In the dynamic and challenging landscape of Northeast China, estranged father and son Lu Jiaquan and Lu Tianyi clash over their conflicting business philosophies. After Jiaquan leaves home to prove himself and becomes a bathhouse manager, he finds his ambition backfiring. With his father's help, he confronts his challenges, leading to a touching reconciliation between them.
A 40-something, single journalist is determined to continue a life of rugby, drinking with buddies, and pan-sexual play parties. Life takes an abrupt change when the 20-something year old son whom he never knew he had enters the picture.
Lucía is arrested while driving her boyfriend Héctor's car at 200 km/h, dazed and bloody. She was sharing a weekend at the beach with him and Elena, her best friend. Now they are both missing and Lucía only remembers a “little” argument that ended with a bottle broken on Héctor’s head, but that’s all. This complicates Simon’s life. A private investigator? No. , thank you. Simon prefers to consider himself a simple “judicial expert”. When his partner Oliver, a lawyer with financial problems due to gambling, asks him to investigate Lucía and the disappearances, Simon does not know that he is about to take the Expertise on another level. Obsessed with Bogart's film noir, Simón will go beyond all limits when he falls in love with Lucía, the amnesiac suspect in the murder he is investigating.
Side Quests is a comedic short film about Aira Juliet, a girl who’s just a silly girl—at least, not that girl anymore, supposedly. Determined to find love through dating apps, she instead stumbles into a series of chaotic side adventures that have nothing to do with romance. From absurd meet-ups to unexpected detours, Aira’s journey becomes less about finding “the one” and more about doing things “just for the plot.” In the end, she realizes that sometimes the real story isn’t about love at all—it’s about embracing the mess along the way.
The panda mascot Manju loses his job at the indoor playground "Frank's Fun House" as well as his purpose in life. Aimless and lonely, he wanders through dreary cityscapes and meets people who treat him with prejudice. Disillusioned and disappointed, he ends up back at "Frank's Fun House", but the "fun" comes to an end.
Camera specialist Ronny J. Augenheimer presents his latest invention: A camera helmet that can turn even the most daring POV shots into reality. At the same time we learn about his struggles and dreams as a filmmaker.
The Berlin academic Pascal inherits a legendary painting from his recently deceased uncle. The heirloom exerts an extraordinary attraction on the new owner, but the picture also calls upon dark forces who appear in the form of two gangsters led by a mysterious client on the telephone. After they gain access to the apartment, a real odyssey begins in an attempt to take the painting. As more villains enter the scene, a wide tangle of mishaps and unforeseen problems arise, making the task a near-impossible undertaking.
When students all flee an elite university in Vermont for winter break, the locals and faculty hunker down for their favorite time of year - the annual Christmas Bar Trivia Tournament. For Celeste, a Type-A astronomy professor, this event combines the magic of Christmas with her greatest comfort in life: knowing the right answer. But when her colleague drops out of the tournament to do a month-long lecture tour in Asia, Celeste's team must adopt Max, the football team's new offensive coordinator. To Celeste, Max seems like nothing more than a grown-up class clown - though he brings an undeniable knowledge of sports trivia (a category their team has always fallen short in). Initial clashes between the two eventually turn into mutual appreciation as the team enjoys scavenger hunts on campus, decorating the international house with Christmas lights, baking Christmas cookies, and advancing toward the championship trivia game.
Tiina's teen-aged younger sister Juulia runs away to the Mietaa Youth Center on New Year's Eve 2003, which leads to a chain of events that brings Tiina face to face again with Mika, who performs with his band at Mietaa.
35-year-old teacher Vilma Veierød lives alone. She shuns social media and worries too much - most of all about death. One day in December, the handsome priest Ivar and the pathologist Robert with Tourette's suddenly appear on her doorstep with a letter and the news that her father has died. Vilma didn't even know she had a father, and the letter turns her whole life upside down. Vilma's life has not been full of people. Not by a long shot. But now she suddenly must deal with two men. Three - if you count her dead father.
What happened to Shotaro, Philip, and Sokichi Narumi on the night that "Kamen Rider W" was born? Based on the Begins Night arc from the live-action Kamen Rider W series with new scenes that expanded said events not seen in the original series, it is a powerful experience that only anime can provide.