Manaia, a young woman caught between expectation and self-acceptance, finds herself confronting her repressed sexuality when a chance reunion with her first love stirs old feelings.
Through letters with a friend in prison, a filmmaker sets out to realize a boys’ love script unfolding behind bars. But as he moves from Berlin to Tokyo to Kaohsiung, the project begins to blur—between fiction and fear, between freedom and its illusion.
While performing an opera about a princess whose misplaced love ends in her father’s death, a fallen kingdom, and her own suicide, a Taiwanese actress discovers she’s pregnant by her ex-husband. Caught between the roles she’s expected to play onstage and at home, she begins to sense another ending may be possible.
A woman is disturbed by a high-pitched noise while others around her remain oblivious. As she desperately tries to locate the sound source, she finds herself on the verge of madness. Is the noise real or is it just a reflection of her unbearable life?
After forty years, Julián returns to the bar he used to go to with his girlfriend Carmen when he was doing his military service in the city. His intention is to heal an old wound, but he discovers something that will change his life.
In a village often disturbed by military drills, the army sends soon-to-retire soldiers to take care of cows and sheep, hoping to build good relations with the locals. But this kind act cannot hide the long-term impact the drills have had on people’s lives.
Frankie is a lonely factory worker who believes he is dying, but there os no one in his life to say goodbye to. On his way to heaven, he becomes a planet, full of life.
A queer reimagining of the French classic La Piscine, in which four former friends and lovers reunite on a hot summer weekend, reigniting long-simmering passions, grievances, and regrets. Olivia, a modern dancer, is vacationing with her husband, Seb, at a secluded country house, when they are paid an unexpected visit by Olivia’s former best friend and, briefly Seb’s lover, Mateo, whose own dance career ended after a serious injury. They haven’t seen or heard from one other in eight years since Mateo cut Olivia and Seb off after a painful betrayal. Adding to this emotionally fraught reunion, Mateo brings along his young and very sexy lover, Zaki. When two more former dance colleagues, Gabriella and her husband and Fabian, Olivia’s lover before Seb, pay a surprise visit, everyone’s romantic and sexual pasts, and desires, collide.
In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigate witchcraft. In the trials, 80 people were sentenced to death at the stake. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, a total of between 40,000 and 60,000 people fell victim to such waves of persecution in Europe. How can this phenomenon be explained?
Having lost their jobs due to a Soviet takeover of Lithuanian Television in 1991, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by frustration about a single question – how long can they hold physical and emotional hunger?
A daughter struggles to speak with her father about her grandmother, revealing the quiet distances — and shared inheritances — that shape three generations of family.
Set in a mysterious restaurant offering only the Troubled Marriage Tasting Menu, this experimental drama unravels the anatomy of a relationship through food. Each course peels back civility, revealing how love, hunger, and power intertwine when living and loving become acts of consumption.
Natsukashi, a short film about memory, love, family, regret, and longing, is meant to touch the hearts of those who allow themselves to feel the pain of loss, the pain of losing oneself amidst adversity. Is love enough to fix the present? Music can unite us as a family, but it is the bond between two siblings that sustains the difficulty of the process.