Ben is a hard worker and and independent person, but when it comes to making a hard decision about whether he should visit his friend or not, the two different versions of himself clash.
Risa Tanaka is a 30-something who is super sincere and hates lies, but after her mother dies and her boyfriend cheats on her, she takes up work with a human rental service. Despite reservations, she begins to play girlfriends, talent managers, and other roles for people across Tokyo who she is hired by. All the while, between experiences with her clients and life lessons from her laidback boss Teramura, her experiences begin to heal her heart while her wholsomeness rubs off on them.
Spending the evening alone with his favourite films, a teen boy Jamie is pulled back into the memories of a lost friendship — and takes the first step to rebuild it.
A lyrical meditation on love, creation, and a woman's quiet reclamation of her own power. An artist sketches a woman who comes to life. As he dives deeper into his work, she questions the limits of her existence.
Kyiv, before 24 February 2022. A family is trying to make ends meet— though the fridge is permanently empty and the electric meter has sharp teeth. Then bombs hit the building across the street.
An unhappy family in a remote village in Calabria: Luisa is at war with the world since day one. She is juggling odd jobs, her love for her children and granddaughter, and her feuding with her mother, brother, and sister-in-law. While the two women exchange insults and call in the cops, three elderly aunts, a tragicomic chorus, try in vain to keep the peace.
Bianca is 12 years old when she is chosen to play the angel — a symbol of purity and grace — at her town fair. As she prepares for the moment when she will be lifted off the ground, her encounter with Ginevra fractures the surface of childhood and opens a crack from which a new and unsettling desire seeps in. In a suspended time and place, the film covers the imperceptible yet radical transition between imposed purity and awareness of one’s own body, between childhood and adulthood. A female coming-of-age tale that investigates — through its hagiographic and apocryphal aesthetic — the symbolic construct of grace and the inherited weight of guilt.
Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women from seemingly different worlds begin sharing more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover silent empathy, though personal histories and wounds test their delicate connection in a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.
In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
Vildare is a short film about a chaotic drinking game invented by a group of young men. The rules are simple: before rolling a shared die, each player sets themselves a challenge—if they roll a six, they must complete it. As the game unfolds, the dares grow increasingly unpredictable, revealing the group’s shifting dynamics and the blurred line between play, pressure, and control.
On his way to the police school, a young man, accompanied by his parents, brought his beloved cat. Unfortunately his father didn't like this. About him, cats and things are weak.
Mission Muh Dikhayi follows Anjana, a modern woman who marries Devesh, an engineer from Delhi. Two days later, the Muh Dikhayi ritual ignites culture clash, emotional conflict, and a struggle between modern values and tradition.
When 13-year-old orphan Doni learns that his uncle Adi may be planning a life-changing decision, his world begins to crumble. Unbeknownst to him, Adi is secretly preparing to sell their beloved family home to escape mounting debt and secure Doni’s future. But when a charming woman suddenly enters their lives, Doni misreads the situation—believing Adi wants to replace him. Driven by fear and jealousy, Doni launches a series of mischievous attempts to sabotage the woman, unaware that the real threat is the truth he has yet to face.
After seven months in prison for kleptomania, Amelie looks ahead with hope and puts everything into a new start. But then everything turns out differently than hoped. Her husband asks for a break in their relationship, and she is to be excluded from her daughter's wedding because her future father-in-law fears for his re-election as mayor. Amelie feels lost—until the empathetic taxi driver Baris unexpectedly takes her in...
Ricardo and his friends discover that the mother of one of them may be a prostitute. The conversation will become darker when one of them makes a suggestion. Friendship and moral boundaries are tested.