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Carmenza is a hard-working colombian woman. She lives in a slum in Antofagasta with her grandson Yorman. She works as a housemaid and tries to raise money for Yorman’s mother, who is ill in Colombia. Carmenza wants Yorman to return with her to their country so he can meet his mother, but he knows that the only option he has to get out of this environment is to stand out in football and be able to play in the local soccer club.
A former addict explains his wrongdoings on his deathbed
An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessments that become progressively performative to attest to the legitimacy and acceptability of their relationship.
At a traditional market, Bowo and Susi are looking around. An old man, Agus, and his wife passing through the sudden smell of fart. Susi is getting angry because of that smell. Then Susi and some others in the market catch and punish Agus as they believed he is the one who farted in public. Agus and his wife have to admit and accept the accusation because they are very confused about the situation and don’t know what to do.
Two strangers - Brittany and Laurent - end up in the same cabin in the woods due to the landlord accidentally double booking his property. Both wanted to escape society in order to deal with their personal circumstances.
Sui and Jae Won are a class couple in high school. Then, on Jae won's birthday, Sui worries about not hearing from Jae-won.
Geoffrey, 12, and his brother Kimanthi, 15, have to travel to Shimoni to bury their grandmother. It is a most dreadful journey for the two as it will bring them face to face with the man who sexually molested them years ago.
Paul comes out of the hospital where, after a series of tests, his doctor tells him that he only has a few more days to live. Devastated by this news, he decides to hit the roads of France.
A man gets an unwanted visit from a therapist in his apartment.
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
Teenager Deni wants to live like his rap idols, but he's still his mom's baby. In an effort to prove himself to his classmate and school bully, Kelam, he commits a minor crime. When the police come to Deni's home, he's ready to confess, but his mom has other plans.
A short film from Centro Escolar University - Manila.
Trailer Park Princess is the story of Claire, a young woman thrust too early into adulthood, and her 12-year old sister Audrey. Both of them struggle to survive the hardships of life growing up in poverty with only each other to depend on.
Story of a young man who no longer wants to know about existing things in the non-existence, and his return to native home.
The story of a successful MMA fighter who became the best among the best in the world. He lost his family as a child. God gave the boy the gift of winning and being invulnerable. This gift was first seen by his only relative – his grandfather, Nikolai Spiridonovich. It was he who instilled in the boy a love of work and knowledge. A deep philosophical parable, reflections on life and nature, communication between grandfather and grandson about goodness, laws, traditions and family values.
A story about a friendship – two young adults who haven’t seen each other for a long time, both got older and are dealing with problems they don’t understand.
A woman who is a victim of sexual violence comes to a human rights group that is protesting against sexual violence and asks her to report it together. However, no one actively stands up for women.
An aging actor is grateful to be cast in a theatrical production, but he feels lost and unwanted among his college-aged castmates.
A man collects Hedorah's tadpoles and unleashes them in the heart of Tokyo. An entry for GEMSTONE's Creators Audition, a collaborative project between Toho Co., Ltd. and AlphaBoat in which Japanese artists and filmmakers competed in a challenge to create new works inspired by the Godzilla series.
A film director wanders through his mind in search of inspiration.
Two aspiring reporters learn about the history and significance of jallikattu protest to secure a job in a private channel. The film begins with Sukanya (Shruti Reddy) and Parthasarathy (Naveen) attending an interview for the post of a reporter in a private channel. When the interviewer feels that they do not know much about the history of jallikattu and the protests which took place, he gives them two weeks' time to learn thoroughly about the bull-taming sport. The rest of the film is their presentation about jallikattu to the interview board.
A dive bar, a tango environment, a card game of truco, a pregnant waitress mistreated by a boss, who later ends up leaving her in the street with her newborn son. The son, named Faxman after an old illusionist, grows up and becomes an illusionist himself, traveling through different Argentine cities with his show. During one of his performances, Faxman meets Candelaria, who becomes his assistant as well as the love of his life.
Mirna and Pablo start a friendship framed in reflections about identity, loneliness and death during the 90's in Chile. A story about fellowship and HIV/AIDS, inspired by the literary work of Pedro Lemebel.
A coming-of-age story about a girl, Winona (14), on the last day of summer before entering high school.
Omar’s future is jeopardized when he has to deal with the hardships of living in the streets as an undocumented, gay teenager after his mother and only source of support is deported to Honduras. Getting accepted into a prestigious university intensifies his willingness to persist through the challenges that being alone in this country imposes.
Stories of a Madman is a collection of short stories with each story taking place in a different hotel room at the same hotel on the same night: Christmas Eve. Each story shares the theme of 'Crime Story with a supernatural twist'.
A short film about the family dynamic between an alcohol dependent mother, her deaf teenage son, and her 7-year old daughter.
A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.
When Teonna is unexpectedly suspended from school, she encounters a girl from her past who takes her on an adventure through the city.
From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will arise in the most unpleasant of forms.
Eager to forge his reputation in crime, Douglas Huffel manipulates a bottle shop robbery by planting his own money inside the store. Instead, the very aspects of crime he fervently avoided begin to catch up with him.
Quinn lives with her grandfather. She often feels very misunderstood and alone, so she looks for a way out in a new social media, D-Dream.
Bullied at school and beaten by her mother, Taiwanese-Japanese teenager Rei runs away from home and is spontaneously taken in by Aoi, an office worker stigmatized by petty gossip. After a traumatic event binds them even closer together, the pair flee Tokyo and hide away in an abandoned inn. Together, they create a utopian space of female camaraderie and solace, but before long are forced to face reality.
An American man meets an African woman and love blossoms, the hurdles he overcame where tradition and cultures clash. This South African produced film tells of a love story of patience and forgiveness. Comic relief sets off the seriousness of tradition in African tribes and their wedding customs.
Akira is a high school transfer student with a deteriorating relationship with his father. When he arrives at his new school, he stumbles onto a classmate being bullied. His intervention triggers two new friendships — one with the victim Scott and the other with Elizabeth — the classmate who aids him after he is knocked out. Scott has a worse problem than the bullies — he has not come out at home yet. But Elizabeth may have an even bigger problem: she is a social pariah because she keeps acting as though someone or something is after her. Meanwhile, Akira’s home front situation is going from bad to worse.
In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, a couple try to fight against the time to accomplish their last promess.
Amid a crowded wedding day. Al-Bandari is desperate to buy a red rose for her husband. Will she succeed in her attempts?
Mercy, a girl aged 13 and raped by her step father rejects her pregnancy with the help of her mother through an illegal abortion. The child dumped in a pit latrine survives and finds a home at an orphanage center.
Casablanca! A group of young Comorians trapped in despair come together. They plan joint projects and dream of a bright future for their country. However, this common will is threatened by attempts of seduction of which Moina Hindru, the initiator of the movement, is the object. All the boys love him. Will she choose love or fight for a better tomorrow?
Aria Prima is a story that is closely linked to the territory it comes from. The film focuses on one of the most consumed and most unnoticed primary treasure: The Air. It tells us about a family and his emotional evolution in front of some key moments in their lives.
A moist fresco of the act and the viewing of masturbation. Master where are you. Not shouted research, but instead a telluric implosion, the observation of a disappearance, a useless SOS hurled among paper notebooks, protective nature, cars whose motors are turned off, and forgotten nests.
A pair of ex-lovers argues in bed about their past relationship. They reminisce as each image from their memory comes alive as if it was happening right there. A conversation, banal in its nature, with hints of a video-essay and meta-cinema, ends up exploring the different ways in which we can recall love.
Heartbroken and desperate, Ariely will accept help - wherever she can find it and by whomever can offer a lending ear.
Charles Jones is a participant in an experiment to see if people living on the autistic spectrum (neuro-diverse) can use their special gifts to offer alternative solutions to challenges in the medical field. From his perspective, everyone he has not made a personal connection with are seen as children. Played the Richmond Film Festival
An upset musician comes to an unidentified place for isolation but his life changes as he meets a girl with extremely spontaneous yet thoughtful nature.
From her to eternity portrays the contained anger of a rock artist. The combustion of the cigarette transforms melancholy and frustration into the smoke that shoots from her mouth, from her towards the sadness that drowns her behind the scenes minutes before going on stage, from her, to eternity.
Released as a promotional film series along the group’s album of the same name, the film features CIX members exploring dark themes, including bullying, violence, societal abandonment, and death.
Michele, Emanuele and Ornella. Three lives that cross for an existential void that they try to fill with addictions: some from drugs and from Botox, some from their mother and from the disastrous family context and those from their sexual impulses perhaps never really explicit. Each of these figures seeks their own place in the world by asking to be loved.
A company provides a service of sending people duplicates of themselves that work for them, run their errands, and do their chores, but that service costs.
Amaia lives with her deeply depressed mother in an inner-city apartment. With no family or friends close by, she desperately seeks out her absent father. Believing that mystical powers and a mysterious woman can reconnect them, Amaia goes to extreme lengths to win her attention and friendship. When the woman visits the family home, she becomes a familiar and welcome playmate for Amaia but also carries the hard truth of her father’s absence. The young mother and daughter cannot pretend any longer and will have to decide if they can continue living with each other.
The 3rd film of the series this time White Forehead is trapped by the Octopussy and Monkey who is the hero will go to save her.
It's a story about a lonely and scared boy who locked himself in his small room, but inspired by Okami (wolf), he overcomes his fear and to go on a journey to explore the world outside of his room and finds strength in himself at the end.
In a low-income neighborhood in Maracaibo, Julio plays "La Olla" with some children. His mother calls him into her house, causing him to suffer the penance of gambling. At home his stepfather reprimands him violently. Julio, tired of being a victim, makes the decision to be like those who beat him.
Youth, power and thirst of love connect three characters. Each of them loves his own and his own way. They are ready to do anything for love so their love is holy.
An isolated introverted man who lives an airstream talks to himself before going on a date with a pessimistic extraverted woman and has trouble communicating his thoughts. Meanwhile, he escapes to a fantasy where he has no problem connecting with her.
By the side of a dusty, deserted highway in the desert of Tatacoa, Colombia, Alirio and Raúl work under the blazing sun at a ranch that has been converted into a tire shop. The shop is also their home and their only company is Capitan, their dog, and a radio that never hushes.
Ten years later, the mystery of what happened to UK toddler Madeleine McCann endures. Her parents are convinced she was kidnapped while on vacation at a Portuguese resort, but the weight of suspicion soon crashes down on their shoulders.