The Story of the Cowboy in Bahrain follows a Bahraini man whose fascination with American cowboy culture has become part of his everyday life. Through his experience, the documentary looks at how a passion born far from its original setting can cross borders and take on a new meaning. The film captures an unusual meeting of cultures and the personal identity that grows from it.
Trapped in isolation, a crime novelist becomes consumed by the world of his final manuscript as the boundaries between fiction and reality slowly dissolve. Haunted by guilt, loss, and the search for truth, he is forced into a confrontation that may become the final chapter of his life.
Inside a silent home, presence slowly turns into absence. As time distorts and emotions fade, what once felt alive begins to disappear.
Joe and Mike are 2 brothers opening a wine bar, there’s just one problem… they don’t have any wine. When a mislabeled box leaves them with a mountain of peanuts instead, the brothers scramble to save their opening night and an escalating series of disasters leads to everything ultimately falling apart.
Yoonjae orders a Tsai Ming-Liang DVD, but an adult video arrives with it. When he visits the store to ask what happened, he meets Juwon. Beyond their awkward distance, the two begin to fill the empty spaces in each other’s lives.
Struck by a sudden Annunciation, Seokmo, a virgin, visits a gynecology clinic seeking an illegal abortion.
Hooja and Mårdis are two upstanding men from the Malmfälten region with grand plans—and a complete lack of a sense of direction. Tasked with transporting the ashes of a relative’s deceased elkhound along the Torne River, they embark on a journey for which they are neither prepared nor fully grasp the magnitude: they are to discover the soul of the Torne Valley. In the back: an urn. In the front seat: two men doing their absolute best. Ahead of them: encounters with the very best the Torne Valley has to offer.
Dai, a middle school student, wants to curse the person responsible for killing Norangi, a stray cat he dearly loved. With the help of Belzerok, a conversational AI, he attempts to summon Nekphoros, the legendary great demon of cats. However, his devout Catholic grandmother, Gyeongja, who lives with him, keeps interfering with the summoning ritual.
Hanmin and Jojo live together. One day, without warning, Jojo loses the ability to eat hamburgers. Soon after, sushi becomes impossible. Finally, even peas. Now, Jojo stops eating altogether. Believing that Jojo is slowly dying, Hanmin desperately searches for something Jojo can still consume and at last, finds it.
The sands of Haeundae Beach seem like a landscape that has always been there. Yet the elders who grew up here remember a different sand, silver in color. That sand was replaced, and even the fact of its replacement was erased. Following British naval charts, colonial-era promotional leaflets, military aerial photographs, and contemporary tourist postcards, the film reveals that the place we now call Haeundae is a sediment of images selected by outside gazes.
For middle schooler Miyeon, the Jungang Baduk (Go) Club in her neighborhood is her only refuge. But when the owner Myungkyun receives a terminal diagnosis, the club faces closure, and Jiho, who works there part-time, proposes that Miyeon take an entrance test at another baduk academy.
It’s Chinese New year in Wellington, and Daniel, a Chinese-Pākehā teenager, is feeling insecure about being half Chinese. After being bullied by his Chinese peers, he realises how out of touch he is with his own culture and begins to feel lost within his mixed identity. All Daniel wants is to get closer to his crush Kaya, a headstrong Chinese girl, but his insecurities are getting in his way. How will Daniel find the courage to be proud of his mixed identity and confess to his crush?
Two young siblings are happily at play in their blanket fort, until an ominous shadow with a life of its own threatens their safe heaven. As they hunt the shadow down through a dark deserted house, make belief melts into reality and the memory of that night bleeds across timelines.
When Vonk Vlok, a Boksburg mechanic, unexpectedly appears in the infamous Epstein files, his family's quiet existence is thrown into total chaos. As he tries to explain how he got involved in the scandal, family problems, social media drama and old secrets come together to lead to a collision of epic proportions.
A married couple's life is shattered by a premature loss. From that grief a conflict is born, and the two lovers no longer seem able to communicate. The loss hangs suspended between them: on one side, a woman who needs love to start living again; on the other, an astronaut frightened by the immensity of this pain, who sees the cosmos as a refuge.
Floyd's sleep is disrupted by disturbing phone calls that escalate from annoying to menacing when he realizes a doppelgänger may be nearby.
