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A migrant labourer and his disabled son make their way to their village during Covid lockdown.

Sarah-Jane is a young aspiring jazz singer from Bournemouth who moves to London to embark on a music career. Not long in town, she falls for the handsome Airbeats, but also sinister music producer Russell-D, who represents a darker side to the music industry.

Julien visits his 6 year-old daughter Cléa, whom he hasn't seen for a long time. As she does all she can to attract his attention, Julien is more interested in getting closer to Lucie, Cléa's mother, so the three of them can all live together again.

Grzegorz, diagnosed as an autistic child, lives in his hermetic world, unable to establish contact with others. When he turns fourteen, it turns out that the cause of isolation is not autism, but hearing loss, which hides great musical talent.

A boy needs to get his suitcase to the top of the hill, will anybody help him?

Asso, a religious man in his forties, is an extremist. He loves his family, but has to face the dilemma of choosing between his wife and the Islamic strict rules.

Follows Allison at a crossroads in her career and love life, in need of the love and support of her two friends. After visiting her in Tuscany, each woman will reexamine the state of her own life and relationships.

When Reilly and Darwin hear about budget cuts at the office, they agree to act in solidarity to save their jobs.

After some misunderstanding, Sakaguchi is hired to make a tourist guide video on Tobako (a fictitious name for Kawaguchi) in the outskirts of Tokyo. This element in the script sparks off a fanciful wandering strewn with unexpected meetings. First with Kitagawa, thanks to whom Sakaguchi landed the job. Then with a seamstress, and then with Yoshino, with whom a half-hearted romance emerges. Thus the narrative unfolds, in halts and swerves, espousing unexpected meetings, and offering the strolling character an opportunity for displacements from one place to the next. The deserted town has come to a standstill - the shooting took place during the lockdown - and this acts as a metaphor for the idleness of the characters. GARDEN SANDBOX is light and nimble, whereas its main character hasa limp. Her demeanour and her stiff body exude a peculiar quality, somewhat comically at odds with the setting.

It is the middle of August in an apartment in the Roman suburbs. Tommaso is a teenager and is subjected to the teasing of his older brother Leonardo, who calls him "Pelorosso" because of his coppery hair. If he wants his brother to stop teasing him, Tommaso will have to cut his hair.

Jorge is a musician, he gets fired trying to find a melody from the noise of the street, the same day his wife and youngest son died. He must appear sane to take care of his oldest son Lucas, otherwise, he will also lose him.

Jessica, a trans woman living in Brighton, hasn't been on a date since before she transitioned. Wanting to get back into the dating game but hesitant to make the first move, her friend Taylor suggests the idea of a blind date, to which Jessica reluctantly agrees. Things take an unexpected turn when Jessica realises that the person that she's been set up on a blind date with is actually someone she used to go to school with before she transitioned.

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents to reassess many of their certainties and question the effects on the happiness of their children.

In order to escape from their lives, the teenage girls Carina and Denise always walk along the edge - smoking, stealing, drinking. When they have to bear the consequences for their actions, Carina gets to know Nikolas and with him another perspective on their painful world.

After a mysterious tarot reading from a client, Mina, who works in a photographic development studio, decides to fulfill her fantasy.

An autistic high school boy emulates the swim style of his Olympic gold medalist grandfather to become a swimming champion himself.

Uncle Kenny has always had a larger-than-life character, which inspired his nephew, Matthew, to develop a love for life and music. A heartwarming encounter with a terminally ill girl at a hospice led Kenny to pen his wishlist to live life to the fullest and be remembered by his legacy. Will Matthew fulfill Kenny's wishes to have an unconventional celebration of life when the time comes? Will his family be able to follow through his Wishlist eventually?

An intimate portrayal of Suvana Sudeb, a transgender person, who undergoes Gender Affirmative Surgery in order to negotiate the conflict of body and mind. This decision creates turmoil in her family, who fear societal backlash. As love remains elusive as always, Suvana realises that the surgery could not change her destiny, forcing her to reconcile with reality anew.

Stevie hates her dead mom but is confronted with her confusing feelings when she and her sister Julia must spread the ashes on the one-year anniversary of her death.

After living in London for several years, Ramona and her boyfriend Nico, return to Madrid where she hopes to re-start her acting career. The evening before her first audition she meets Bruno, an older man. The following day, at the audition, she discovers that Bruno is the director of the film.

In 2064, the human body no longer has secrets. The world record for the men’s 100-meter dash set by Jamaican athlete Powell more than fifty years ago remains unbroken. Twenty-three-year-old athlete Mara is preparing for the next Olympics until a gunshot shatters the highway order like a curse.

A young interior designer can no longer stand her job. Like every day, she's the first to arrive at the office, followed by Eric, her arrogant colleague who seems to have it all. Despite the stress caused by her boss demanding a project by the evening, the young woman maintains her facade of a smile. But under pressure, she cracks and reveals her true colors...

On a set filled with tension, a nervous director tries to shoot a horror movie. Meanwhile, six strangers suddenly appear who tell their story, explaining that they are the characters of the script left by a dead author.

Louise (28) and her team are on a team-building course in a secluded retreat, led by Yin-Yoga coach Verena (48). However, what begins in a feel-good atmosphere increasingly becomes a compulsion to disclose their innermost fears and issues. One after the other, the participants share their traumatic memories during the exercises, hoping to free themselves from their past and thus perform better in their job. Despite being pressured by Verena, Louise struggles to follow suit and becomes more and more of an outsider.

Days have passed since Antoni Iglesias son, the cobbler of Ordis, disappeared. The recurrent visions of him crying for help will be the trigger for the cobbler to look for him. This trip will turn a desperate adventure to flee his sadness.

A story surrounding a statue built in 1600 called the Haunted Jizo. An evil ghost is eliminated by the power of the Haunted Jizo.

Blind Innocence is the story of a father and his young daughter, Mary, living in an isolated 1800's countryside cottage. As the story unfolds, we uncover a darker underlying secret that the Father has been hiding from young Mary.

A recently broken up couple spends their last evening together: for one of the girls this is the last chance to revive their relationship, for the other – to show the true meaning of it and why it should have ended.

What lies beyond Death? Does Justice indeed Prevail? The testing of your faith is more precious than gold. So, keep on believing.

Childhood friends and sweethearts are ready to get married. But they also want to experience being single before taking the plunge.

A free-spirited teen fulfills her terminally ill grandmother's dying wish of building a rocket ship to launch her into outer space.

Sergio visits his elderly mother on her birthday after more than a year away. There, he meets María, a twenty-something girl who begins to attract him and presents him with an opportunity to reconnect with his past.

A short film that will surely give you lessons about HOPE… Two aspiring actor played on this one of a kind story… Rod Corpuz and Jiro Salazar…

Keeley Banks is struggling against society, her christian father and the feeling of being an outcast. She rebels against them all in way no one could expect.

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

A newly retired couple embarks on a cruise, but they find themselves drifting further apart. When things don’t go as planned, they learn to evolve their relationship in this affectionate comedy about self-discovery and developing new ways to spend one’s golden years.

Based on a true story, this film follows the life of Scott Highberger, an inmate turned prison minister. Through trial and tribulation, Scott met a God greater than addiction and crime who saved his life.

A skateboarding teenager adjusts to living with his estranged father and finding his place in the world, inspired by The Nutcracker and filled with music and dance.

Teresa tries to help Geovana as they both deal with their loss.

A jazz musician struggles to come to terms with his age when he is assigned a live in nurse.

A series of resident disappearances occurs at a Kyowakai-owned apartment in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, home to many people with complicated backgrounds. Nakajima (Yoshimi Tachi) volunteers to investigate, and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), uneasy about sending him alone, orders Saito (Katsuya) to accompany him. Despite searching Kabukicho, they find no solid leads. That night, Saito recalls a rumor about the “Kabukicho kidnappings” from 20 years earlier, told to him in prison by Wang (Weng Huarong), and reaches out to him. Meanwhile, Nakashima heads into Kabukicho alone under the guise of patrol, hiding a personal motive. Just then, an unknown number calls Nakashima’s phone…

Living with his older brother and his fantasy world while dealing with the added heartbreak of his son takes Declan on a journey where the only way to move forward is to accept fantasy as reality.

A young man sets out to challenge the world and himself after a hard partying. Along his manic journey, he encounters his Sancho Panza, the party guests who have come to see him, the royal court and the conclave.

Román is a frustrated architect who seeks refuge in a parallel world that he has built from his studio, where he receives the appreciation and recognition that he believes he deserves.

High school wrestler Chris Torres pursues his dream to fly jets at the US Naval Academy. Can he overcome the challenges of his senior year to win a State Championship and keep his goal of becoming a Navy fighter pilot?

It deals with the life of an Egyptian family across different generations in a comedic style of show. It presents the social and cultural changes between them, and the family tensions resulting from different customs and values, with a focus on humor and music to convey a message about adapting to time changes and maintaining family ties.

A quest of a woman. After loosing her husband, a woman wanders through her memories to find salvation.

After falling in love with a brilliant scientist, a closeted gay military chaplain meets his father, a prominent pastor, so he can finally come out. When things take a deadly turn, will the pastor make a decision that goes against everything he believes?

Ingrid, an intelligent and beautiful 40-year old Western photojournalist, visits Sinai to finalise her photoshoot for her upcoming exhibition. She is kidnapped by terrorists and falls in love with one of the men.

Set during the height of the Great Depression, a young man gets a job as a photographer and comes face to face with a test of his morals.

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