Plastic Surgery

Seventeen-year-old Blake struggles to care for his dying grandfather, the founder of a fading Florida roadside attraction. Plagued by religious guilt, responsibility for his younger brother, and a desperate need to prove he isn’t destined to follow in his father’s violent footsteps, Blake hides his grandfather on the property after a freak accident. As the search for them intensifies, Blake becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and paranoia, convinced he must preserve his grandfather’s life at all costs. But buried family trauma, cosmic forces, and a mysterious tunnel beneath the orange groves begin to unravel Blake’s grip on reality.

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

Pies y corazones

A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.

A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.

After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.

Talvez o Vento Saiba seu Nome

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.

In this ultraviolent, retro-wave gorefest set in a dystopian landscape, an alley rat is chosen to save the crumbling planet from an alien sentinel.

Set during the Vietnam war, Firebase follows American soldier Hines through an ever-deepening web of science fiction madness.

A blossoming writer learns that his artistic hero isn't all he thought he was in this satirical exploration of how one separates the art from the artist.

Ivan Cutler is a man on a mission - he spreads the good word throughout the town lands of Ireland in the 1950s. But he hides a sinister secret - he has a penchant for murdering those who are kind enough to invite him into their homes. However, when he calls to the rural farmhouse of Ma and Da Taggart, he meets two people who prove more than a match for him.

Luka moves to a small coastal town to live with his aunt, while his parents are in the middle of a divorce. A sense of numbness seems to hang above the town, but there is also Jana, a girl from the neighborhood who loves to sunbathe. The end of a lazy summer is near...

Juno, a twenty-year-old girl becomes obsessed with Pan. Her obsession turns her into an animal.

Montreal 1952, teenager Samuel brings his friend Julien to the neighbourhood steam bath for his weekly routine with Dad. Julien’s first time will be a day to remember.

A troubled "twunk" ventures down a destructive path, searching for a solution to his problems and a way to ensure his sister's continued support.