This film muses on themes of womanhood and faith in a Middle Eastern context.
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Jules, 18 years old, reluctantly spends his holidays in the naturist campsite of his childhood. He is torn between his attraction for the beautiful Karim, a seasonal worker on the textile beach, and the depression of his mother Adèle, who refuses to let him grow up.
Nuclear Family
This film is a rural inspirational comedy, telling the story of retired athlete Xiao Li, led by his father, to lead the village girl football team to win the game and save the school. The film shows people's affection, love, teacher-student relationship and other moving friendships in the common struggle for a better life, and expresses the ideological connotation of working hard to get a good life.
My Crazy Old Father
A Fulani milkmaid confronts religious extremists in rural Sub-Saharan Africa in a quest to locate her missing sister, but efforts to recapture her disrupted past prove complicated.
The Milkmaid
Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the law gets tested by his ex-convict brother Joe who is in desperate need of his help.
Broken Law
The film is all about Suzan, an ailing nun, who is reminiscing over two incidents of her life.
Din Ratrir Golpo
It follows the story of Jane Pineda, a washed-up actress and former child star whose career hits rock bottom. Struggling to get movie roles and trying to escape from a big scandal, Jane seeks comfort in alcohol. She then meets Francis who’s a vocalist of a band.
On Vodka, Beers, and Regrets
The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a provisional interim building in Berlin, the climate catastrophe becomes the subject of legal proceedings. Two lawyers represent 31 countries of the global South, which are doomed to destruction without the support of the international community.
Ökozid
'Akhrot' - a lucid diegesis of a common individual suffering from dementia, a form of memory disorder. Remembrance is a natural human instinct, without which a mind is nothing but a blank slate making it vulnerable and feeble. The film revolves around such a character, his helplessness and his susceptible mental condition making him exposed to an inescapable fate.
Akhrot
A tragic scene takes place between a mother and daughter outside an animal clinic. Many observe the scene and pass by, but only one dares to really be there. The film is to honor the one.
Being There
Berta and Hugo are two strangers who find each other in a hotel room. Their lives have nothing in common... but they are closer than they appear.
Una mujer completa
An engaging music video, an explosion about the present and the future. A cry of resistance in the midst of neglect. A reflection of our society in pieces.
Sangue no Asfalto
The young detective faces a difficult dilemma, which outcome will determine his future career.
Country Can Sleep in Peace
A Taiwanese grandma (Ahma) has to travel from a rural town in central Taiwan to the capital city of Taipei in the north to pull Alan, her American-born grandson, out of jail before he gets deported by a vindictive police officer.
Ahma & Alan
An elderly woman lies on her deathbed, ignored by her various family members as they wait around the house for her to die. After her death, the family is forced to reckon with the aftermath of her seemingly inconvenient demise and the impact of her questionable personal legacy.
Memento Mori
The ice caps are melting, there’s overpopulation, political unrest; everything’s going to hell in a handcart – why on earth would someone bring a baby into this world? Directed by Matthew Warchus, Claire Foy and Matt Smith perform a socially distanced version of Duncan Macmillan’s hilarious emotional rollercoaster of a play about a couple wrestling with life’s biggest dilemmas live from The Old Vic.
Lungs
In a future where the Arab world is brutally divided, the young revolutionary Mariam is trying hard to distinguish friend from foe as she clashes with her leader Kamal right ahead of her camp’s biggest battle against a ruthless enemy.
Neon Ashes
A car belonging to a suspected hit-and-run driver has been spotted outside a swimming pool complex and the police are there to arrest the fugitive.
Swimmer
Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.
Dirty
Yanush grew up in a conservative Romani community in a small Ukrainian town. He is about to get married, just what his parents want. However, Yanush is gay and he is in love with another young man, Pasha. Together they decide to sneak away from the wedding and leave town, but can Yanush really do it?
Chachó
Daughter tries to move from her mother's house to start her own life as an adult. Mom takes it too hard, and one day she finds a new daughter in her garage. Mother and daughter neverending relationship circle.
Open Up, It's Mom
Estilhaços
As Ayu and Ditto finally transition from best friends to newlyweds, a quick pregnancy creates uncertainty for the future of their young marriage.
#FriendButMarried 2
A short film by Simon Price.
Going Away
1975, Devon. Nine year old Jazmin Hughes goes missing. 15 years later, her body is found and her parents are thrown into grief once again.
From the Ground
Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?
A Son
A man gets stuck in a time loop after waking up.
The Loop
Officer Carl Thomas was revered by his colleagues for his fearlessness at going after the bad guys, but Thomas had a dark side. In Dispatched, you will learn how God changed the heart of a street-hardened cop into an ambassador of God's love, and how through God, an entire community was changed.
Dispatched
Who Will You Be When the World Ends? - When it is announced that the world will end in 7 years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to her in life and what she is willing to sacrifice to reach her goals.
The Last Earth Girl
Story of a Cunning man named Mati, who escape his home town village rimau and goes to zazzau in order to look for the treasure left behind by his wealthy deceased father.
Mati at zazzau
Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives.
The Last Ones
A bag with over 600,000 euros in cash, just like that in a towed car: When Maren, who works at a car depot, finds the bag, she cannot resist the temptation. She takes the money for herself. Her husband Dennis is shocked. But he is in a wheelchair after an accident. It will be a long time before he can walk again, and whether the insurance will pay is uncertain. The unexpected money is a blessing and gives Maren and Dennis a real perspective.
Jackpot
The dancers Cassia, Lia and Neusa are fired from a popular auditorium program after completing thirty years of age. Months later, they arrange a meeting to make plans for the future and make an assessment of their careers, doubts and uncertainties that involve like three black artists, of solid formation. From then on, mismatches and new encounters will define trajectories. An Afro-Brazilian melodrama that deals with possibilities of existence and resistance.
Três Bailarinas
Every generation has its own entry and exit. They have their own crisis and celebrations. This is an attempt to bring and connect the dotted lines between the generations. The collectively carefree voyage of everyone's day is "Sunday."
Sunday - A Kannada Short Film
Ten-year-old Jo spends her days along the Shenandoah River with her best friend Selma, fishing, scrapping for metal–surviving. But when her abusive junkie stepdad dies, Jo decides, Selma in tow, to dump the body, steal the car, and set off across the country in search of her real dad, a legendary folk singer in Los Angeles.
Her Name Was Jo
Ima's biggest wish is to bear a child. Her husband Erik on the other hand seems to be objecting to this idea. With each passing day Ima's struggle becomes more of a burden which forces her to realize the only way to inner peace.
Mother
A unique cinema tour de force from Cinema eVerite', 'Flesh Is Heir To' is a psychological thriller delving into the feminine psyche and societal sexuality standards. The film is written and directed by critically acclaimed off-off Broadway writer/producer and filmmaker Dale A. Johnson.
Flesh Is Heir To
Yeon-ju is an assistant director who has been trying to be a writer-director for ten years. After being turned down her last script and assigned an unwanted side job in her home town by an executive, she seriously considers quitting all. To make things worse, her mother gets sick. She got stuck in an unwanted circumstance. But strange enough, the unwanted side job gives her a glimpse of hope. The project is about the last Kie-sang (the feudal age courtesan) San-ok, who was the most excellent artist. Somehow Yeon-ju feels connected with her. At the verge of giving up her dream and life altogether, Yeon-ju starts to write a new script with the help of San-ok in her fantasy.
Again
The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a past secret. The complicated web of relationships between the sisters, their Aunt Maureen, their absent mother, and Kay’s young daughter Billie, is only illuminated by the wedding. Gwen’s attempts to get Kay to take responsibility for her daughter highlights her own abandonment of her ex, Tom, leading them all to a not-so-perfect storm of a reception.
Little Orphans
Following the death of their mother, Susan seeks to support her sister Helen realise her dream of living a more independent life but encounters challenges along the way.
The Pursuit of Independence
Stephen is a socially awkward, middle-aged telemarketer and is desperately alone. At the suggestion of a co-worker, he goes out into the night to find a prostitute for "The Girlfriend Experience." He meets Christa, a streetwise call girl who's happy to fulfill his needs, and something unexpected happens. What starts as a business agreement blossoms into true love. But what happens when death enters the picture? How far would you go to keep the one person you've always wanted?
Her Name Was Christa
Battle of Wizardry
Late one night, Kate finishes her shift at a diner when she becomes victim to a regular customer in a violent attack. A sudden earthquake destroys the diner, trapping and forcing her to confront her attacker.
Aftershock
After being dragged to a party by her best friend, a girl desperately tries to find an escape to her own reality.
Buzzkill
17 avril 18h12
In duorggat doarggistit, four smallbirches (duorga) are cut by a lake on the tundra.The trees are stifled, and the twigs are taken.The trunks are left behind standing in the landscape.
Trembling Floors
How do we sustain the human spirit, hope and love in the face of a plague? Set in a dingy Lower East Side apartment in the 1980s, Beirut follows the story of Torch, a young man who is in quarantine after testing positive to a nameless disease. His girlfriend, refuses to leave him isolating alone. It’s raunchy, it’s real, it’s poetic; and it reminds us of the power of stories, and their role in fostering hope, solidarity and documentation of extraordinary times.
Beirut: An MCC Virtual TV Event
The life of Karsten, a mortician, isn’t going that well at the moment. Just in time for Christmas, his parents inform him during the festive dinner that they want to commit suicide together. In five days. Usually used to death, he tries everything to convince the dear mother Marion and the father Theodor, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, not to pursue their plan. But the conflict about the self-determined death opens up old wounds – and as Karsten’s own health deteriorates rapidly, it is no longer clear who needs to be saved.
Irgendwann ist auch mal gut
During a naive break-in, somewhere in a dystopian world, a woman discovers a hidden piece of art and develops a manic fascination for the forbidden.
Love Thy Neighbour
In a small Gaeltacht village in Ireland, a new viral app has everyone talking, 2 teens decide to give it a try see what all the fuss is about until their actions become irreversible. Gaiste was Nominated for best Irish Language film of 2021 at the IFTA Qualifying Fastnet Film Festival.
Gaiste
Geetha, a pregnant widow, goes to a government office as part of her long and continuous ordeal to get money from a government scheme that is hers. What seems to be a normal day of bureaucracy and corruption goes awry when she lands up with a bomb strapped to her stomach.
ACT-1978
Marek, a thirty year old introvert IT specialist, tries to fit into the crazy social life of his younger girlfriend Julka. After a nighttime fight they split and as Marek walks across a street, a car hits him…
Being Andrew
Over the course of 24 hours, five characters will face dilemmas suffocating through another day in their dead end worlds. Their lives will intersect as the story builds to a tragic climax for some and liberation for others.
Once Upon a Time in Tokyo
To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority, of the surrounding events. Beliefs still lie in the truth. Consciousness is still dominant at the level of illusion. The naive, savage, cruel, and selfish politics still prevail.
Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
Sara, a beautiful young girl, returns to an old abandoned mechanical workshop in the middle of nowhere to meet her unexpected confidant Ron Hopper; a mysterious being that has been anchored in the same place since always.
La Desgracia de Ron Hopper
Quand elle tombe
Victor and his little brother Jimmy manage to get by in an environment where their romantic misfortunes seem to be never-ending. But the arrival of Billie and her unbridled romanticism will shake both of the boys' beliefs to the core.
So Long Billie
An insight on a teen's drug dealing efforts in the East of London.
East
A young woman spots her mother at a dance club and struggles to find a way to connect, in this meditative short from FSU filmmaker Carrie Carusone.
Joining the Birds
Jiawei finds a mysterious vial in her late mother's fridge that transforms her into their ancestors and descendants.