A police detective is getting ready for his last day before retirement, when a murderer hands himself in at the department, and tells the detective his son is buried in a secret location, but first, he has to delve into his own past and solve three murders, each time revealing clues to the next. Starring Josh Duhamel and Dylan Sprouse.
LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Belgium face an impossible ask: prove their identity by reliving the worst things that have happened to them. For people who have hidden their queerness their whole lives just to survive, the asylum process demands the opposite: total openness, total detail, to complete strangers. Red Elephant follows those caught in this cruel contradiction, many of whom have fled deeply conservative, homophobic societies only to encounter a system that requires them to narrate their most painful experiences as evidence. The film gets close to the reality of what this process feels like; the waiting, the vulnerability, the absurdity of turning personal identity into a bureaucratic checkbox. Red Elephant is a powerful story about what gets lost when the price of safety is exposing the very thing you were taught to hide.
Limited public information is available. Based on its title, the film appears to examine the relationship between personal identity and the responsibilities attached to positions of authority or leadership.
5 women tell their stories of resilience and fight against oppression in the Dominican Republic and the United States in hilarious and heartbreaking ways.