Bottled Up

On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family's traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in.

An imaginative telling of the story of a Vietnamese American mother-daughter duo who, in their attempt to heal the rift between them, reenact and satirize scenes from celebrated Vietnam War films while depicting a diasporic reality. Two inventive storylines complicate The MOTHERLOAD to levels of absurdity. Both of these glide in and out beneath the narrative backbone of Jessca and Kim’s personal story, and reflect the stunning disconnect between the Vietnamese diaspora and the world’s understanding of their presence.

Jason Lu, a Hongkonger living in LA, works a shift at a restaurant and finds himself in a bizarre situation, and facing a deadly problem.

Co-directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras and subject Thavisouk Phrasavath, this haunting documentary chronicles a refugee family’s epic journey from Laos in the aftermath of the secret war waged by the United States there to New York, where they find themselves fighting a different kind of war on the streets of Brooklyn. Filmed over the course of 23 years, THE BETRAYAL is a visually and emotionally stunning look at the complex ways in which the political shapes the personal.

A stranger carrying the face of the past steps into the innkeeper's world, and his presence threatens to lift the curtain between reality and nightmare.

Gazi Haşim and his friends, who served in the Korean peacekeeping force, miss their days in Korea, but they also feel a deep sadness at being forgotten. During the Syrian civil war, Haşim and his friends are looking for an excuse to return to the front. Finally, the reason they have been searching for has come to them. The veterans make their preparations and set off. They want to reach the front as soon as possible. On their journey, they begin to encounter the ancient stories of Anatolia. They begin to understand, in a tragicomic way, how this land has been home to great civilizations. On the journey to reach their destination, they begin to reflect on their inner struggles and make calculations. On the night of July 15, 2015, they find themselves on the side of a great resistance, caught in the dilemma of whether to go or return.

Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.

Jules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa Noël. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Jules receives a very special letter with an intriguing question...

Gajaman is a henchman of the local politician Magodisthuma. Gajaman's life is turned upside down when Magodisthuma asks him to pick up his daughter and her friend from the airport. The trouble is, Gajaman falls in love with Magodisthuma's daughter immediately as he sees her. Magodisthuma becomes furious when he finds out about this. Gajaman is exiled from his village and he tries to sneak back in with the help of his friend Amdan. The movie revolves around the classic Sri Lankan characters Gajaman and Magodisthuma created by Camillus Perera from newspaper cartoons in the 60s.