Palm of the Hand

Sometimes he feels a tugging in his shoulder, sometimes he thinks his kidneys are failing. Two weeks before his marriage to the beautiful Anne, junior architect Stefan seems to have gathered all the diseases in the world. Drawn from the stress of the wedding preparations, the hypochondriac is in top form. When he overhears a phone call from the family doctor, he mistakenly thinks he is a dead man. Now a substitute husband is needed for Anne.

A palm reader comes between a woman and her boyfriend on a night that will change their lives forever.

An extraordinary film about memory, and specifically the fading memory of an 86-year-old political activist who has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for justice in Argentina. The director’s grandmother, Laura Bonaparte, was one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, formed during the 1970s by women whose children and family members had been disappeared by the Videla military dictatorship. Laura herself lost three children and their partners, including the director’s parents. Today, after a lifetime battling that the disappeared never be forgotten, Laura faces her own struggle to remember.

A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.

Two monks and two children are the only survivors after a sandstorm in Sariput. After the two children, Iti and Nirvana, grow up, they fall in love with each other.

Damul (Bonded Until Death) highlights the ill effects of the Bonded Labour System while narrating the story of a bonded labor who is left with no choice but to steal by his landlord.

Still living in the hoarder's house she grew up in, young adult Dara contemplates moving forward in life.

When a struggling single mother falls for a wealthy heartbreaker, their risky romance could just turn their lives around — or tear their worlds apart.

The Umbrella Movement rocked the entire city of Hong Kong and rewrote the lives of many. After taking part in the Movement, the daughter of a middle-age couple decided to look for a Burmese girl in exile at Thailand due to political persecution. The couple’s world shattered when their daughter’s flight went missing. Grief-stricken but undeterred, the couple followed their daughter’s plan in searching for the elusive Burmese girl. Their journey reveals different paths to cope with grief and to reach closure.

Enormous Terror

Until he was 11, Detlef Kammrath (René Siodla) had a carefree childhood. But now his parents have decided to go their separate ways and divorce - a catastrophe for the boy. The court awards custody to his mother (Karin Schröder), but Detlef harshly rejects his mother's new partner (Gerd Grasse). He sees him as the person responsible for his unhappiness. Hoping to improve the family atmosphere, his mother forbids the boy from meeting his biological father; this leads to Detlef's absolute despair, and he becomes a "case" for child welfare services.

A devout Polish woman living in a small Mexican town endures a suffocating religious routine under her husband’s control, along with the unsettling presence of a mysterious entity dwelling in one of the rooms.

Roni Gingrich is a PTSD survivor and aspiring artist whose buried childhood trauma manifests in the form of sleep paralysis and recurring dreams as she unravels the truth of her past.

A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.

When you are concerned with the needed, you have to understand what they really suffer. Lok-yan is a Form Five student. She is under great pressure of studying. She always stays at home alone and has meals in convenience store. Lam Hong is homeless. One day, they come across each other in the convenience store. Lok-yan is too young for purchasing alcoholic beverage. With the assistance of Lam Hong, Lok-yan could finally enjoy her first taste of beer. They become friends. However, Lok-yan finds out that she could hardly understand the difficulties which Lam Hong is facing.

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Esta Noite Minha Alma Partirá

Carmela (35) is pregnant. Ivan, her current boyfriend, and Marcos, her ex, are gathered at her house. They are friends and coworkers. Carmela acts on pure impulse and announces the news of the pregnancy in front of both of them. In private, Carmela tells Marcos that he is the biological father.

An unfinished love song connects two people in Tokyo and Bangkok. Sota is an overly serious researcher who was suddenly ordered to work in Tokyo. One day he returns from Tokyo to Bangkok and reunites with Kai whom he had feelings for when they were students. Kai is active as a photographer and also pursuing music when they reunite. This makes Sota a bit nervous. Kai, however, is surprised that Sota recalls the 'unfinished song' he once sang for him. The duo slowly grow closer once again, but each have a secret as to why they can't complete the song. Yet this unfinished song connecting the two of them begins to resonate with both once again!

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