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A man attempts to cross the street before his time.
A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted by memories of a once-happy family: his wife preparing breakfast, his son playing video games, and his daughter caring for their calico cat. Yuen finds himself unable to hate the living or forget the dead. As they confront life’s cruelty, will Yuen and his son’s strained relationship ever find redemption?
Prequel short film to “BUM” (2025)
When a rainstorm forces a young IT technician to stay longer than expected at an elderly woman's house, a routine service call turns into an afternoon of shared memories, unexpected conversations, and a meaningful connection between two generations.
A grieving man visits his wife's grave, where a mysterious woman hands him an envelope. He soon finds himself immersed in memories of the past, haunted by the strange stranger he met at the cemetery.
A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend.
During a seemingly ordinary school vacation, eight-year-old Diego struggles to understand why his older brother, Nicco, has suddenly become distant. While Diego clings to the simple rituals that once brought them together, Nicco retreats further into silence, carrying a pain no one around him fully sees. As memories of happier Julys blur with the present, Diego is forced to confront a reality beyond his understanding. Through the eyes of a child, JULY explores the quiet weight of depression, the bonds between siblings, and the small acts of love that can become lifelines in moments of darkness.
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.
A guy opens himself up in a therapy session.
Tristán is navigating his teenage years in an exceptional way: navigating his gender transition alongside his mum Virginia, his friends, his school and the Argentine State, whilst discovering his passion for drawing. But when the pressures of adulthood begin to mount and a shift in the political landscape threatens his rights, he is faced with a question: is it possible to be trans without suffering so much?
Max and Min are about to break up. They argue endlessly about dividing their possessions, including their cat, Meowzaki, whom they have named after their favorite artist Miyazaki Hayao. Max’s father Ramesh, who lost his wife and has since been suffering from insomnia, meets charming therapist Dhaara. Max’s grandfather Sridhar, secretly enjoys drinking with his new friend Jennifer at the nursing home.
A superstar Korean actor stranded in Vietnam ends up crossing paths with a sweet, ordinary barista-to-be, kicking off an unpredictable, heart-fluttery romance that shakes up both their worlds.
Amar is a creature of habit — quiet, solitary, and most at home among his matchboxes. So when a shy colleague at the match factory works up the courage to ask him out, his instinct isn’t to say yes. It isn’t even to say no. Instead, he decides to play matchmaker — steering her toward the charming regular at the village pub. A tidy solution. Except, of course, it isn’t.
Driven by her ambition to win a scholarship to study abroad, a college student leads her close-knit group of friends into an abandoned junkyard to film the season finale of their ghost-hunting channel, hoping to create a viral sensation. But what begins as a quest for views soon turns into a deadly nightmare.
Sergio, who has traveled to Utrecht with his family to attend a soccer match, suffers a panic attack just before taking the flight back to Barcelona.
Saira visits her ex Shahad’s play rehearsal. The play and the night they share stir memories of a beautiful past and dreams of what once was, yet with no place in their present or future.
