Haru Momose, a 22-year-old student in Tokyo who works at a bar, is living with a sense of suffocation that she cannot express in words. One day, after finding yarn on the streets, the threads of fate draw her to Ori Tsukimoto, a woman knitting at a cafe. Haru falls in with Ori and the two spend their days together. With her, Haru begins to unravel her frustrations by knitting and talking and she soon begins to reknit herself and the world.
Anandhu, a quiet and emotionally withdrawn young man, lives a seemingly peaceful life with his sister. But when an unexpected truth surfaces, their world is turned upside down.
Rezaei is a teenager who is mocked by his peers, but eventually, he reaches his breaking point and decides to take revenge on one of his classmates. However, this revenge doesn’t end well.
Robert, a security guard at a corporate company, has always had a crush on his work colleague Marta. When he finally got the nerve to ask her out, she refused. Robert, however, did not let go and, by way of grog and impulse, he ... kidnapped her. Now he has to get out of the situation and prove that he had no bad intentions.
In the film "Open Eyes", shot in the noir style, a safe cracker falls in love with a banker's daughter and betrays his best friend. After the death of a friend during a single robbery, the hero is overcome with guilt and a thirst for revenge — but soon realizes that redemption is beyond his reach.
Carla is the maid of a rich family. Cosimo is a child neglected by his parents. Two souls wounded by indifference in an austere and deafening villa. A mother looking for a son, a son in need of a mother.
Through the eyes of a farmer's daughter, the land bears witness to generations of struggle and sacrifice, as she grapples with the choice to embrace the dust they call their own or chase a future beyond the fields.
Paper Cut is a short film that explores the struggles of a student who faces unexpected challenges while trying to complete his college. Set within the familiar environment of classrooms and college, the film highlights themes of pressure, friendship, and perseverance. As tensions rise, small moments reveal deeper conflicts and emotional layers.
The State Electrotechnical Factory's cultural palace, or vefiņš, was opened on March 1, 1960, and was allocated for the factory's needs. However, today science has been banished from these walls. Alongside the brightest local pop artists, countless feet and legs dressed in pastels tread the boards of this stage every year to determine which group will take center stage at the Daugava Stadium during the Song and Dance Festival. Meanwhile, the young, promising and provocative documentary filmmaker Ingmārs Somis has come here to make a film about the "other side" of folk dancing on stage - about nationalistic programming, worn-out feet, sunburn and blouses tucked into underpants. He has decided to expose the teachers, lecture the parents, liberate the dancers, destroy the VEF cultural palace, get hold of the Great Kristaps and enter the Latvian cultural canon.
Young flutist and conductor Maija's secret dream has come true—she has been entrusted with conducting her first orchestra. However, Maija's inner insecurity and fear of conflict do not help her cope with the energetic youth orchestra. In addition, the overly cheerful choirmaster Kārlis, in his attempts to help the young conductor, only undermines her already non-existent authority. When Maija remembers the legendary conductor Leonīds Vīgners and his authoritative leadership style, she feels a strange inspiration. The changes in the young conductor's personality surprise both her and her orchestra, which has only three rehearsals left before the concert. Maija must decide how to lead her orchestra to the concert - in the style of Leonīds Vīgners, or in her own?
An unsettling psychological descent into guilt, denial, and fractured identity. A father attends his daughter's funeral—a girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered. But when a young stranger, eerily resembling the father, appears and begins an unwanted conversation, the fragile facade of reality starts to crack. What begins as a confrontation spirals into something far more harrowing: a reckoning with a buried self. Inspired by Amélie Nothomb’s The Enemy’s Cosmetique, this film explores the monstrous duality of man—and the haunting price of facing one’s own darkness.
American-born teen, Rima the Lost One, unites with her great-grandmother, also named Rima, on a time-travel journey to 1930s Palestine. After clashing with her modern-ish Mom on vacation, Rima the Lost One finds herself warped through a portal that takes her to the present of her ancestors. Rima the Lost One must navigate her ancestral homeland, a place she’s never known. She desperately looks for a way home, aka the present, the place she originally desired to escape from.
This film follows the emotional connection between a mother and daughter's eroding relationship ever since they became estranged. With cinematography rooted in realism and a story embedded in real life events. The High Road is a symbol for all women failed by their mothers.
Two childhood best friends, bound by a shared dream of performing, reach an emotional crossroads when their hopes of attending music school start to unravel, forcing them to face the painful reality of growing up and drifting apart.
In a 70s landscape of theatre, a charming dream-chaser says hello to the love of his life for the first time. 50 years later, a simple hill is preventing him from saying goodbye.