Gaïjin

In Panama, 12-year-old Clara goes fishing for “mahi-mahi“ dolphinfish with her father. As they venture further from the shore, the unease he stirs in her grows increasingly oppressive.

Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.

The rules were: one day, one wheel, one shot (no editing). Valérie Massadian’s hypnotic short was made for Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum.

Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.

Dalia and Eli, both in their thirties, have built a safe bubble amid Beirut’s economic and social tensions as they plan their wedding. Days before the ceremony, Dalia begins experiencing hallucinations, feeling like a stranger in her own home. Sleep-deprived, she wonders into the mountains, where a nun from a nearby psychiatric hospital takes her in.

Amidst violence and chaos, a group of kids flees the violence of the adults, seeking refuge in an abandoned castle deep in the forest. As they navigate the intimate changes of their age, they try together to define their own codes and reinvent their world, far from the one they left behind.

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.

Johnny, a popular megachurch pastor, adopts Chinese Confucian values into his sermons and performs Shaolin-esque stunts as testimony of his strength from God. When Johnny becomes infatuated with Yang, his new disciple, it disturbs those around Johnny. Until one day, Yang goes missing.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Kigali, capital of Rwanda: a motor-bike taxi connects its passengers through the arteries, veins and vessels of the city, weaving a rhizome of relation along the threads of the night.