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Alexander, a young scriptwriter, deals with his family trauma by writing a script about the night he was taken out of the closet. By immersing himself in writing, Alexander imagines an alternate version of that family conflict, finding a way to express himself and heal emotionally.
Emi must deal with the disappearance of his parents into another dimension after a magic trick spirals out of control.
Han-byeol and Hye-seong are working as interns at a company. For a long time, Han-byeol dreamed of becoming a singer, and Hye-seong dreamed of becoming a musical actor. Receiving a sudden full-time job offer, they agonize between dreams and reality.
By a quiet gas station in rural Buenos Aires, a young kid, Ernesto, confesses to his friend that he wants to be a dancer when he grows up. But in the patriarchal flatlands of Argentina, dancing isn't really an option. After being harassed by drivers by, Ernesto hides in the bathroom where he magically runs into a broken-hearted drag queen, Ruby. Charmingly mischievous, Ruby challenges him to a fateful dance off; one that will ultimately and forever encourage him to follow his dancing dreams.
The Cordura Island lighthouse keeper is left alone when his companion leaves for the mainland. On a stormy night he finds a letter. The story it tells and his fear of the loneliness at night will take him to the limits of madness.
According to WHO close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year. So what happens when there is a lock on the world. A world you already fought so hard to stay in. What happens when you are forced to be in that one place you feel the most unsafe. What happens when the help you desperately needed, the ones you needed, the places you needed are "no longer" there - And it lasts and it lasts. What happens? 800 001 happens and more.
Depressed after losing her husband, Harlem finds new love in the arms of a flashy drug dealer, but her dream guy quickly turns into a nightmare.
An isolated elderly woman haunted by dreams of howling coyotes begins to form fleeting connections with strangers in her daily routine — slowly discovering that community can be built from the smallest moments of recognition.
Teodors sees a man one day. It soon turns out that this person is connected to him and his actions.
In 1998, the President of Colombia dared to demilitarise a zone to carry out peace negotiations with the FARC-EP guerrilla group, but chaos erupted. A pivotal 2000 attack shifted the tide. Crafted solely from news archives, this film presents the atrocious event that changed the country's destiny.
Having come to visit a friend, Zhanna encounters a force which she can’t stand up against.
On the brink of her last day on Earth before being forced to return to her planet of origin, a young woman must find a way to stay in her new home. As her options begin to run out, she grapples with the moral question of how far she is willing to go in order to achieve her goal.
With the help of a friend, Adam searches through his subconscious hoping to free himself from a traumatic event that has left him mentally imprisoned for months.
From the music of Tunisian composer Amine Bouhafa, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase crafts a story of two young people ruminating on existence and life in a city. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
Nanny Asiah, an elderly woman who makes a living by selling sugar, makes a promise to herself after her son's execution in the Kurdistan prison that if she can stop someone from retribution (execution), she will dance and rejoice until the morning call to prayer.
A woman's dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town.
A missing wallet threatens to destroy a teenager’s life.
Teacher Majer is released from prison under an amnesty. His elementary school classmate Ivan, who lives in a Roma ghetto, takes him into his home. Majer has no family. He has no one left, so he welcomes Ivan's offer. Ivan tells Majer that he has decided to help him mainly because he needs to reopen the school where Majer used to teach and briefly served as principal. Living in the ghetto, Ivan is familiar with the problems of his community and knows that the closure of their beloved school has not been good for them. Majer begins to reach out to his former colleagues and, above all, his students to ask for their help. Many of his students also have children of their own. He experiences a number of comical situations with them. However, he has no idea that he is still being watched by Dostál, the eldest member of the mafia family, who knows that Majer has been released and decides to avenge his son and grandson.
Shane Lucas, an ex-Yakuza member and 4th degree black belt in Judo, is hunted down at his local dojo in Los Angeles 1985 by his long-time rival, Elias Da Rosa and his crew members from the same crime family. Shane is threatened to come back to the Yakuza or would suffer the consequence of not.
An ex-combatant is admitted to a psychiatric facility due to what happened in the Falklands War. During his stay in that institution, he will find a purpose to fight against the treatments that tend to harm him.
George and Anne go to their estranged father's apartment after he dies by suicide. As they clean up the place, they discover more than they expected.
Set in cosmopolitan London, Aikya, a British-Indian blogger believes she is the only person that exists in the world. Continuing her daily life convinced that every interaction with another is purely a construct in her own world, her beliefs and existence are shattered after she witnesses the ultimately suicide of a neighbour. Thrust into a world unknown, Aikya must process unfounded human emotions, grapple with her solipsism and engage with the idea that she may not be alone after all.
Director Jay mysteriously disappears in 2019 and leaves behind a hard disc with the film “No Where, Now Here”. Actress Eva follows his steps to find him after she met Jay at the film shoot in 2018 film.
Three generations of women use technology and memory to bring love and humanity into a desolate, dystopian wasteland. A mother and grandmother share the experience of discovering the forest, rain, and fresh air for the first time with a young girl who has only known a world where none of these exist anymore.
A teenager finds new family after being abandoned by her own.
Inexplicably abandoned by his parents on an empty, windswept beach, a young man embarks on a surreal journey through time and contemplation of his very own mortality.
Amina wants to reconcile with her dying husband. When his younger former lover arrives to save him and get back together with Manda, Amina plans to stop the woman in her tracks.
Kelas Bintang is back with this pack of drama called Spong Part 2.
Dre Shaw reluctantly puts his life as a social media rising star on hold to return home for a family wedding, only to go from family liability to savior.
In a near-future Romania, young Ozana (Silvana Mihai) is chosen to work as a food taster for the leader of forces occupying her country. The sole rule for her to follow is that she must never look this man in the eye.
Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner's tetralogy, served up by Dmitri Tcherniakov's daring staging and Christian Thielemann's virtuoso musical direction.
The unwritten rules of a house taken force the protagonist to survive to the edge of the existential precipice.A metaphor about a reality that we see daily, but that also functions as a laboratory for human behavior.
A planned robbery, an unplanned murder. The film is based on notes taken after a meeting with one of the convicts.
A biopic of Krishnarao Ganpatrav Sable, akka Shahir Sable.
Fighting to keep her family together, Trina steps into the underground world of drug trafficking. She enlists her two friends to become transporters.
A young couple is struck with tragedy when Catalina suddenly dies of tuberculosis, leading a depressed Rosauro to commit a disturbing act. Based on the song by Julio Jaramillo.
A portrait of the community of Erto, in the Dolomites, which 60 years ago suffered a huge human disaster, due to external ambition and avidity, and still fights for dignity and recognition. Over 10 years, we see the efforts of the community splinter due to the proposal of an art installation on the dam, at the origin of the disaster. While for the mayor and the art curator it could be a way for the village to look forward, many alert it would be another step in making the people forget the tragedy.
This film is based on the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's (German: 4 February 1906 - 9 April 1945) and his struggle against the Third Reich. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church movement. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler's genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp. Bonhoeffer was accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and was then quickly tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office). He was hanged on 9 April 1945, four weeks before the surrender of the Third Reich.
The last three years in the life of entrepreneur Raul Gardini (1933—1993).
Sol and Cami are best friends. Sol goes to Cami's house, trying to get her out and hang with their old friends. This is not easy as it seems, and music, the passion that bonds them, could be the solution.
On a slow morning near the outskirts of a Danish city, two brothers learn to take care of themselves. Due to their neglectful mother, the older brother feels the need to protect his younger sibling from the struggles of a dysfunctional family.
Fifty years before humanity's extinction due to rising temperatures, a young woman seeks help from a wealthy, influential man to save her dying grandfather after their fan breaks. He agrees — but at a price.
On his case to cut down gang activities in his city, Matthew Fletcher teams up with an unlikely ally, Ace, a rival gangster who seeks to take out the dominating Chapman family run by Al Alderman and Matt's very own brother, Daniel Fletcher, as the pair for goes confronting the rival family, but not without dire consequences.
The story of a woman's changing life. A striking allegory on the maternal instinct to sacrifice reminiscent of classic fairytales.
Students at an academy of singing, dance, and music are subjected to strict rules and arduous challenges in an atmosphere of fierce rivalry as they pursue the dream of becoming show business stars. The clandestine relationship of Lisa and Damiano is likely to cost them the opportunity to participate in the final contest and will have to decide whether to sacrifice love to achieve success.
At the house of an elderly childless couple, about seventy years old, with poor health, living in a small village, unknown people leave a six-month-old baby. An old man and an old woman are going to hand over the child to the authorities. But having heard that young children are being sold for organs, they decide to leave the child to themselves. Caring for a baby turns the lives of older people in a completely different direction. They have an interest in life.
Nula, the only child of an estranged father, tries to encourage her mother to divorce but her mother is afraid of the mockery and stigma that comes with divorce within their society. As her father’s abuse of her mother worsens, Nula begins to lose hope. Will her mother overcome her fear to save Nula and herself?
When Shira returns home after years abroad, she comes face to face with Lior – her childhood best friend and the man at the center of a night that changed everything. He’s certain they shared love. She’s certain it was assault. A tense, intimate drama exploring memory, consent, and the fragile line between truth and perception.
Grandpa Boonmee is a former retired soldier often drinks liquor, hot-tempered and quarrels with Grandmother Rabieb, who is his wife.
A young couple must face sacrifices when one of them receives a better opportunity elsewhere, throwing the relationship into jeopardy.
The movie narrates a story of a man who unknowingly involved in a situation, never expecting that to happen. He then loses even the opportunity to explain what happened, and how he tries to survive is the story.
When victimized by the other boys in a cabin, a boy must pick his poison: stay inside and fight his demons, or flee and face the apocalyptic landscape that real monsters have infested.
When a dying man asks his brother to go on a hike in the mountains, a disagreement about their troubled childhood risks both their lives.
Detectives, Lewis Burns and Jack Ward investigate the murder of Howard Klendson leading them down a dark and ultimately destructive path, which will answer questions of Burns' place on the police force.