Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.
After her parents are transformed into pigs, young Chihiro becomes trapped in a mysterious, magical world inhabited by spirits and monsters. Terrified at first, the little girl slowly discovers a courage she never knew she possessed...
Love, cinema and naivety. They meet randomly in the street: João is unemployed, Clara is a cinema production assistant. They remember each other from film school. She invites him to come along in this film she’s working on. A melancholic comedy about the dynamics of a film crew and about finding your own place.
Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.
This film is not suitable for children Vermina, a weary elderly mother, wants to find the woman who will bring her son Fabian a little joy: by having sex with him for the first time. So what if Fabian is a mutated beast covered in pus-filled blisters? He also has a soul. And soon Vermina will happen upon the perfect victim: a young mother you would do anything to save her daughter's life.
Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is experiencing advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interest? If so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination? As Amanda and Martin are forced to make increasingly difficult choices, the repercussions spiral out of their control.
Arrebato (1980), the ultimate cult film of contemporary Spanish cinema, and its enigmatic director Iván Zulueta are bound together by a dark history in which cinema, addiction, and self-destruction become inseparable. The documentary reconstructs the downfall of one of Spanish cinema’s most legendary figures.
Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and fiercely independent professor of English literature, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and undergoes an aggressive experimental treatment. As her condition deteriorates, Vivian is forced to confront loneliness, mortality and the emotional detachment that has shaped both her academic career and personal life.
An elderly goat herder in the mountains of Namaqualand, South Africa, falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. As she waits for money that will never come, the disruptions of her 80th birthday threaten to strip away the last of her independence. Structured as a series of recurring visual ‘variations’, the film transforms repetition into revelation to frame a portrait of waiting, endurance, and loss.
Viv, a Chinese artist wannabe, got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and accidentally ventured into the vibrant alternative culture scene. To someone who was raised to follow “the standard”, everything seems so exciting. But to her family in China, the most alarming question surfaces: “why is she such an oddball?” Drifting between new environments and traditional expectations, Viv is constantly adapting to shifting opinions about herself, the world, and of course, China, only to feel more lost than ever.