Miguel is a bartender at night and Ana is an office worker during the day. They are a couple on the verge of breaking up because of their routines. They decide to solve a jigsaw puzzle to reconnect.
Joonas is dead. But through a haunted karaoke mic, he asks his heartbroken fiancée to take him to his mother… so he can finally come out to her – a secret the fiancée never saw coming.
Shayma’ was six years old when the Second Intifada broke out. More than twenty years later, she opens a box of old videotapes that starts her search for memories. In voice-over she addresses her mother, who says she is blessed with a poor memory. Shayma’, by contrast, still remembers exactly what she wore on her first day of school: her new school uniform with a lace collar and a white bow in her hair. She also remembers spying her birthday cake through a crack in the kitchen door of their house, which had been confiscated by Israeli soldiers.
“There were so many of us, but when it all ended, each of us went our own way.” We see footage of the Green Movement, a wave of protests in Iran that began in the summer of 2009, in response to the presidential election fraud in favor of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We see the chaos, the solidarity among the people, and the amazement too: that this is possible, that this is actually happening. Shaky handheld images capture both the energy of the crowd and the panic when shots suddenly ring out. Meanwhile, a voice-over calmly recounts what happened to the people we see.
A taxi driver who works at night takes us through different stories unfolding simultaneously in the city of Buenos Aires. While she desperately searches for an organizing principle that gives meaning to her life, the other characters are pushed to their own limits.
Sol accepts the invitation of Naty, an old friend she hasn't seen in seven years. The plan is to spend the weekend together and perform an ayahuasca ritual. But the trip reawakens old, unresolved emotions among the friends.
A young woman follows a boy walking ahead of her. Little by little, the distance closes. She speaks to him, but he doesn't listen. She hurries and takes his arm, knowing that after saying so many words that meant nothing, there's only one left that explains everything, and she must say it. She says it. But to get to this point, Alena had to walk alone much longer than those few meters that led her to reunite with him and herself.
We literally found our film next to a dumpster. It was a bag containing 36 rolls of photographic negatives exposed between the 1960s and 1980s by an unknown photographer. We named him Anton, Aunt Emma's son. Looking through our contact sheets, with their many inaccuracies—blurred edges, random elements in the frame, haze, accidents, and double exposures—we tried to imagine what our lives would be like if these were our photos.
In a world ravaged by violence and poverty, Rat, a teenage runaway, survives by stealing alongside his friends. On the eve of a typhoon, a betrayal comes to light. Fueled by rage, the boys turn on each other until the storm forces them to confront the fragility of their home and themselves.
Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.
In a Buenos Aires Airbnb, an Italian woman and a stranger share wine and pasta in an unexpected encounter. A visual homage to the 1950s, where tango, Italian roots, desire, and infidelity intersect in an intimate story amidst the magical Buenos Aires nightlife.
Within four walls, a daughter faces her greatest fear as she tries to get her mentally ill mother to attend a rehabilitation committee that will determine her disability status.
Leonardo, whose real name is Michael, wants new white teeth—because everyone has them now. Only unsuccessful people still have yellow ones. So he needs 150 euros, which he doesn’t have, since he’s got more credit record entries than cash. On the streets, the law of the strongest applies—if you don’t have something, you take it, and Leonardo takes it. But the watch he steals turns out to be a fake, and he decides to simply return it to its owner. Luck, however, arrives a little later…
A film that explores the layers of memory, archive and the phenomenon of being in the contemporary world. Through personal stories, archival images and jointly created documentary fragments, the film creates a space where the past encounters lost realities.
It’s an ordinary evening in the neighborhood: the residents are at home, quietly watching TV. Like everyone else, Penguin loves spending time in front of the screen – alone and undisturbed. However, a new neighbor, Pigeon, moves in, and he enjoys different things – a good party. Unable to share limited resources, the birds start a conflict that can lead to only one thing – catastrophe.