While driving through a small town, Ofélia Furão feels a tightness in her chest. She decides to go to the nearest clinic – Oásis. After being admitted, she is taken for ‘examinations’ and discovers a unique-looking office, where she meets another patient, Alice Rato. Doubts about this place, and its real intentions, settle in Ofélia. Brought together by chance, these patients, or more precisely, these ‘guinea pigs’, are looking for a way out of the den in which they find themselves.
Three women from different generations discuss their relationship with their body hair, the pressure they felt to shave throughout their lives or the lack of it. How each of them approaches the subject, defending the individuality of their bodies and their right to choose.
Ryu, a ludic representation of the soul, goes on a journey of self-discovery while confronting all the elements she has been repressing in her own unconscious mind.
Gisberta, an immigrant trans woman, receives the news that she is HIV positive, causing her to lose all her sources of income and become homeless and addicted. In the building where she finds shelter, she is approached by an extremely aggressive young group.
Told through striking animation, one woman’s powerful account of surviving a fire in Tehran’s Evin prison captures resistance; an urgent, creative act rooted in the Iranian Woman! Life! Freedom! movement.
A short story about correspondence between Gulag prisoners and their families, showing how small acts can preserve love, hope, and humanity despite separation, fear, and censorship.
A hypnotic mise-en-abyme constructed from JVC camcorder footage of a parking garage. Produced in tribute to teacher, filmmaker and video artist Peter Rose and the work of Piet Mondrian.
A father leaves his young daughter behind in pursuit of his "dream," and she grows up alone amidst adversity. After years of separation, an unexpected reunion forces her to confront the all-too-familiar stranger that is her father.
Two hours after the apocalypse started in the Philippines, a silly Filipino stray rescue dog is dead set on finding her student owner through a long dangerous journey to defeat her worst enemy: an empty food bowl.
After eight-year-old Zander Rudichelli-Carbinelli III is diagnosed with cancer, his best friend Julie discovers a magical cardboard box that lets her take him on a quest to become "a little bit gangster." Along the way, the two face an ever-growing cast of pirates, convicts, and coppers, as Zander's bucket-list adventure spirals into an unstoppable loving comedy.
In a dystopian world where soldiers are reduced to numbers, #45 begins to question his march toward an uncertain fate and must choose between obedience and freedom.