacrifices make it hard to say that anyone arrives at some sort of compromise / consensus. Agree to disagree? I think not... More explanatory synopsis can be read after the jump.

A family road trip to the northern regions of Chile abstractly portrays a marriage on the brink of divorce. Small quarrels, negative gestures, nods, gazes, and a scarce amount of conversations are just some of the details we observe through the eyes of the couple's daughter. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo's Thursday Till Sunday // De Jueves a Domingo tackles a very personal subject with intellectual poise, taking a hard to explain topic and rendering its effects into the framework of film. Check out the film details (via IFFR 2012), screenshots, and video embed after the jump.

Director Wei Te-Sheng recaptures a historical battle between the Japanese army and the indigenous Seediq tribes of Taiwan. The violent and heroic confrontation was called the Wushe Incident. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale digs into these past tales of tragedy and incalculable risk to present a politically relevant and smartly executed war story without being muddled with bangs, booms, and whistles (no worries, there's still plenty of that). Official summary details and lengthy historical background info after the jump.

Environmental Terrorism (Eco-Terrorism), a somewhat extreme and definitively fuzzy juxtaposition of words that tries to find rational compromise throughout the compelling documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. Directors Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman distribute / divide the facts and opinions from each opposing side, ironically revealing shared truths and miscalculated assumptions. (Wonderful image above taken by photographer TJ Watt).

There was one particular element that struck me when I first watched the trailer for Dallas Hallam's & Patrick Horvath's semi-found-footage-esque suspense piece Entrance. It was the realism. I could easily picture myself in any of the film's various city scenes, and the fact that this is an outside-of-the-box type of horror flick, the idea certainly gives me goosebumps.

The Loneliest Planet challenges a couple's relationship during their mountainside vacationing. Director and video installation auteur Julia Loktev treks alongside this slowly unfolding narrative soaked in silent mystery.