Six women. Six rooms. Six confrontations with the past. Shot in East London, Second Skin is a devastating meditation on society’s obsession with a woman’s age.
On Christmas Eve, Dejair, a former resistance fighter against the military dictatorship, gathers with his family in the backyard. During a Secret Santa game, the contrast between appearances and private truths emerges. A water gun gift leads Dejair to denounce the absurdity of giving a child a weapon.
Zazu, a teenager in the midst of discovering their identity, must choose whether to take part in their village’s traditional celebration by assuming a predetermined role, or stay true to what they feel.
Set in 1968, two students, Marcos and Esperanza, debate whether or not they should attend the protest taking place at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco. Despite the warnings, for them, this is a fight for freedom and against oppression.
Hong spent ten years in prison for killing her husband. Thanks to her contribution to the prison art workshop, she receives an unexpected opportunity to reduce her sentence. Her son, Lele, was raised by his grandmother and was never prepared to live with his mother. After their reunion, Lele always treats her coldly. Faced with a lonely grandmother who longs for Lele to return to her and a society that treats ex-convicts poorly, can Hong escape her invisible prison and regain happiness?
Set in 2025, five centuries after the sentencing of death of Gilles de Rais. A young couple discovers the case while isolated from the world. Like their contemporaries, they wonder about the guilt or innocence of this monster who inspired the Bluebeard tale. And so the idea arises to recreate the trial.
After being released from prison, Willard searches for solace through a mandatory support group, forming an unlikely connection with the group's leader, Alton.
Patika unexpectedly invites her former university classmates to her newly inherited apartment for a get-together for apparently no reason, after eight years without contact. As a good host, Patika prepares dinner, and thanks to the old campus heart-throb Honda, there’s plenty of wine. Once everyone has arrived—including Vica, now a turbo-charged mother of two, and Nóra, a successful artist freshly returned from abroad—it becomes clear that their host does have a pressing reason for gathering them. A very pressing one.
Samuel, a young football prodigy who has everything in his life under control—until he meets Luca, a new teammate. Samuel must confront unexpected feelings while trying to achieve his goal of being signed by a First Division team.
In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to La Réunion after an absence of four years, because her Pépé, a local zarboutan, is dying. Just as she has to say goodbye, Ondine has a strange encounter in a pond.
A psychiatrist struggling with a severe mental disorder faces a personal crisis that makes him feel like he is on the verge of losing everything. Determined to hold onto everything, he begins taking drastic and unusual actions.
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
Alex is a dazzling young French EDM artist who’s in Japan to shoot music videos for her new album. During the shooting, she gets close to her pretty Japanese assistant Mia. The burgeoning love story is suddenly stopped when the director decides to shoot Mia instead of her. As jealousy settles stronger and stronger, little by little Alex falls into paranoid madness…
Fearing him suicidal after a breakup, Daniel Boyd rushes to check on his buddy John who's holed up in the sketchiest motel this side of the Raritan River. There they find their understanding of love, friendship, and the world tested by the barrel of a gun.
When Sandro’s father decides to devote his life to God and leaves for a monastery, the teenage introvert finds himself deprived of the fundamental certainties of life. Abandoned by his father and his mother, who is working abroad, the young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery, opening up both to a new friendship with the radical Lasha, who has ties with an ultra-right organisation, and also to the chance to explore his own sexuality.