Porshi captures the lives of everyday Kolkatans, each navigating their own struggles in a bustling, grey city. Though strangers, they are unknowingly connected — neighbours in spirit and circumstance. Like a palette of distinct, independent colours, none of them realize they could form a rainbow if they came together.
Young Maxime’s mother starts worrying about him when his 2nd grade teacher declares him “abnormal”. After a distressing visit to the hospital, she decides to confront the teacher, only to see the whole situation in a new light when the most trivial misunderstanding occurs. A short movie about gender, especially when it's projected on others.
Başak is a middle-aged, single, successful but obsessive woman. She could not overcome the cancer she had been battling for years and decides to kill herself. It is August and that global warming has taken the whole world by storm she waits for the train that will take her to her death between the rails. Başak sees tortoises between the rails and learns that farmers throw tortoises between the rails to die in the sun. The train that will take her to death never comes.
13-year-old Marta lives in Taranto Vecchia, a little island in southern Italy. In the limited space of her hometown, located right next to a steel factory, global and personal issues densify like under a magnifying glass.
Set over two time periods, the story is a mix of English and Scots Gaelic and follows Isla; a young girl who returns to the Scottish Highlands with her father, leading her to the mystery of the legendary and mythical being, The Selkie.
For Every Apricot drifts through the shifting terrain of memory, illustrating a grandmother’s journey in search of a “miracle drug” to cure her father’s illness. What begins as a simple family story, unfurls into a meditation on aging, fragility, and the circinate patterns that shape life. Through live-action interview, 16mm and 8mm archival footage, and a tapestry of handcrafted animation, the film moves between what is remembered, what is imagined, and what time has eroded. As she reflects on her father’s illness alongside her own, For Every Apricot becomes a deeply personal family portrait.
Arga (22), an older brother who takes on the responsibility of his family. With an overprotective and patriarchal attitude, Arga intends to protect his younger siblings, Aldo (11) and Alya (18). However, his excessive control ends up sparking conflict between them. So, will they be able to understand each other?
A troubled young man, Tommy, hires an escort, Lucy, to keep him company. While Tommy is all thumbs, Lucy goes about business like a pro. But what Tommy has in store for Lucy may test the limits of her professionalism.
After an argument with her girlfriend Eun-young, Jenny begins to experience the strange symptom of flowers blooming on her face. She calls her ex-boyfriend, who once went through the same phenomenon, and invites him and Eun-young to her home.
A couple returns to Aghdam, the city they once fled 32 years ago due to the war. It's a story about memory held in people, and about the small, powerful ways the past resurfaces when you finally face it.
The scars dancing across Baxter's transformed body mark a break. Artist Marc Martin explores the traces of a troubled past and a present lived as a choice, without masks.