South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the woman takes care of her newborn. They will be safe beyond the river, where they are going to abandon their son to some gang members in order to run faster. But the woman secretly hides the desire to keep the baby...
A rock singer, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling photographer with scars of his own.
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
ALVO
Sketch Fragments
Adrian, a young ex-alcoholic trying to start a new life, is living on an addiction treatment farm. When Alex shows up out of nowhere and the two outsiders get closer, he risks to lose everything.
A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. However, his only audience is a deaf and dumb cyborg girl, who is raised by data and has no actual experience with real humans. Can they identify each other’s feeling by the signals of music? As AI rises, how can the last generation of Homo sapiens and posthuman face their fate of desolation?
A story of a hopeless romantic, who's only means of communication are voiced through a sketchbook.
Begoña, Pelayo and María are saying a last goodbye to their mother. Confusion arises when they discover she wanted to be buried in a very special outfit.
When 30-somethings Sam and Jamie lock themselves out in the communal stairwell they're forced to consider that maybe they aren't as close as they thought.
Stofje
Majed discovers that his recently deceased mother used to be a belly dancer. Life is full of unknowns and this is just now becoming clear to him. Torn between his relationship with his now-silent father, and Hanine, the woman who will help him overcome his grief, Majed takes a trip down memory lane into the mysterious past of his mother.
The daughter of a famous ventriloquist decides to put on one last show.
On what should be the most prestigious day of her 8 years on earth, Princess Mahakwe is humiliated in front of the whole school.
Brotherhood An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind is about "Two friends drawn apart by the most common human emotion...Love" Two best friends, Marcus and Vincent are your ideal hoodlums. On a daily routine they drink alcohol, play basketball and idolize women. Stuck in a rut the two are introduced to a young go-getter named Ariana. Through getting to know her a wedge is thrown into Marcus and Vincent's relationship and it might never be repaired. Ego gets in the way and it blinds them.
Seung-Jin and Ji-Seon are high school students who sneak out at night and play. They are friends but what they want is different. Seung-Jin is ashamed of having a father who is too old and Ji-Seon is bored with her daily routine and her family. Seung-Jin wants to be a photographer, so she carries around a camera and one day…
After 15 years of separation, two brothers confront their absent relationship as well as the recent passing of their mother.
Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.
In an isolated and unknown place during a war, a child is forced to flee. Along the way, he sees horse corpses everywhere. Only dead horses. Why? Why have the horses decided to kill themselves?
A case of mistaken identity leads to a heated confrontation between a young Black man and two law enforcement officers.