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 leave an elite university for winter break, a tightly wound astronomy professor and a laid-back football coach are forced to team up for the local Christmas Bar Trivia Tournament. Initial clashes turn into mutual appreciation as the two discover that life's surprises might be more important than always knowing the right answer. As the competition heats up, friendships are tested and secrets surface, revealing how much more is at stake than just bragging rights.
Teresa's daughters and her mother-in-law, a nonagenarian with senile dementia, arrive at her house. The daughters will meet their mother and grandmother at a family reunion to commemorate the anniversary of their father's death.
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.
Two couples and friends, Ale and Santi and Natalia and Mario, are celebrating their twenty years together by holidaying in the Caribbean. They catch up with each other's news, drink, reconnect... Ale, tipsy on the rum, decides to admit that the night the four met one another, she had played her hand to end up with Santi, who had initially fancied Natalia. The news doesn't get the expected response. The following morning, Ale gets up with a horrible hangover and absolutely no idea of the extent to which she will have to face the consequences of her action.
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.
The students at Özlem Dershanesi in Istanbul decide to build a classroom for their peers in the earthquake zone, but they don't have any money. Then they learn about a competition with a cash prize and decide to enter it. However, the director of the dershane, Mustafa, doesn't believe in them because they are all lazy and mischievous. He doesn't think they will win the competition. Under pressure from his fiancée, teacher Pınar, he decides to take the children to the competition.
When a group of women from Manhattan win a weekend getaway with wellness influencer Kali to picturesque Killington, VT, the creepy local vibes and characters take on a life of their own. Tensions spark among the longtime friends as Kali pushes their boundaries, and things take an unexpected turn.
Buenos Aires, 2019. Lucrecia, who jobs as a museum security guard, foresees a sharp rise in the dollar’s value with her pendulum and falls in love with a currency exchange house employee.
After returning home to convince her recluse brother to sell the family house, a woman discovers a secret in the basement that jeopardizes both their lives.
Hippo, a peculiar adolescent, and his Hungarian step-sister Buttercup struggle to come of age in late 1990s America, under the roof of a mother who has been institutionalized at least once.
A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Scarpedicemente is a claustrophobic, dark comedy based on the play written by the two leads, husband and wife team John Vamvas and Olga Montes. Luigi (John Vamvas) is a delusional gangster madly in love with his ditzy gangster moll wife Holly (Olga Montes). The larger-than-life couple are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary at a low rent Las Vegas motel. While deeply in love, Luigi and Holly share an inability to live in the present. Luigi a walking film projector, playing out the favorite gangster movies of his mind. While Holly's exuberant exterior hides a troubled past bubbling to the surface of their relationship. Sparks fly in this tale of two troubled souls mired in their hefty emotional baggage. —Donato Totaro