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Scherwitz just lost custody of his son.
Moda Kavida Vaatavarana is a youthful romantic thriller centered around two couples who arrive at a scenic resort, each carrying their own emotional baggage and untold stories. As relationships are tested and unexpected connections emerge, a series of mysterious events unfold, leading to suspense, romance, humor, and surprising twists that change their lives forever.
After finding a forgotten box of memories, a young woman finds herself surrounded by recollections of a seemingly distant phase of her life. Revisiting objects, photographs, and moments preserved by time, old feelings resurface, transforming her relationship with the past. Between affectionate memories and an unsettling sense of presence, she embarks on a journey where longing, maturity, and grief walk side by side.
María Finojosa, wife of Spanish settler Juan de Cervantes, tunes into the fragile memory of the exact moment when her husband became obsessed with founding a town that would perpetuate his family name. In the middle of the 19th century, in the mountains of Costa Rica, María's memory of her husband's Quixote-like delusions, unravels like the reel of an old film, projected onto the persistent rain and the constant lurking of the cracks of fiction.
Benjamin, with a history of financial scamming, moves to the Highlands for a fresh start. New name, new identity. After volunteering at the local chess club, will he integrate himself into the new community - or fall back into old ways?
Alma has a crush on Yoav who works at the local pet shop. But she can’t do anything without her best friend Tamar who has to approve even her text messages. After her phone gets broken, and she is gifted a goldfish by Yoav - things begin to unravel
Wang Yunchan, a 28-year-old woman who has drifted in Beijing for a decade, has long struggled to survive on the fringes of the city. She decides to go back to her hometown to find her childhood friend Liu Xiaolu. However, the transformed hometown, altered old classmates and a completely changed Liu Xiaolu make her realize for the first time that she is destined to live a migratory life.
Inspired by Hikmat Ziya‘s work.
A young man looking for an escape from loneliness is tempted by an unknown force.
28 hours after the Rage virus began to spread a group of young people begin to travel to a new safe space
Benedicte constantly tries to escape her monotonous life by daydreaming about a warmer, kinder world. On yet another predictable day at work, she is confronted by a client for making a bad sandwich. After being reprimanded by her boss, she remakes the sandwich while checking for the time left to go home, sleep, and dream about tying both her manager and the client to a tree as she roams freely. The next morning, she wakes up to her alarm ringing... realizing that she had overslept and was late for work this time.
Time ascends as history sinks. Thirty-two upward-tilting shots, across British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, excavate histories of Indigenous presence, colonial violence, and ecological transformation. As image fades from colour to monochrome and sound descends against the camera’s rise, chronology collapses. Archival images, composite landscapes, and a descending sonic register unsettle linear narration, reframing the present as accumulated residue, and the land emerges as an unresolved stratigraphic archive, where history persists vertically beneath contemporary space.
Overcoming a mid life crisis, an unlikely character inadvertently creates one of the world's hardest ultramarathons. This intrepid adventure becomes a journey into humanity’s indomitable spirit.
Not Even The Sun is an intimate portrait of a young woman experiencing the end of a relationship in a foreign land. Told from the perspective of the female protagonist (Deragh Campbell), the precarious living situation of a young Canadian woman and the growing tension between her and her boyfriend (Santiago Blanco Choya) finally reach a breaking point in rural Spain.
Four friends (after a night of partying) decide to summon a demon. Now it's a race against the clock as Demon tries to make it on time.
Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena looks into the case of a mysterious broadcast that might have possibly led to the deaths of 4 families in the town of Lander in May 1986.
