Rio Window tells the story of a Brazilian heroine: an 80-year-old Black woman who refused to accept the reality unfolding outside her apartment window in Copacabana. In 2003, she bought a camera to record and expose the activities of organized crime and police corruption. The videotapes reached reporter Fábio Gusmão, who helped Dona Vitória enter the witness protection program and trigger an investigation that led to the arrest of 48 criminals, including nine police officers. Her real name and face were kept secret for 17 years.
A farmer's belly propels him into an extraordinary world, turning Homo Sapiens to Homo Umbilicus.
A young boy attempts to capture his grandma's story in the brief window before she must go.
When the government doesn't act enough, two friends part ways as one is sent on a mission to orbit the earth, while the other has to stay.
Uncle Tony feels increasingly abandoned by his nephews, who have grown up and become independent. Then, one day, a baby is left on his doorstep. Uncertain of what to do, he calls on them, and together they hatch wild schemes to find the child's parents.
Seher, living in a container camp in Antakya after the earthquake, finds herself chasing after the aid supplies she missed while trying to find a way to reissue her lost university exam entrance document the night before the exam.
After the father's disappearance, a mother and her son take refuge in an isolated house between the mountain and the lake. In confinement, time seems suspended as they await an impossible return. Amid silence and memories, grief unfolds in its many layers, transforming the pain of absence into an intimate experience of the bittersweet, melancholy process of saying goodbye.
La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows Lili, a teenage girl marked by innocence and vulnerability, as she is drawn into the city’s underworld after encountering a man who exploits her circumstances. Told through impressionistic visual style rather than dialogue, the film presents a tragic portrait of social marginalization and moral collapse within an urban environment.
A frustrated jazz trumpeter rehearsing for an audition accidentally awakens an invisible ghost with the power to manipulate sound. The ghost promises to turn him into a virtuoso in exchange for his help unearthing an ancient treasure buried deep in the mountains. But what begins as a great deal soon becomes a dangerous adventure leading toward a dark secret.
A walk through memory as an attempt to say to someone gone what was left unsaid.
After years apart, 12 year-old Maya returns to India with her mother to reunite with her father - a sandmining business man. Immersed in a world where labour, legacy and extraction collide, she forms a fragile bond with Kiran, a young worker. After a tragic event, a police investigation turns Maya into a key witness, with her father relying on her to absolve him. Torn between loyalty and a growing unease she cannot name, Maya begins searching for the truth. As her mother quietly unravels, Maya uncovers a pattern of silence, exploitation and repeated harm forcing her to confront her father's deception and the family's complicity she must choose to break.
Morgan is so happy when Elaine is happy, nobody better get in the way of that...
A young film student joins a foreign horror film shooting in the woods, only to realize she can’t understand the language—or the dark rituals that may claim her as their final sacrifice.
The ambitious captain of a failing social netball team attempts to fix their losing streak with a spell, but it may cost the team their friendship.
After serving a prison sentence, 40-year old Malcolm is intent on rebuilding his life. He looks for purpose in his late brother’s passion for running and trains to run a full marathon. Confronted with unresolved family expectations, a judgemental society and destructive self-loathing, can Malcolm keep pace, or will he succumb to the unrelenting tempo of society?
Zekai, a Shantou-born boy who works in Shenzhen, decides to return to hometown and take his girlfriend to meet his mother.
Kneading the back of an elderly man, Evie, the new masseuse at the Russian & Turkish bathhouse, finds her mind drifting from the steam room’s promise of serenity toward an absurd vision of grief.
