Two patients meet in the waiting room of their mutual psychoanalyst’s office. Martine, brave and resilient, has been fighting cancer for years. Alexandre, desperate, cannot recover from the departure of Julien, his great love. Together, they wait, comfort each other and forge a unique bond. But above all, they wonder why their psychoanalyst didn’t keep his appointments that day.
A devoted mother struggles to raise her teenage son living with severe autism, confronting daily challenges while navigating the fragile balance between love, patience, and the desire for her child to find his place in the world.
In a desolate future where Earth has lost most of its atmosphere, two brothers Nathan and the ailing Reza journey across a barren land in search of a mythical flower their late mother once spoke of. As survival grows harder, their bond and fading hope become the last light in a dying world.
A theatre artist’s spiritual journey to embody “Kute Kahar,” a low-caste palanquin-bearer. As Pankaj Chowdhury immerses himself in Kahar’s life - through physical labor, voice, and nature - the line between role and reality fades.
A strong-willed woman defies her father in order to wed her childhood sweetheart, but she faces more antagonism when her new husband leaves the country to find work.
Mentari, an elementary school student, lives alone with her father, Rais, who has mental retardation. Mentari's mother, Ayu Ling, who worked as a traditional dancer, died of an illness. Due to his limitations, Rais can only work as a street cleaner. His father's job makes Mentari often bullied by his schoolmates. Nevertheless, Mentari still feels proud and wants to make her father proud. The opportunity comes when Mentari is asked to participate in a school event by dancing a traditional dance. However, Rais himself does not want to see his son dancing, because it reminds him of his late wife.
In the middle of boxes and souvenirs, Maria finds an old video camera. By revisiting the recordings she made with Ana, he revives memories of affection, complicity and absence: fragments of a time that insists on remaining.
There’s a Naples of the imagination and there’s the real city: the city of fiction and the one with its tales of a past very much alive. Massimilano Gallo’s directorial debut, La salita, is a film about a little-known anecdote from the life of Eduardo De Filippo, featuring a Nisida very different from the image it has in the series Mare fuori, yet Gallo’s take on prison and women behind bars is just as contemporary. Courtesy of Panamafilm and the Film Commission Regione Campania.
Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae CeauČ™escu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing before her eyes. Torn apart by the loss, she tries to make sense of a new, terrifying reality. Can she summon the courage to grow up?
A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever.
24 December 1916. A truck carrying mail is stopped at a German checkpoint and riddled with bullets. Inside, a man lies dead. Another man and a woman, on a postal mission, claim innocence in the death of their companion and their presence in enemy territory. The radio that had been guiding them had apparently cut out, leaving them stranded in no man’s land. And so, on Christmas Eve 1916, a cross- examination begins to uncover the real reason why enemy postmen and couriers are in the trenches.
In a 1990s Himalayan town, teacher Barkha, whose husband serves at the border, develops feelings for enigmatic newcomer Manik amid a community of waiting women where silence and local myths prevail.
During the World War II, a Japanese war major and his soldiers hunt down a woman and her children who are trying to escape Thailand to return home to Malaysia.