Best Friend

Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where children work and adults play. Benok finds his way to experience how to become a real kid again.

A young musician named Ansel has an unexpected encounter with Niall, an endearing, deaf dancer.

Scott gets a visit from Connor which brings his past back to haunt him, but will it change his future?

A Jewish New Yorker is bedridden patriarch dying of lung cancer, confesses for the first time to son that he was always attracted to men. Despite his long-lasting marriage and faithfulness to wife.

Ryan meets Nathan and they fall in love over the course of their first date. It's only later, as their relationship progresses, that Ryan starts to wonder: is my boyfriend who I thought he was? Am I who I thought I was? They experience joy and pain together, trying to overcome the painful fear of whether or not you can truly know another person.

The Viewpoint

Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.

A young man contemplates and processes the difficulties of life during his journey into becoming the man who he must soon choose to be; doing so by visiting the one place in which he feels the most solitary.

The Tartlet

When Cole develops incredible powers after surviving a lethal city-wide explosion, he has a life-changing decision to make: protect himself and those closest to him or stand up to the ruthless militia taking over the city.

Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.

Le pont de Mauves

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.

When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised. While emptying the attic, Agnès found pieces of 9.5 mm film, dry and folded, almost broken and two small cardboard figures. The film was impossible to project and the film had to be remade. Showing the pieces of film to Jacques he immediately identified La Ballerine. A student from the Fine Arts School of Nantes therefore redrew each shot, frame by frame, on blank 16 mm film.

A couple is overjoyed to welcome their firstborn into the world. Euphoria slips away when they return to an unwinnable argument over the name they will give their son.

A young Malay girl is separated from her mother at a Pasar Malam (night market) and meets a cat who brings her deep into the underbelly of the bazaar where fantasy meets reality.

A story of solitude, serendipity and kindness during a perennial late afternoon downpour in the heart of the city as two souls try to find their way home in the rain.

An innocent friendship that blossomed between bookshelves of the old National Library that grew into a love story that would find its way back decades later in search of memories amongst little red bricks.

A look at life’s bittersweet simplicity as we follow a boy and a girl from childhood to old age with their years marked by Singapore playgrounds from days gone by.