Pregnant woman escaping the woods

In The Reversal, Jennifer Boles engages the archive – and foregoes making new images in favour of repurposing existing ones. Photographs of the reversal of the Chicago River at the turn of the nineteenth century unfurl to an appropriately machine-like rhythm. The result is a haunting, black-and-white evocation of the efforts of anonymous men whose collective labour – and, often, lives – went into this capital-driven reorganisation of nature.

Amnesiac boxer Jin Cancan is mistakenly identified as the heiress of the powerful Desheng Group and is pressured into returning. Her bold, decisive nature disrupts the timid image of the real heiress. While searching for the truth behind her supposed father’s mysterious death, she partners with the actual heiress, Bai Lu, and together they get entangled in the intense corporate power struggles within the company.

A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.

After the shocking death of a young man, his best friend and his girlfriend set out on a week-long backpacking trip attempting to find closure in very different ways. As they hike deeper into the forest, they find themselves entrenched in one another’s grief as they come to terms with a new relationship to mortality.

In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain — where nature obeys no rules but its own.

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.