In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.
Gabby and Marvin's wedding weekend turns dramatic instead of joyful as Marvin's past interrupts their big day. Marvin has to reconcile with his father to please his soon to be wife. His ex-girlfriend resurfaces, hellbent on disrupting the already planned wedding between the soon to be couples.
NINHO is a love letter to the director’s homeland, a coastal place where different worlds quietly coexist, where a British surfer shares the same horizon as an elderly woman who still bakes bread by hand. Shaped by salt, wind, routine, and memory, it is a story about leaving, and about what never truly leaves us. Blending fiction with real testimonies from the people of Mafra, the film is guided by the fictional character Mariana, a young woman who moves abroad to start over. Through her intimate perspective, we explore migration, belonging, and the challenge of building a new life without losing one’s roots.
The film tells the story of an old husband Hüsrev and Melek, who was first a servant and then his wife. With this marriage Hüsrev’s subconscious hidden passions are revealed.
Two Memphis brothers' childhood is impacted by tragedy. They are raised by their grandmother but follow different paths into adulthood.
Once a promising musician, Virgil Ross III is now at a crossroads, haunted by alcoholism, failure and fractured family relationships. Determined to reinvent himself as a competitive free diver, he is drawn to the depths of the ocean as a sanctuary from his inner turmoil. But the ocean is unforgiving, and as he plunges into the world of freediving, he faces not only the physical challenges of the sport but the harrowing depths of his own psyche.
Penny, a 24-year-old woman from an affluent but emotionally distant family, learns she is going blind due to a degenerative eye disease. As her vision deteriorates, Penny turns to psychoanalysis not in hopes of reversing her condition, but to confront years of denial and silence. Through reckoning with her parents, reconnecting with her siblings, and reclaiming her own voice, Penny begins to redefine what it means to truly see, to be seen, and to heal.
After being mistaken for his twin brother by his estranged and dying dad, a soft-spoken trans man relishes the opportunity to be one of the boys, until the weight of the lie becomes heavier than his need for the truth.
As seen today 'Money' is an integral part of everyone's life, the idea behind making this film was to portray the complexities between the multiple characters (Chetan, his mother & father) in a very realistic way regards to their point of view on money. The film shows us three different perspectives of how money makes one feel.
An incarcerated black teen, yearning for freedom, gets a chance to escape, which forces him to confront his place in society.
Bona, a middle-class student, becomes infatuated with a struggling actor, Gardo, and drops out of school to live with him. She becomes his unpaid maid, performing chores and enduring his relationships with other women, in the hopes of reciprocation.
Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head — only to learn that she can’t hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else’s past.
Three young men, restless and consumed by unfulfilled desires, drift through Madrid forming a volatile and toxic friendship. Their resentment toward women grows into a shared language of anger, pushing them into a spiral of reckless acts, broken relationships, and self-destruction. As their lives begin to unravel, each of them is forced to confront the darkness they’ve nurtured — and to face the uncomfortable truth about who they are and what they fear becoming.
Misfortune sends a weary ex-caretaker, a self-destructive rebel, and a spacey hipster on contrasting journeys throughout Los Angeles as they battle their inner demons in search of the one thing that will turn their world to color.
When the ugliness of life becomes unbearable, only beauty in death can set you free. This "linguistic thriller" force-feeds the viewer a non-verbal banquet they won't soon forget, giving new meaning to "reading between the lines". Naomi is a woman with a calling. A calling to deliver divine vengeance. Disgusted by the irreparable hideousness of the people that surround her, she sets out on a mission to correct it in the only way she knows how, even if it costs her her soul. But maybe beauty ain't worth all that.
Minna and Leo run into each other by chance at a bar. As they walk together throughout the evening, sharing conversations and quiet moments, something begins to form between them.
Michaela tries her best to be a good person.
Surrounded by the vivid memories of her beloved, Mia wanders and travels through another dimension. There, in the City of Hidden Things, she discovers that she can not only see her lost friend, but the memories lost throughout her life.
14-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. She is not wanted by them, nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. Years pass. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call.
Shrimp explores the strange, interwoven and often hilarious daily lives of the women and men who work and play in a Los Angeles BDSM den.