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17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
When Tina's teenage daughter doesn't return home from a sleepover with her closest friends, she goes on a frantic hunt to find her before it's too late. In the process, she unravels dark secrets of a forbidden romance and a tryst among BFFs.
Yuni, a research student, opens a free learning class for children in Kampung Degong. Raka, a local youth who supports her, provides some needed books for the children. Terror begins to haunt Yuni. Despite warnings, Yuni refuses to give up and seeks to uncover the truth behind the strangeness.
Two decades after the terrifying events in Jatijajar, the evil spirit Jin Ummu Sibyan returns—this time in the village of Giritirto. After a heated argument following a football match, a group of kids unknowingly unleashes the ancient terror with a careless curse at dusk. Possession follows, and the nightmare begins again.
After making plans to meet later that evening, four friends spend the day caught in a chain of bizarre and unexpected events. A dark comedy exploring perspective, absurdity and the strange ways people experience misfortune.
Reality Fatigue tells the story of Adam, a young man returning to his childhood home. In his dusty, neglected room, his mother smokes and longingly looks at pictures of him as a child. But when he enters, the world changes. The room is clean, his mom is holding a pen instead of a cigarette, and he has become a child, identical to the picture she was just looking at. They hug and all seems well, but Adam and his mom can’t keep reality at bay forever…
A grieving mother is haunted by the tragic loss of her daughter in a car accident that left her abusive husband in a coma. As she battles a surreal descent into darkness, her sleepwalking episodes intensify. Plagued by haunting visions of her husband inside their home, she grapples with the blurred lines between reality and nightmare.
1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. Although he is no longer a child and not yet an adult, the film follows his reflections and doubts about identity, friendship, family, and his questions about religion, desire, and love.
Popular blogger Vlad tries to attract attention to his concert in an original way - he puts himself up for auction. The lot immediately goes to the son of a rich businessman. Now Vlad is obliged to entertain Borya for a whole week. All attempts to break the contract run into huge fines, and then Vlad decides to really piss off Borya and make a video blog out of his life. In response, Borya arranges more and more new challenges for him.
A young couple in 1973. Iria is a migrant worker from Spain; Hajo is a student from Germany. When Iria’s mother becomes terminally ill, they decide to leave Köln and take her back to Galicia. Their road trip leads them through a variety of social and political systems that existed in the 1970s, while their relationship comes to reflect the zeitgeist.
On Kate's 21st birthday camping trip, her friends encounter Piglet, a monstrous human-pig hybrid who brutally murders one of them. They uncover Piglet's origins and Kate must confront her past to survive the relentless killer.
A TikTok megastar spirals after one cruel comment, stalking her troll in a descent that blurs fame, obsession, and revenge.
A young talented musician, Alina, gets a chance to build a career abroad. However, her plans change when she learns that her grandmother, Nuria, suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Returning to her homeland of Tatarstan, Alina tries to restore her grandmother's memory and fulfill her wish—to find the "treasure" buried in her native village. The problem, however, is that the village has long been flooded.
After what seemed like an insignificant argument, Marta and Antonio separate. He, a promising chef, takes refuge in his kitchen; she, in her silence, begins to feel something more than sadness: she has lost her appetite… and not only because of heartbreak. When she discovers that there is a health problem behind it, everything takes an unexpected turn: food tastes better, music reaches her like never before, and desire awakens her will to live without fear.
Leila, an 18-year-old girl who is on the brink of adulthood. As the pressure of her family's expectations grows, Leila has to choose between a life laid out for her or freedom, risking everything she loves for a life that's truly hers.
The teacher is invited by someone she likes to join a class reunion. They play a game to invite ghosts to make friends, unaware that curses are placed upon them. There is a reason for the malevolence.
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
