When a important group member is absent, cracks start to form. The teenage age is now in full swing in their lives, how will it affect them. Who will step in?
While on vacation in Bordeaux, four-year-old Lili and her brothers, aged nine and twenty, are left to fend for themselves when their flamboyant mother goes home to her restaurant-disco business in Gabon without them. Torn between the desire to return to her lost paradise and the duty to seize the chance to make her mother proud, Lili grows up developing strategies to survive, find success, and return to the bright lights of her native Africa.
Drifting from her reality on the streets of Mexico City, a woman's chaotic thoughts spill into verse in short film Weird - directed by Flavio Morales and Nicolas Corvino. Overwhelmed by the routines and structures that direct her day-to-day, she questions the nature of love, life, death and existence itself, undergoing a metamorphosis as an uncanny feeling takes hold. Playing with visual effects makeup to evoke the image of a fish, Morales and Corvino enlisted makeup artist Feña Acuña to center their protagonist's dissociation, exploring the depths of her mind as she becomes immersed in thought.
Jackie Despain is in the for the fight of her life. In order to get custody of her young niece, the aspiring mixed martial artist, does the one things she knows she is good at - fight. If she can win enough fights within the brutal, high stakes world of mixed martial arts and sign a professional contract, she can win back her niece. As Jackie blazes a violent path towards her goal, she must rely on the guidance of her hardened trainer, Hank.
Younis Al Arabi gets into trouble after artificial intelligence begins to control the course of events in the world, in light of the technological progress that humanity has achieved.
Carlos parks in reverse, as fast as he can. He gets out of the car carrying a bag, opens the door of a house with his keys, but doesn’t go in. He locks it and rings the doorbell. Once, twice. Until a 15-year-old boy appears. Together they will do what neither of them want to do: bury the family dog.
Su-a, a six-year-old girl, is trapped in a studio apartment with an iron cord wrapped around her waist. However, she does not cry due to a disorder caused by abuse. While Su-a is dying of hunger, her aunt Soon-im arrives in time to visit and rescue her. Through the account of a neighbor, Soon-im discovers that Su-a's mother has not returned for over 10 days. Soon-im decides to rescue her only niece from her mother.
It's summer on a farm in Cyprus. Valeria, a reclusive young writer, spends her days focused on her work. One evening, she meets Antigone at a party. Antigone is outgoing and carefree, contrasting with Valeria’s reserved nature. Amid the sunlit fields and beaches, Valeria and Antigone grow closer, discovering the beauty of a newfound desire. This bond helps Valeria grow and find new inspiration for her writing.
Three brothers meet to go to the bedside of their sick mother. While she is dying, her husband and sons will try to survive her. As best they can, the father organizes daily life in silent distress while his sons do not know how to cope with the approaching death.
Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with its rooms, its furniture, what plays out there and what has already played out there. From one room to another, from one era to another, the film delves deep into this enclosed space, a kind of suffocating box.
Tae-hwa receives a lung transplant from his father, who had committed a hit-and-run the night before the surgery. Riddled with guilt, Tae-hwa sets out to find the victim’s daughter Mi-ji. When he finally meets her, he offers her money to make amends for his father's crime. But Mi-ji demands something else instead: That he would help find her missing mother.
In a dystopian future, Nura, a 54-year-old woman, lives in isolation in a barren, waterless world, relying on her greenhouse to survive. Here, she cultivates with loving devotion everything she needs.