After losing her mother’s cherished dumpling recipe, 65-year-old YiYi embarks on a journey to piece it back together, leading her to reconnect with a childhood friend and explore the relationship they never had.
Kaspar is a medical tech diagnosed with terminal cancer and six months to live. Confronting mortality, he quits his job to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a Los Angeles pool boy.
When a former centerfold suffers a breakdown on her partner’s birthday, she must outwit her smart home device on a blood-soaked path to having her own cake and eating it, too.
Grappling with dementia, eighty-year-old Kang longs to return to China. When a yellow crane appears, memory and reality blur — guiding his spirit home in a final goodbye seen only by his granddaughter.
After the death of a famous actor, his estranged daughter visits his house where she discovers a magic theater mask. When she puts it on, it whisks her back in time to a majestic theater, bringing her face to face with him as a young man.
Mariam lives in a remote rice-field village in the north of Malaysia. On the first day of Eid al-Fitr celebration, Mariam reflects on her past, and ruminates on the consequences of the decision that she will make on this day.
When a meteor lands in his backyard, killing his beloved dog, suburban misfit Atticus channels his grief into his garage-punk band as he wrestles with teenage angst, fractured family dynamics and a growing government presence in his neighborhood.
During an extended stay, Carlisle and his older sister endure strict treatment from their grandmother and ailing grandfather. When Carlisle witnesses a disturbing violation, he must forge a path for their escape.
Radha, an 11-year-old girl in rural India, loses her backpack on her first day of work at a factory. She journeys to retrieve the school bag and with it, her dreams for the future.
Jia loves her bestie Nina more than anything, but when Nina tells Jia she wants to attend the school dance with a boy and not with Jia as planned, a choice is made that changes their friendship forever.
Alberto, a disillusioned young director, is convinced that cinema has nothing left to offer him. But it is precisely by giving up on his dream that he discovers its deeper meaning.
From her first stage work with Sergei Yursky at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, to her screen debut in The Long Recess which brought her fame, to her later roles in Sergey Snezhkin’s Bury Me Behind the Baseboard and Brezhnev—a rich creative biography of Svetlana Kryuchkova unfolds before our eyes. The actress’s life story is recounted by herself, her colleagues, friends, and film scholars.
Afaaq, a Kashmiri boy with supernatural powers, learns his father will be picking apples in a war-torn region of Kashmir. Afaaq must stop him from leaving before the apples ripen and the harvest begins.
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld is an intimate portrait of what it means to expose oneself. At its center is the iconoclastic film producer Stuart Cornfeld (1952-2020) sharp-tongued, outspoken, irreverent, and true to himself. The film unfolds through the eyes of an artist who, in Stuart’s final years, paints multiple portraits while speaking with him and those who knew him best (friends, collaborators, actors, film directors and, film producers) tracing the life of a man who embraced misfits because he, too, never quite fit in.
Karl and Tristan grow up during the Nazi dictatorship. Tristan succumbs to the ideology of hatred, while Karl desperately tries to protect his family—especially his sister Erika, who has Down syndrome.
Lily Belle (Renée Hackett) enters the Last Love Letter contest at the post office and a co-worker Ephram Amore (Andy Jones) catches her tampering with the mail to change her luck and find true love.
In a Lisbon techno club, Abdul, an immigrant worker on his very first shift, is on a video call with his wife Aliyah, who is going into labor and urging him to be present, while his new boss Maria desperately calls for his help. Caught between work’s demands and his son’s birth, Abdul grapples with the fear of losing his job and the challenge of becoming a father from afar, and fights with his strict father-in-law for his right to perform the sacred tradition of reciting the Adhan for his newborn son. The film Prayer, which explores the intersection of tradition, fatherhood, and the struggles of undocumented immigrant labor, is based on the autobiographical story of its screenwriter, Deo Mahameru. The project was created as a student film within the KinoEyes Joint European Film Masters at Lusofona University in Lisbon.
Originating in 1950s America, the term "Saturday Night Butch" described lesbians who dressed stereotypically feminine during the week—for work and daily life—and expressed their Butch identity only on weekends, in lesbian bars. Claudia Vogt’s film explores the modern relevance of this term through the stories of five queer women, highlighting the positive impact these spaces have had on their lives.