Thirty years after the massacre of Doce de Pebrero in 1945, an aging survivor struggles to maintain his quiet life as he is haunted by the shadows of his past-memories of violence and fear that refuse to fade, forcing him to confront the lasting scars of his trauma.
Mother and daughter live in a country house surrounded by waiting, where they silently await their father's return. Between the school routine, silent lunches and the traces left by absence, mother and daughter try to reorganize their own lives in the face of an emptiness that insists on remaining.
In a future dominated by a corporation that controls people's health and daily lives, a woman tries to stay afloat amidst an exhausting and dehumanizing routine. In a system that offers everything but demands too much, she goes about her daily life without question, until the marks of her artificial life begin to accumulate.
Rosario (18) attempts to communicate with her dead mother through a ritual forbidden by her family. Miguel (25), her brother, and Fausto (50), her father, fight to stop her and protect themselves from a dark past.
Kishida, a regional bank employee, is suddenly transferred to the Tokyo headquarters. With nowhere else to go, he temporarily moves in with Kura, a high school friend who is now a free-spirited filmmaker in Tokyo.
Cebriana is sure she saw a fire at night on the mountain. There are no traces of embers or witnesses to corroborate her vision. Her grandmother, an old herbmistress, will try to make her see beyond the flames.
When a young couple spends a day in the countryside, suppressed tensions bubble to the surface, as they struggle to communicate on questions of power and responsibility.
Marianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred.
On Da Nang's peninsula, where echoes of war linger, a gay tourist couple searches for a forgotten Vietnamese soldier's grave, shadowed by a mysterious skate crew carving their own paths.
A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.
An auto-fiction drama about car trouble, metropolitanism, and Joseph: an emotionally reserved HVAC apprentice who harbors thinly veiled unrest with his relationships, namely his long-term partner Jen, and his father-figure boss, Daniel.
In an attempt to escape a bad living situation, Don breaks into an apartment and steals a new life for himself. In this space, he begins to shed the artifacts of his previous self and take on the essence of the person who lived there before him. When difficulties make Don leave his sanctuary, he meets a fellow tenant named Toni and quickly becomes enraptured.
Ilraan's Contemplation on the Crisis of Existence unfolds in six acts, each set in a different place. Ilraan moves through ruins, forests, abandoned houses, and distant shores not in search of beauty, but meaning. Yet the more he tries to make sense of the world, the less it offers. Each image, each moment, brings only more questions. The silence deepens, not with peace, but with doubt. The world refuses to explain itself it only mirrors his unease. And in that quiet unraveling, Ilraan begins to lose faith in the shape of reality itself.
In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to any person. He chose to correspond with Sigmund Freud about avoiding war. To this day, the correspondence about war of two great thinkers of all time proves to be more relevant than ever. Inspired by this correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud almost a century ago, the film Why War traces the roots of war, and embarks on a search for an explanation of the savagery of wars that inhabit our world.
Jae-yeon has always been a follower- and just went with what everyone else said. One day, she accidently spots her fiancé walking into a motel with another woman. At the obvious sign of betrayal, she is just heartbroken and is shell-shocked. And with the advice of her friend Su=mi, she decides to take some time off. She leaves everything behind, and runs off to a guesthouse in Jeju Island. Other guests have been occupying the guesthouse- and with Jae-yeon as their new member, they gather around the dinner table and each start their own stories on their past romances- extraordinary stories. One by one, they empty out their 'waste of emotions', yet to be thrown out yet.