Lonely Country

Alain, the architect, lives secluded in his luxurious finca in the outback. He solely wears women's clothes und avoids any contact to people. When he's forced to break out, neither the outside world nor his inner world seem to be ready.

The night in a big city. A young woman walks alone on a bridge, her gaze unfathomable. She stops, hesitates briefly, then jumps to her death. Under mysterious circumstances, Mara survives the jump and wakes up dazed in hospital. The doctors are strangely reserved when she calls her boyfriend Janis. Mara flees home from the hospital, but finds a completely changed apartment where another woman has taken her place and throws Mara out of the apartment. It slowly becomes clear that no one recognizes Mara, she seems to have completely "fallen out of the world".

A baby polar bear searches for his missing mother, while a force much colder than the frozen tundra searches for him.

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.

The Sun rises and greets Clea, a sleeping beauty, a goddess, the spirit of the earth, but she is frightened and flees, pursued by the mighty star, infatuated with her.

A painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story about a young Vietnamese American writer whose fractured family was torn by their experiences during the Vietnam War.

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

It was a hard struggle Mina, the little lace-maker, had with the world, supplying the needs of herself and her crippled little sister. An expensive brace was necessary. There was only one way left. Mina decided to sell her hair. So her romantic young landlord bought it. Of course, being human, we know the end, but Mina didn't.

A village man comes across a piece of meat by chance , after cooking and eating it realises the uncanny taste that is unknown to him . The search to find the same taste leads to a catastrophic turn of events

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.

After teenage Ben comes to the realization that his stage 4 testicular cancer is terminal, he decides to throw a "practice funeral" as one final hurrah before the end of his young life.

Ali has not seen his father for 15 years. He rushes to his remote village with his family to say goodbye to his dying father. The hero, who had little contact with his father even as a child, is unable to say goodbye, but he does make it to the funeral. The hero, who suffers psychological shock from his father's death, confesses, undergoes catharsis, and becomes spiritually purified.

When Catarina finds out that she is pregnant, she questions the responsibility of bringing a child into this world.

El Estallido del Silencio

The meeting of a group of friends around a dinner party will be broken by an unexpected event, which will reveal the real reason for the meeting...

Christian is on family vacation with his wife and son. One day he meets Luca, an old friend, at the bar on the beach. This sudden emergence from the past bothers Christian. Luca asks Christian to restart a game interrupted many years ago...

The son of a wealthy businesswoman returns home from boarding school. His mother, always busy with business and with her ambitious lover, realizes that her son suffers for being a homosexual. Having killed a teacher who abused him, the trauma makes him keep killing.

Short film by Oskari Sipola

When Father Matthew discovers an intimacy between two of the other priests at a remote conversion-therapy centre in Northern Ireland, his attempt to do the right thing leads to a crisis of faith and feeling.