Eloi, a hardworking man, is the victim of a deadly assault. In a transcendental space, he meets God, who reveals to him the secrets of the universe and his role in it.
Joaquín and Irene are a couple like any other, normal, so normal that they couldn't help but fall into a routine without realizing it. Will they be able to escape it?
Hermes and Durval are childhood friends which time has separated. When the friends bump into one another, Durval invites Hermes for dinner at his house and something unexpected happens. Hermes falls in love with Clarita, Durval's wife. After he discovers she doesn't have the same feelings for him, Hermes prepares a plan to get the love of Clarita.
A Cambodian escort in Kuala Lumpur offers intimacy through stories, slipping between languages to soothe her clients—until a lonely Korean man’s longing for the past forces her to confront the silences in her own story.
Frederico and Julieta share a young marriage, caught between crises and reconciliations. When Julieta’s behavior suddenly changes, Frederico searches for answers — only to discover that under the table, a third pair of legs might change everything.
“If I could live my whole life on my own will, what would it be like?” Anja, a 22-year-old biracial film school undergraduate, imagines her ideal life from birth to death. The perfection of Anja’s fantasy starkly contrasts with the incompleteness of her reality, highlighting her deep longing and life story.
Set against the backdrop of Toronto’s vibrant and urban landscape, Butterfly on a Wheel follows Jacen Davis (Curran Walters) as a gifted young musician struggling to keep up with daily life due to his OCD and anxiety. Studying jazz at the prestigious Royal Conservatory of Music, Jacen hopes to one day conquer his fears and perform to a live audience at the illustrious Koerner Hall. While playing alone one afternoon, a chance encounter with fellow student Sorrel (Brielle Robillard) sets in motion a transformative journey that will shape Jacen’s perception of the world around him, and with the support of his brother Dylan (Michael Provost), hopes to re-discover his most authentic self.
Lieve (16) usually spends her days at the city skatepark. Here she pushes the boundaries of growing up alongside her best friends, with whom she shares cigarettes with as well as stories about dating cute boys. Secretly, she hopes to run into Jonas here, a skateboarder she slept with for the first time. Lieve feels a lot of love for Jonas and she can't wait to pursue a lovingly relationship with the skateboarder. However, once Jonas has arrived at the skatepark, he is keeping his distance from Lieve. Step by step, Lieve is starting to realize how the experience with Jonas isn't as right as she once believed. Did he actually care for her and her boundaries? As the truth gradually sinks in, she decides to make a new decision - to prioritize self love.
Through this haunting portrayal of an aid worker’s story, Salar Pashtoonyar sheds light on the troubling realities of a nation in turmoil in his measured and unsettling piece about the repercussions of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan.
Following a radio DJ's voice, Won-gyeong joins an audition to become part of the national dance team for a world tour. Amid dancers chasing their own desires, she fights pressure to live as Lee Won-gyeong—not Ri Won-gyeong—and advances through three rounds. One, two, three, four. Two, two, three four. Will Won-gyeong pass the audition?
Min-hyeong, a musician working in Mullae-dong, is preparing to move out after failing to renew his lease. One day, he meets Jee-an, a welder, and as they grow closer, he begins to write the final track of his album.
Jung Soo-yeon, a first-year elementary school teacher, experiences an absurd situation after school when she gets trapped on the school rooftop by her 5th-grade students' pranks. The children lock the rooftop door, mock Soo-yeon, and leave, and Soo-yeon tries to call for help in the empty school but no one is there.
A man who studies Mongolian history enjoys happy life with his wife. But one day after the president declares martial law, he loses his wife in a sudden accident. Struck by the immense shock, he loses his ability to speak. Now, the man must find his voice again in order to speak with the spirit of his departed wife.
Quiet and emotionally reserved, Jonghan seeks out his late father's old friend, a photography professor, and begins learning how to take pictures. Meanwhile, Siyeon, a former artist who abandoned her creative life, stumbles upon a gallery and confronts an idealized version of her past self. Wandering through ruins and a desolate city with his camera, Jonghan meets Minsu, a mysterious young man, and is forced to face his own pain.
When A 26-year-old mentally unstable son of a poverty-stricken elderly couple begins to feel like a burden and the reason for constant mockery in a village they have lived their entire life. The couple's decides to travel to the Maha Kumbh, once in a 144-year pilgrimage, largest human gathering on the planet. Will this journey bring them the healing they hoped for? Or will their lives be changed forever?
A trans man and his partner travel to a remote Iranian village to face his estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically, in visionary director Farnoosh Samadi’s bold queer love story.
This story surrounds a pivotal event: the sun does not rise for one day. While the world watches a new sun rise, mysterious events weave together the lives of a Sculptor, a Civil Servant and a Security Guard. Through varied landscapes and timelines, journeys through moments of grief are ignited. This film, shot over the course of a year on some broken Bolex cameras and features in-camera fx such as multiple exposures.
In post World War 2 France, an alcoholic writer tries to shave his moustache. What follows is an unraveling that explores his relationship to masculinity, narcissism and religion.