In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
Greece. A small, impoverished city-state dominated by a massive refinery—its only source of income: oil. The men, all armed, hold absolute power. Their leader, Nikos, is gravely ill and must arrange his succession. Shock spreads when he includes his protégé, Maria, among the contenders. The fate of this young woman—unaware of the most tragic part of her family’s past—will be turned upside down by the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.
When 13-year-old orphan Doni learns that his uncle Adi may be planning a life-changing decision, his world begins to crumble. Unbeknownst to him, Adi is secretly preparing to sell their beloved family home to escape mounting debt and secure Doni’s future. But when a charming woman suddenly enters their lives, Doni misreads the situation—believing Adi wants to replace him. Driven by fear and jealousy, Doni launches a series of mischievous attempts to sabotage the woman, unaware that the real threat is the truth he has yet to face.
After seven months in prison for kleptomania, Amelie looks ahead with hope and puts everything into a new start. But then everything turns out differently than hoped. Her husband asks for a break in their relationship, and she is to be excluded from her daughter's wedding because her future father-in-law fears for his re-election as mayor. Amelie feels lost—until the empathetic taxi driver Baris unexpectedly takes her in...
Ricardo and his friends discover that the mother of one of them may be a prostitute. The conversation will become darker when one of them makes a suggestion. Friendship and moral boundaries are tested.
Blinded by jealousy and pain over his partner's betrayal, a young man kills her lover, convinced that he has restored his honour. But the crime brings no relief: only fear and the weight of a guilt he cannot handle.
Two young people find themselves in a place surrounded by nature, where everything seems suspended and every gesture brings back an intimacy built up over time. Between light-hearted conversations and meaningful silences, the sound of water accompanies their words, while the boundary between reality and memory becomes increasingly blurred. An encounter that oscillates between what has been and what remains, leaving an echo in the air that is difficult to grasp.
Daniela is a teenager who lives with her father in the countryside following the recent death of her mother. After taking a pregnancy test, she must find her boyfriend Darío to tell him the news.
Angèle has just moved to Athens with her mother, Julie. Haunted by her thoughts and weighed down by growing tensions at home with her mother, she decides to escape—with only her friend, Poisson.
In the Himalayan foothills town of Darjeeling, India, a devout Tibetan Buddhist monk named Tashi is sent to Japan to continue his spiritual training. There, he meets a cantankerous elderly man and his parolee granddaughter, Emi. As Tashi grows closer to them, the distance between the lonely Emi and Tashi begins to shrink, and forbidden feelings start to emerge between them.
In 1946, one year after World War II, Tetsuko leaves her mother in Aomori and moves to Tokyo alone to discover her purpose. Enrolling at Koran Girls' School, her loud and impulsive nature intensifies. She becomes captivated by the world of cinema, frequently breaking school rules to sneak into theaters and watch movies on her way home. As she explores her independence, her family life begins to rebuild. Her new home in Tokyo is completed, allowing her mother to rejoin her. Additionally, her father, who was rumored to be interned in Siberia, is confirmed safe and will soon return. While Tetsuko is overjoyed about the upcoming family reunion, she faces a pivotal moment where she must finally decide on her future path.