Smaragda, 46, moves into her late mother's house in Ayia Napa, a tourist town in Cyprus, and takes on the care of Bella, her mother's guide dog. Single and professionally stagnant, she grapples with the fear of inheriting her mother's degenerative eye condition while contemplating her legacy. As a former children's TV show host yearning to return to the industry and facing rejection, she explores social media, encountering both fame and backlash. Financially strained, she takes a job as a kids' entertainer at a tourist resort, a far cry from her previous aspirations. Despite the challenges and fears she faces, Smaragda realizes that, with the support of her friends and her own resilience, she can handle whatever life throws at her.
On a desert continent, Caviche and Chelina are faced with a difficult decision when they discover an unexpected pregnancy. Chelina decides to interrupt it due to the fear of facing her violent father. To finance the abortion, they are forced to venture into the world of gasoline smuggling. Together, they embark on a journey through the path of hell, facing challenges and difficult confessions. Amid the aridity of the road, their love will be put to the test as they fight to survive and find a way out.
As a major life decision approaches, Theo finds himself yearning for what he doesn’t have in this romantic drama about the conflict between happiness and self-destruction.
Auksė and her father Saulius arrive at her late grandfather’s house, where Auksė learns that Saulius intends to sell the property. Saulius considers things left at home as junk that needs to be thrown away, while Auksė sees them as memories that shape her entirely different view of the past. Guided by her new-found perspective, Auksė tries to convince her father to reconsider the sale. But the cold relationship between them and the ongoing silent mourning lead to a confrontation where neither side is completely right.
A man is detailed for a secret mission in the countryside. After beginning to understand what it really is about, he progressively descends into madness.
5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
She gets short of breath from incense cleansing rituals, dream diaries, wish lists that are supposed to be thrown into the fire bowl and other such esoteric hocus-pocus. At a winter solstice party thrown by her older sister Svea just before Christmas, the more rational climate researcher Liane encounters a world that is foreign to her. The scientist meets Mani, who is walking the spiritual path and who somehow fascinates her despite all the differences. Her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Philipp is less good. After an argument, he flies to Gomera alone. She stays behind, not only worrying about the weather being far too warm, but also has to put up with her Christmas-crazy neighbor and his family and receive her conspiracy-obsessed in-laws-to-be while Mani stays overnight with her. On Christmas Eve, fate and the weather really start to shake up Liane.
Dounia, a young woman who travels to Russia to bid a final farewell to her sick father, arrives to find her stepmother informing her that it's too late, yet she stays for the funeral and discovers she has a half-brother.
After serving his sentence for a sex crime, Nanne's son Arnout returns home to the farm in Friesland. Consumed by a poisonous cocktail of grief, hatred, biting self-reproach and against the backdrop of the coercive mores of a conservative Frisian rural community, Nanne tries to regain his compassion for Arnout.
"Nostalgia of Everything", the second short film test of the "Experimental Test" trilogy, is about the director creating a story by using random videos he shot in the past and adding some new extra scenes. As in the first film of the trilogy (Days, Months, Years and Nothing Else), the scenes in this film were shot in a short time with a phone camera, with natural lights, and the story (monologue) written later was adapted to the harmony of these visuals and non-original music "Terje Rypdal - Mystery Man".