Robin, a boy who lives with his grandparents and his older sister, finds an old book of his late mother about soil science that will change his life. Drugs and inter-family conflicts will cause Robin to start having nightmares in which the soil will order him to commit a terrible act.
Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer.
Amarr Coleman, a successful Chicago-based artist who has returned home to Kentucky after the passing of his beloved grandmother, Linda Coleman, finds himself still in Lexington a month after the funeral, struggling to wrap up family affairs. When an old friend visits him, Amarr is forced to re-explore the neighborhood, his memories, and the many characters that reflect the history, beauty, and complexity of home.
A mysterious herd of rhinos attacks a peaceful town. The surprised townsfolk initially try to ignore the threat, but their fear for their fate intensifies and causes them to voluntarily become rhinos. A young man named Bérenger tries his best to protect his close friends and his lover from joining the rhino herd, but is it possible to remain human in a time of extreme threat? And at what cost?
Just as Necrón resigns himself to never completing his book, a mysterious mirror arrives at his door, beckoning him. From that night on, inspiration comes to him unannounced, cloaked in mystery. Yet when the mirror has shown him every face he wears, will Necrón find the courage to confront his own demons?
Ben is a hard worker and and independent person, but when it comes to making a hard decision about whether he should visit his friend or not, the two different versions of himself clash.
Risa Tanaka is a 30-something who is super sincere and hates lies, but after her mother dies and her boyfriend cheats on her, she takes up work with a human rental service. Despite reservations, she begins to play girlfriends, talent managers, and other roles for people across Tokyo who she is hired by. All the while, between experiences with her clients and life lessons from her laidback boss Teramura, her experiences begin to heal her heart while her wholsomeness rubs off on them.
Spending the evening alone with his favourite films, a teen boy Jamie is pulled back into the memories of a lost friendship — and takes the first step to rebuild it.
A lyrical meditation on love, creation, and a woman's quiet reclamation of her own power. An artist sketches a woman who comes to life. As he dives deeper into his work, she questions the limits of her existence.
Cohaze Coffee has been a popular fixture of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa neighbourhood for 18 years but it will move to a new location in a month’s time. This has set the tongues wagging of the regular customers who sit and debate the situation while the madcap staff and lackadaisical manager go about their daily business as they count down the days. Watching all of this is Aoki, a young woman who spends her breaks sipping coffee solo, sometimes reading, sometimes watching the world go by through the window, and always observing how people from all walks of life end up in or around Kohaze coffee.
Kyiv, before 24 February 2022. A family is trying to make ends meet— though the fridge is permanently empty and the electric meter has sharp teeth. Then bombs hit the building across the street.
An unhappy family in a remote village in Calabria: Luisa is at war with the world since day one. She is juggling odd jobs, her love for her children and granddaughter, and her feuding with her mother, brother, and sister-in-law. While the two women exchange insults and call in the cops, three elderly aunts, a tragicomic chorus, try in vain to keep the peace.
Bianca is 12 years old when she is chosen to play the angel — a symbol of purity and grace — at her town fair. As she prepares for the moment when she will be lifted off the ground, her encounter with Ginevra fractures the surface of childhood and opens a crack from which a new and unsettling desire seeps in. In a suspended time and place, the film covers the imperceptible yet radical transition between imposed purity and awareness of one’s own body, between childhood and adulthood. A female coming-of-age tale that investigates — through its hagiographic and apocryphal aesthetic — the symbolic construct of grace and the inherited weight of guilt.
Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women from seemingly different worlds begin sharing more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover silent empathy, though personal histories and wounds test their delicate connection in a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.