Bishnu returns to her Himalayan village after quitting her job, only to face mounting family pressures and societal expectations. As tensions rise with her pregnant sister's arrival and a budding relationship with a "suitable" boy from her community, Bishnu must choose between conforming to tradition or claiming her independence.
Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the background of the traditional, patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan ultimately result in a series of tragic outcomes. The realities of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, despite the status of a "secular state", are violence, hypocrisy, and widespread infringement of the rights of women who are stay a socially unprotected part of the population. Under the conditions of aggressive propaganda of both patriarchal and radical, religious ideology, the ideas of feminism in Kyrgyzstan are equated with the popularization of LGBTQ communities, are openly criticized and the justice system, in most cases, takes the side of murderers and rapists.
Spain 1969. After the death of her brother, a young, dyslexic organist begins a forbidden love affair with an idealistic woman who pushes her to write a song and rebel against the highly censorious and conservative society ruled by the dictator Franco.
In contemporary Helsinki, former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
The Song dynasty stone statues, dating back 800 years, stand in the wheat fields of Maozhuang Village. Eight-year-old Qing lives in this village with her mother, Hongmei, while her father works away from home all year round. On the way to school, she meets a ghost-like white child who has come to find his missing mother. With the child's arrival, Qing starts to sense whispering under the stone statues as her mother's secret past begins to reveal itself.
An autobiographical story, set in the city of Grozny in 1994 — its last peaceful year before the outbreak of the First Chechen War, Russia. It follows the life of one family and the tight-knit community of a single courtyard — a place full of warmth, quiet beauty, and the haunting presence of what was to come.
Afrim and Kenan meet after many years reviving childhood memories. The calamity that Afrim suffers puts Kenan in a very difficult situation. Is Kenan willing to sacrifice everything to stay close to his childhood friends. Now, both are looking for memories, but in different forms!
Inside a prison, a young man confronts the emotional wreckage of his crime through sessions with the prison psychologist-reliving the past, facing the pain he caused, and search for redemption in the aftermath of a life-altering choice.
Cultures collide in a beachside college town when the lives of a surfer and a nerd intertwine. Together the step-brothers must navigate romance, finals, and a surf cult.
Jeong-oh is trying to sell a fan that belonged to his girlfriend, Jeong-hyun. The defective fan doesn’t sell, so he takes it to a repair shop. There, Jeong-oh asks a question he’s been harboring since Jeong-hyun’s death: “Do fans made these days still cause people to die if left on while sleeping?” He searches the fan’s user manual and finds no warnings. So, he decides to take revenge on the owner of the company that made the fan, using the same method that (presumably) caused Jeong-hyun’s death.
A detective bored with the monotony of his everyday life finally gets an exciting case to solve. In the process of solving the case he discovers that people aren’t always what they seem.
An atmospheric short film about a woman who grows wings and loves them, only to have her new sense of self shattered by the reactions, and perceived reactions, of those around her.
Espinal tells the story of one of Puerto Rico's most important athletes who, despite all the difficult circumstances, managed to give his country a great joy, being an Olympic medalist. A story of resilience, love, faith and courage.