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In the heart of Hartford, North Carolina 1945, two young lovers attempt to keep their relationships intact. Odds are stacked against them but there love is unbreakable.

They are students at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual. For their final project, they decide to make a documentary about cocoa harvesting. They head into a forest to gather material for their film. However, it turns out the forest is sacred, and very strange things start happening while they are there.

Through brief conversations with an adaptive chatbot, a professor sees more clearly his own creativity and depression in this animated short. "GUSTER" is based on actual messages and poetry written by the app.

Mr Jackson who is a successful and devoted businessman dedicated all his time to his business and forgot to raise his children. He even gives a deaf ear to his wife Mrs Jackson. But as life has it, time quickly brought to the face of the Jackson's family what Mr Jackson implanted in his first son Ngwa.

A selfish young athlete is confronted by Coyote in an unexpected way.

A girl who is denied entrance into a prestigious arts academy succeeds her brother in a new way of life.

When Boyd dies and finds himself in the great beyond, he learns that his estranged son is about to make the worst decision of his life--and only Boyd can stop him.

A homeless young man with no health care lives with poorly treated medical issues. Pain manifests itself in human form stalking this suffering man.

A woman deals with feelings of loss through her connection with nature.

The Boy & The Braid

Erkam, a primary school student with dyslexia struggles to keep up with school.

Kaede, Ryota, Mana, Asahi, Haruka, Soshi, and Tatsumi were friends in high school. When they turned 22 years old, the six of them get together to visit their alma mater. They stop by the library and find a book on séance techniques, and then begin to perform "Kagome" necromancy. Kaede, who is the least enthusiastic, has a secret between her and Tatsumi, who died before graduation.

In 72 hours is a thought-provoking movie on the realities of young people affected by war, violence, murder and rape in inhabitable conditions hoping for peace.

Two teenage boys invest in making illegal soap until things go south and chaos wreaks havoc.

A being that has only bodily existence, an object used to satisfy needs and desires. On the screen, Lúcia preserves only a distant look that hides screams, fears and explosions. She is always ostracized and silenced by the sexist society that at no time considers her opinion and desires. Lucia is the woman's silent report associated with a role or function without the right to be, to think or to express opinions.

A 17th-century folk tale about four thieves trying to survive in a corrupt world during the Song Dynasty (10th-13th century) is the unusual source material for this blinding debut. The timeless sources that director Ma Lanhua mines also comprise French comedy, Chinese opera and contemporary (performance) art. Ma also utilises cinema's history, particularly the early, silent era with title cards, colours reminiscent of hand-coloured films and special effects from the arsenal of film pioneer Georges Meliès.

With a party at seven and one last delivery, Kara burns both rubber and bridges to make both ends meet.

Six of the most coolest and most popular kids in their school were tasked with creating a legendary short film detailing the connections between P.E and Maths. The results were considered sublime.

"Can one describe a landscape well if one does not travel it from top to bottom, from the earth to the sky, and then from the sky to the earth," asks Jean-Luc Godard, sampled on "Being"? With a minimum of imagination, it evokes landscapes, this electronic crossover with slow tempos (the boy admits to finding it interesting to play with time). It also exudes a certain melancholy, never lacks groove, and even becomes sensual at times.

A simple crossword puzzle of empty squares is immersing an old man to the point of reliving his own life all over again. Will it help him to make sense of it all?

In an alternate society, where everyone is given a death date, a woman clings to both her relationship with her husband, and her own life, the day before her scheduled termination.

Surip, 12 years old, wanted to wash his mother's feet before Hari Raya, but had to wash his father's feet instead.

A Philadelphia vampire longs for warmth after wasting his summer. A 2019 University of the Arts senior animation thesis created by Nick Fulfaro.

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A forceful reflection of the situation of insecurity and violence experienced by thousands of women in Mexico.

What seemed to be a young couple's trivial uneasiness is redefined as a result of important news: Jéssica is pregnant and reveals it to Zói. While she seeks warmth and dialogue, he turns to a reflective state of mind further enhanced by the uncertainties of job hunting. Nonetheless, the women around him become decisive in the task of making him see the root cause of the problem: the cycle of paternal absence that he himself went through in the past but now is in a position to change.

Jaime is a family father that recently found out that his son, Dani, is transgender. In the process of trying to understand the situation, Jaime battles with his own identity crisis.

First short film by Sergio Saravia

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

Zumbalu is a comedy film that was made in the ghettos of Kampala Uganda, East Africa. It was written by Nsamba M. Walumbe, directed and produced by Geofrey King. The film has allegedly won various awards, for its wonderful story about life of the kids in orphanages.

Immersive short film, through a monologue we explore the mind of a person aligned in an increasingly chaotic world

Upon his release from prison, a big-time street hustler returns home to pick up where he left off, but his adversary is bent on revenge and domination.

Vicky, a young Chinese mural painter, works at the Warner Bros. World construction site in Abu Dhabi. In a moment of heightened emotion, Vicky, her friends, and a filmmaker come together in a fleeting shared space, weaving dreams and imaginations. As the narrator reflects on the daily lives of Vicky and her friends, she strives to unravel the subtle, enigmatic bonds that connect them.

The hero hurries to his native village to celebrate the birth of his long-awaited grandson, but on the way he meets border guards. For the capture of the offender, they are entitled to a bonus, and therefore they do not want to let the old man go to his loved ones.

Mine of Inferru (Hell in the Sardinian language), Sardinia. Second half of the twentieth century. Sick and weary, an elderly miner gets buried by a landslide while mining a gallery. Suspended within a time-void between life and approaching death, the man describes the world of Inferru through an imaginative existential monologue, blending past, present, and sombre forebodings regarding the future. This film only employs archive footage in its depiction of a mesmerising trip across the final desperate, crazed and yet highly lucid thoughts of its protagonist, who tries to put a permanent end to his reckoning with society and his own conscience.

The story is not about love. A man falls in love with a young girl, but he is already over 50.

A young girl tries to escape another unwanted encounter with her priest uncle when she goes with her mother to church for confession.

Filmed over a three-year period, the film Radical Acts of Love chronicles Linda Folley’s struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s. The film tells the story of Linda, a master programmer, pilot, scientist, and philanthropist, who was diagnosed with the disease at 52. Stories are woven together with interviews from Linda’s wife and film coproducer Camila Faraday, friends, and family, as well as home movies captured prior to Linda’s diagnosis.

We can see things differently when we see things from different angles.

Santiago meets Paulina at a party. Love is a cycle and both will fall into it a second, third, or perhaps fifth time. Their relationship could last forever or, more likely, they will only become one more visit in each other's lives.

Character X has been living alone in a country house for several years, gone mad over time, now spending his day-to-day life with an imaginary company of ghosts.

After a long break, brilliant artist and director Bogdan Dziworski is back making a new film. As he works, a unique relationship develops between the director and his young cinematographer, Paweł.

In a chronically stressed society, a teenage spree killer is born. Based on a true story.

A woman ends her relationship in her own way.

Every few months, Ana is sent to Yiwu to replenish the shelves of a 1$ store with plastic trinkets and toys. During one of these trips, disillusioned with her life, she starts to fantasize a way out.

Two young adults in Shanghai, living separate lives, do what they can to break out of their postmodern loneliness. Bin, from the town of Dali, goes to Shanghai to escape a monotonous life. Meanwhile, Qin has a relatively rich family, does nothing all day, and usually feels depressed for no reason. Their two worlds overlap in the least consequential of ways, also seemingly the most substantial.

Rahmat and Aziza are in a relationship – not a happy one

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.

On the outskirts of a utopian city where only perfect health and wholeness are accepted, a mute cripple and his autistic brother smuggle resources to an outcast community.

A father who has lost his wife and children in the war in his country has been stuck in his own world in another country and the pain keeps hurt him every day.

A man, returning home, has a car accident.

A delicious, modernist queer daydream reinterpreting the 60’s classic song “Cousin Jane” by the Troggs, this film imagines what a non-binary and non-conforming world could look like.

Unsatisfied with his his place in New York's art scene, Artist Peter Bjorn relocates to Berlin in search of change. Meanwhile in a remote Polish village, Alicia prepares to become a nun but, feeling home in nature, her reveries continually distract her from her religious path. Both lost in their own ways, their friendship leads them to yet another new beginning.