In the Shadowlands

In Seoul, a Korean girl is passing the French oral exam DELF. Yet the examiner’s questions lead her to speak unexpectedly about her difficult family story. With the stress, her low level of French gets worse, then unconsciously, she starts to express herself with gestures.

Three stories about people at emotional moments in their lifes.

During the student crisis of 1968, Ines, an 18-year-old homosexual, is prevented from attending law school by her family, who believe that this is not the right course for a woman. This awakens in Inês a feeling of injustice, which leads her to accept Julio's invitation to join the high school students' association. The next day, we find out that the student association has been closed since they found a copy of the clandestine newspaper "Avante!" on the premises. The rectory then decides to expel suspicious students, starting a revolt in the high school and an ideological confrontation between the couple of Inês and Adelaide.

Haunted by the ghosts of his past and his angst of his future Roman is determined to prove himself as a boxer. For this dream he is willing to give up on everything: his friends, his health, even his own self.

Everybody has their own dreams and fears. Are we all connected or are we really all alone in this world?

While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never see them again.

Chen Hao-Zhi lives alone with his Grandmother who has Alzheimers and has suffered from a stroke. In order to pay the bills and his grandmother's medical expenses, he goes to work in a gay massage parlor. At first, it was just work...but Hao-Zhi soon finds that he is attracted to some of his clientele, and gets pulled into a world where he loses control of things he thought he could handle.

Leaving the mafia is not that easy...

Two teenagers search for escape and solitude in inner-city London. But even as they find their moment of tranquillity, it’s impossible to escape society’s preconceptions.

Following a young man as he navigates his way through an essay, slowly finding that the subject matter is becoming a part of his life that he can’t shake off.

On the moors of a desolate land where the silence of the wind reigns, a mysterious man challenges four bloodthirsty savages responsible for a horrible crime.

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.

Marius and Ebba are a couple in their late 20s who are in constant conflict, even though they love each other deeply. Every New Year's Eve they try to break up. A story about love and dysfunction told over the course of three years.

A swimmer prepares for the swimming championship final, and hours before the tournament, terrifying and suspicious situations and events happend to him

After June and Charlie break up, Theo finds a scrapbook containing their fondest memories together, and he becomes obsessed with their relationship. He convinces June to try and win Charlie back by recreating moments from the book. Dear June follows the intricacies of a relationship going downhill and explores how straight men view and tokenize sapphic relationships.

As Alex struggles with disturbing hallucinations, his wife Vera tries to help, until they both experience their own profound revelations.

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.

It's 1992. Martin is 17 and he films his daily life with his Hi8 camera. He films anything and everything—his room, the world around him... But never his father, the thought doesn't occur to him. One day he meets Dominique. He's 23 and works as a student monitor at Martin's high school.

A young woman dealing with the psychological aftermath of sexual violence shuffles between experiences both mundane and extraordinary as she attempts to leave her New York City apartment.

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.