Heatwave

Rhiannon’s world is small - a part-time library job, half-finished plans, and a friendship circle that’s moving on without her. When Odelia, the daughter of her mum’s oldest friend, turns up to stay for a few days, Rhiannon braces for the worst. Years ago they couldn’t stand each other. Odelia was the golden child - driven, polite, competitive - everything Rhiannon wasn’t. But this time, things are different. They walk, talk, and remember. Beneath the teasing and contradictions, a new connection grows - tentative, confusing, and impossible to ignore. As old friends Beth and Kerri re-enter the picture, tensions rise, jealousies flare, and Rhiannon begins to question not just how she feels about Odelia - but what she wants for herself. Flunk: Preferences is a queer coming-of-age story about rediscovery, first love, and learning that sometimes, the people who annoy you the most are the ones who understand you best.

After a traumatic assault, a gay man battles crippling anxiety and fear of the outside world, anchored by the quiet, unwavering love of his partner, who becomes his strength when his own falters.

A chance spark in a cafe sends two lovers into a surreal mud wrestling ring where they must find a common rhythm while their friends demand a fight.

Two ice hockey players try to love each other while dealing with violence and loneliness

An awkward tech billionaire joins a popular Bachelor-type dating show in an attempt to reform his image and find true love, but unexpectedly ends up falling for one of the show’s producers.

On the Road Again

Elmer Jackson, a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s, struggles to bring up his 4 young boys after the death of his wife. He is horrified when the government (citing trumped-up charges of parental neglect) places the boys into various foster homes and institutions, unaware of the abuse that boys would then be subjected to. The conditions imposed by the court and the difficulties caused by the Depression make Elmer's determined and vigorous quest to find his boys extremely difficult. His second wife helps him to regain custody.

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

Set in a high school navigating Indonesia’s new “Merdeka Curriculum,” this graduation film follows a group of students grappling with the pressures of modern education. As projects pile up and expectations rise, they begin questioning the very system that promised them freedom. Through reflection, resistance, and growth, they discover what it truly means to learn, and to be heard.

After a drug deal goes horribly wrong, Celia is pulled into a surreal odyssey of self-discovery. Drifting through a distorted world, she encounters temptation, desire, and paranoia as her sense of self begins to unravel and the line between reality and fantasy begin to blur around her

After a deal gone wrong, a timid first-year student forms an unlikely friendship with a stranger he meets on campus.

When Tom shows up late to an assessment, he’s thrown into an unexpected, surreal purgatory-like place called L.I.M.B.O. Trapped in this strange, bizarre state, he’s forced to confront his habits, face the consequences of procrastination and find a way to move forward - or risk being stuck in L.I.M.B.O forever…

After learning an online friend is considering suicide, Makoto, a young non-binary hikikomori, must try to save her while remaining trapped at home due to fear of the outside world.

A trans short film that centers trans stories—by and for trans people, both in front of and behind the camera. Elizabeth arrives in the city with fierce eyes, wild hair, sharp nails, and a suitcase full of fragments of past tenderness. She drifts through encounters with men who, like cigarette smoke, warm the body, fade away, and slowly kill. Each takes and leaves something behind. Elizabeth accepts this cycle, knowing that on full-moon nights she must keep away from beaches, forests, and trousered men. The moon awakens the beast within her—sharp-clawed, born to survive, feeding on her pain. She hides it, distancing herself from flesh when it claws at her skin. But one man comes too close, witnessing her under the full moon, seeing her beast, her besta fubana, in her most fragile state.

In a dystopian future, a recluse uses VR to live vicariously through the memories of a dead couple.

Four teens from around the world step off the path they were told to follow — and take the road less travelled.

Maria and Suzy try to find themselves within their confusing relationship after a fateful night, struggling to overcome the indifference they both express in this love and to figure out how to deal with their relationship after what happened.

On his death bed, a dying old man succumbs to an unspecified terminal illness. His mind polluted, as the symptoms pivots his stability, a series of trancisdental hallucinations conflicts against two personas, both past and present. Denying his perseverance to reconcilile with the man he once knew.

Gaspar and Tadeo are in a relationship. However, each of them sees it in a different way.

Ham, a 15-year-old boy gifted in music, is forbidden by his mother from playing piano after his father abandon the family from his music career. Ham must choose between following his dream or protecting his family’s fragile bond.