After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
Par mīlestību pašreiz nerunāsim
Danaji, a farmer from the state of Maharashtra in rural India, is accompanied by his eight-year old son Ganya to the city to sell his onions at the Mandi (market). While the child is enamoured by the sights and sounds of the place, the farmer has to fight a Kafkaesque battle to find the right price for his produce.
In an apartment after a party, an upset young man and his friends have to find a way to escape after the owner of the place locks them inside.
Invernadero
Regina, 75, takes every opportunity to line up in the government's arduous medical assistance dole out program just to secure mitigating financial help for her sick husband's increasing hospital bill. In the last two hours before she reaches the end of the line and receive help, Regina bears with her own debilitating illness due to old age, confronts a fixer condoning corruption, and temporarily leaves the line to look for her missing granddaughter who wanders off.
Além
Utilizing backdrops from Simon Fraser University with words from the poet Chantal Gibson's Ad Hominem, the film reflects on colonization in Canada, especially in the ways their influence permeates in formative institutions like colleges. Done through the lens of a photographer, it encroaches on the frustration between colonial erasure and gauging one's participation in that erasure, whether by complicit involvement, ignorance, or inaction
Fantasia no Escuro
A young superhero faces his greatest moral test. His former best friend, now a malicious and dangerous criminal, is bound in chains. The hero is forced to reckon with a painful decision, one that challenges him beyond any physical confrontation.
Estrada, Lua e Noite
A young wrestler’s only way out of his dead end town and the trauma tied to it is to fight his way onto the Australian team. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, his fight to escape turns inward, trapping him alongside the very trauma he cannot outrun.
Gasolina
Abused by his human owner, an AI companion experiences emotions he was never programmed to feel.
What is love? A Swiftie tries to find out by kidnapping her ex and forcing him to listen to her definition.
Ben, an Iranian refugee and rideshare driver in Los Angeles, becomes entangled in a criminal underground when a passenger asks him to help save her twin sister from a human trafficking ring run by Russian mobsters.
David, a gay high school senior, embarks on an end-of-summer road trip with his best friend Annie. Along the way, he begins to question what he thought he understood about his identity.
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.