A short film depicting the feelings of depression, anxiety, stress and other mental illnesses.
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A short film depicting the feelings of depression, anxiety, stress and other mental illnesses.
Part 1 of Kambalapalli Kathalu from Aha. Fascinated by the world of computers and the internet, an innocent 18-year-old Ravi feels elated when a fellow villager Hybath opens a gaming centre. Soon, an email unfurls a series of unexpected events stirring life-altering experiences.
1950s New York. After immigrating from Shanghai to Upstate New York for more than a decade, the traditional and Chinese-at-heart Mrs. Wang finds herself slowly drifting apart from her Americanized husband and teenage daughter.
Alone in her apartment, Liv is counting the days until she is reunited with the woman she loves. Accompanied by her audio-tapes, she thinks back on her relationship as the solitude slowly begins to test her mental strength.
Mai, who has been withdrawn since her mother's death, spends her days playing games and sleeping. Her father is worried about his daughter's habits but he doesn't know how to deal with it and asks for advice online.
Two brothers get an unwelcome surprise when two men break into the house looking for hidden money.
A short film by Katy López.
As a girl opens her eyes and wakes up in a vast forest, a voice announces that she is part of a simulation, artificially shaped by scientists from the future. The girl, refusing to believe her, hurries to escape unsuccessfully. This virtual world is her only memory and the way out of it assumes that the girl will succeed in recalling her real life. This is the last hope for the experiment to be successful and for the girl to regain her life. Will he be able to remember or will he be disconnected? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
A teenage girl receiving anonymous hate messages finds the situation complicated when her aggressive older brother tries to intervene.
The Swiss-Chilean citizen Carlos Kindermann has returned to the Araucania region in Chile after 47 years. He returns to his childhood land, from which he was torn away before his adolescence. Not even the 3,000 thousand hectares of valuable territory he comes to receive as an inheritance from his recently deceased father can reverse the physical and mental exhaustion he brings from Europe. Kindermann wants to sell quickly and forget as soon as possible this unwanted journey. Events however, slowly disintegrate this desire and push the character to a crossroads of life and death, between two openly excluding world views.
On the last day of summer, a group of friends attempt to break into a local music festival.
Two kids' friendship is tested in a game of cards as a mysterious figure watches them from outside.
In Taiwan Zhi-Wei, a married man, meets Amanda again, an old lover, for a night.
Golden autumn. Yakut hinterland. More than ten years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. A 23-year-old boy named Mahees is given the task by the collective farm chairman to accompany the young teacher to a neighboring village. Aanchyk, that's the name of the girl, after completing her studies, she is assigned to work in a rural school. It would seem that a simple task turns into a real challenge for young people. A bear suddenly appears on their way. He pursues them. The heroes of the film understand that all this is happening to them for a reason. A chain of unusual meetings, strange finds, bitter memories, disturbing dreams and visions lead to the answer to the most important question in the life of the protagonist: who is his father and where did he disappear to?! After all, his father went to war, and never returned... Mehees understands that this is all connected with his father - a former hunter and now a missing soldier.
After the death of his mother, Raúl is forced to look for his father to solve a legal problem with a property, he finds him in a distant town married to a young woman and after 20 years without seeing him they begin a conflictive and longing relationship.
A lonely artist leaves his paintings on the front doors of people's homes in an attempt to connect with them. However, one person won't accept his gift.
What do you do, who do you turn to when you suspect your significant other of cheating? That's the question that plagued the mind of a small town business owner Daniel. Fed up with the lack of affection Daniel decides to take matters into his own hands and hires a Private Investigator Jacob Miller. The result from his investigation is shocking but oddly he decides to keep them to himself for now.
Tim is longing for love and connection with other people. He’s a lonely human being who struggles with exclusion every day. Every time Tim feels different, he transforms into a French bulldog.
Designed to guide Chalice through the challenges of growing up in a volatile world, BOB confronts more and more of the conflicts in Chalice’s life on her behalf, while Chalice grows increasingly escapist. As Dr. Wong begins to favor the BOB side of his daughter, and as BOB threatens to do the job of living Chalice’s life better than she can, Chalice jealously wonders: what is left for her classic human self to do?
A film like spring, a bittersweet coming-of-age tale that feels very real in a joie-de-vivre way. This is a film about complex relations and about celebrating freedom, told as a nature-saturated love story with secret doors that sometimes even creek when closed, with everyone bathed in that special kind of light from that sun that only seems to shine for adolescents.
Italy 1965. Marcello, a middle-class man, decides to spend the night with a prostitute. He gets in touch with a luxurious brothel managed by a very strict owner with draconian rules. Among multiple women introduced to him he chooses Bice, a young woman in her early twenties. After their sexual intercourse the bedroom’s phone rings.
The movie exposes the life of a young lady " Eposi " who learns she will die if she does not receive a transfusion of rare blood from a donor.
An actress creates theater from the lives in her apartment block through a monologue. Her neighbors—Medea, Antigone, Electra and six other tragic women— meet together by fate, while Death randomly calls to every apartment, waiting for one to open the door.
A young man wakes up, goes to work, comes home, and goes to sleep.
An introductory trip into the world of philosophy for what it is and why it is.
After a bed bug infestation at her shared flat, Emilie becomes temporarily homeless. Rejecting every offer of help out of pride and fear of rejection, she instead gets entangled with the other so-called parasites of society.
A man wakes up each morning with no memory of his past. When he meets a woman the two set out to see if they can find their memories.
In a decaying rural community in Southern Ontario, Evan, an isolated, narrow-minded teen starts a new job at a run down, decrepit bait shop that is being primed to be sold as land for a sub-division. Upon arriving for his first shift, Evan discovers that his supervisor is the pink haired, outspoken Ross. Through their tedious job the two slowly grow closer, and Evan happens upon Ross' rich but strenuous inner world, involving himself, his sister, and the shadowy figure of his boss' ultra macho son. As a result, Evan's worldview and biases are challenged as he navigates the cataclysmic changes happening in his small town.
Fatale Déliss, a radio host in Saint-Tropez, takes Tom Lamortigue, her lawyer, hostage, and threatens to kill him if he does not succeed in preventing Bruno Leclerc, her companion, from leaving her.
After a night at the club, a man tries to enter his car but is blocked by the software running it, because of his alcohol level. The man and the car discuss like a couple until his physical and verbal violence grows unexpectedly.
In the midst of lockdown in Nepal, a family tries to get through the hardship of poverty, class difference and hunger.
The story is set in a tiny Kurdish village. Isa’s younger brother is murdered and brought back to his hometown. Two weeks after the funeral, his mother Zîn dreams of giving a wedding celebration for her deceased son. This strange idea sparks off a host of contradictory feelings within her, and between her and Isa and family members, who are still reeling from the trauma and grief of losing a brother. The family gradually proceeds into a grey area in their relationship. These ordinary people find themselves living in a psychological minefield wrestling on the planes between logic, norms, emotions, and irrationality.
At a theatre workshop for young people, a teenager embarks on a sexual relationship with a slightly older girl. But isn’t this all a bit of a mistake? The people around them react in various ways, yet no-one is indifferent to what’s going on.
A satirical take on the current-day reality, that revolves around a billionaire, a gang of amateur thieves, a veteran activist, and an immigrant techie on a fateful Monday. Touches the subjects of racism, police brutality and class differences on a lighter note.
The Black Cop follows a former police officer’s experience of being both the victim and perpetrator of racism within the police. It’s a riveting confessional about compromise, fortitude and self-discovery - to find a way through systemic racism and homophobia, by pioneering and championing rights within the force and wider society.
At the beginning of the epic feature Praying the Hours, the Traveling Man dies in an accident caused by someone he trusts and loves. During the time it takes for him to cross from this life to the next, he visits eight friends with whom he has surprising unresolved business. He sees their lives from the vantage point of eternity, giving him glimpses of beauty and struggle that mirror his own. His journey culminates in a wedding where he views his own life with tender grace—just as he is leaving it. His bittersweet tale, imagined from real events, allows us to see how hard times and even death can make way for transcendence.
Mateo, Belén, and María José, three siblings that have grown apart, are forced to meet again in order to close the deal to sell the house they spent their childhood in. Therefore, they will need to set off on a trip to their old town in their father's old car. But the road awaits them with obstacles that will force them to deal with their own buried conflicts.
This is a fragment of the sacred lizard in desecrated times, an intermittent tour of the flashing body of the Cipactli lizard. Part of the Cipactli series.
A couple, Donny and Marie, awake one morning to find a baby has appeared in their apartment. Unsure what to do, and bewildered by the intrusion, they seek guidance from the eccentric Dr.Hoofenhoffer.
In the middle of a landscape on the brink of extinction, a couple of mom and son trek into a native cave in order to recount their lifetime memories together. This personal portrait cuts deep into the vulnerable present moments of an ex-colonized nation which is transiting into the digital age. Told in the first-person perspective camera, this film also explores a new possibility of storytelling.
Three parallel stories with a common theme: to become an adult in a cruel and competitive world; the wild jungle of everyday life. Alejandro turns thirty looking very far from his dreams, so he takes action: he decides to storm a gasoline to get the money needed for his jam manufacturing company. He is helped by Juanse, his best friend, whose wife fights for a well-deserved promotion in a supermarket, but his boss tries to change the job promotion for sex. Coco, Alejandro's cousin, is attacked and confronts the barrabravas of the neighborhood to recover their belongings, among which is his cell phone with intimate images of his girlfriend. Jubentú: one day in our fucking life.
o An attempt to disconnect from technological everyday life. Another confirmation that this is becoming an inseparable part of us. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
In this darkly comic short, a young man endures a strange tragedy and then becomes obsessed with crashing funerals and giving eulogies for people he never knew.
Slovakia, World War II. Two musicians join partisans to free their country from Nazi occupation and witness the horrors committed by Hitler's soldiers.
Julian is an up and coming star who wants it all. The money, the fame, the recognition - but soon things start to get awry. It doesn’t take long for him to realise he must face the true reality of his situation and decide whether to continue to pursue what he wants or accept what he needs.
The world is about to end. Maya is forced to go home to Zambales. Now, she must confront a house that terrorizes her as frogs rain outside.
100 M Criminal Conviction is a crime thriller set against the backdrop of the fashion industry. As they maneuver through the maze, the characters weave an enthralling tale of tactics and trickery.
Elias is not connecting with any of the other millennials he’s on vacation with. After witnessing them perform a shocking display of cruelty toward a defenseless creature, he becomes even more alienated from the group. But dealing with the aftermath of the incident will prove pivotal in his struggle with his own inner demons.
A young couple encounters a ghostly hitchhiker trying to get home from her accident thirty years ago. But though they may know how this old ghost story goes, the ending isn't anything like what they expect.
Packing away at his late father’s apartment, a stoic man finds himself grappling with grief and anger. Unable to cope yet refusing to open up, he retreats from cold, harsh reality into a warm, fuzzy forest, where he is left alone and there’s no more emotion, no more pain, no more struggle.
After being kidnapped and held hostage, an innocent man must plead that he doesn't know Jack.
A Fish Boy travels long distances through the countryside in search of some water to survive. In Wet City, not far from there, its inhabitants squander it daily using it carelessly. An unexpected storm will change everyone's life and put things in their place.
Two cousins inherit a codeine connect from Detroit after they OG is mysteriously murdered.
A young woman deals with a breakup by going to the movies alone.
A man lives alone in his apartment. He tries to connect with the outside world but gets hurt in the process.
Aryati, a divorcee, works as an online taxi driver to support her three children, Bayu, Tika, and Kinanti. Together, they confront the hardships of family life.