The story begins with the boxing lives of two urban Indigenous youths, Liu Li-Chen and Su Jing-Wen. Gifted with exceptional talent, Li-Chen won a national championship in junior high school, only to fall into confusion after entering high school—caught between boxing, academic expectations, and his Indigenous identity. As he struggles to find his path, his performance in the ring declines, dealing a heavy blow to his confidence. Jing-Wen, from the Nanjing Indigenous community in Sanxia, New Taipei City, is seen as a promising Olympic boxer of her generation. Yet deep down, she is uncertain about her future in boxing. The only reason she continues training is the weight of others’ expectations. Despite growing up in an urban Indigenous community, she finds no real sense of belonging in the city.

Imagine watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. HEROIC is a heart-palpitating behind-the-scenes look into the studio of Master Sculptor Sabin Howard as he races a deadline to complete a lifetime project in just 4 years: with the world watching. One sculptor's brute force talent in the face of an impossible task-- a visionary punching up through the bureaucracy. It's not just about the art: sculpting serves the world in honoring veterans. Conflict in the studio: everybody gives everything. Love, betrayal, treachery. Who will rise and who will fall?

An aspiring actor goes to an audition where his true talents will be put to the test.

Created by Indigenous director Piratá Waurá with producers Studio Kwo XR, Kamukuwaká takes us deep into the Amazon to the struggle of the Wauja people. Stewards of Brazil's first demarcated indigenous territory, they defend their homeland against farmers, loggers, wildfires and climate change. Drawing on ancient myths and their hyperconnected youth, the Wauja stand as a beacon of resilience. Through intimate 360° filming and 3D scanned environments, Piratá brings his people's wisdom in their Arawak language to global audiences, so we may reconnect to Nature as we face an uncertain future.

Inspired by the Yunnanese concept of chit-chatting, the film gently moves through the everyday lives of Yunnanese women navigating the northern Thai-Myanmar border. From doorsteps to coffee shops, the camera lingers to capture fragments of memories, histories of flight, and the echoes of lives shaped by conflict.

A horror short by Michael Edwards

Inspired by the oceanic novel Black Wings by Taiwanese Indigenous Yami/Tao writer Syaman Rapongan, this immersive documentary transforms audience readings through AI speech recognition-driven response into a collective literary ritual, resonating with the author’s voice and memories between MR and projection space.

"Mom made it home alive from the street protest again today!" As soon as Zainab Entezar opens the door to her home and walks in, she is greeted by her young son and embraces him. She goes to the women’s street protests as though heading to work, and every time she leaves home, she fears she may never see her son again.

An eccentric French opera singer living in St. Petersburg reaches the final round of a prestigious vocal competition at the Kremlin. But to gain recognition, he will have to do more than simply win: he must decide whether he is willing to trade his freedom for the conventions of the state-run cultural scene.

Adrift between memories and an endless void, a young man searches for a way back to something he thought he had lost.

Jeff has to go to a date with his sweetheart, Mary, but has an accident and loses his legs. How will he attend the restaurant?

Unable to write for a long time, William Shakespeare embarks on a desperate search for inspiration. But everything he encounters forces him to confront his own legacy and creative burnout.

Twenty-five-year-old influencer Elena wakes up in her room, her world blurred by the side effects of medication and fragmented memories. Confined within this enclosed space, audiences embody Elena, piece together clues step by step, and unearth a heartbreaking, cruel truth. As traumatic memories come rushing back like a tidal wave, Elena must confront her past. This time, the audience will make the choice for her: to succumb to an endless cycle of agony, or to bravely step into an unknown future.

The year is 2023, and elections are nearing in Goma, a Congolese city of one million people situated near the border with genocide-ravaged Rwanda. It is a region rich in valuable natural resources, where bloody conflicts over ethnic and economic issues have been raging for three decades, devastating eastern Congo. Two members of the La Lucha civil society movement decide to abandon activism in favour of a career in politics. Espoir, a young activist, stands as a candidate for the National Assembly on behalf of the opposition. Sankara who, confined to a wheelchair, has become a symbol of resistance, joins the outgoing president’s coalition. When rebel troops from the M23 group enter Goma, their dreams of democracy are thrown into doubt.

A clinical trial briefly ends participants' lives to uncover what lies beyond death. Instead of oblivion, they arrive somewhere no one expected. Through an immersive journey driven by music and sensation, The Venue transforms the afterlife into a celebration of existence.

An elderly man brings home a broken fan and wrestles with it for hours until the blades spin again. He has put the blades on backward, but the wind is still cool. "My illness is the same as this fan." Suffering from hearing loss and mental disability from a fall, he collects discarded objects in a small patch of woods in the heart of Haeundae and builds a world of his own. His granddaughter, who enrolled at art college only to lose the desire to draw, begins instead to capture her grandfather’s world with her camera. His world is full of useless things and incomprehensible happenings, but she willingly joins him on his outings.

Separated from his incarcerated mother at birth, the filmmaker searches for her identity and uncovers deep ancestral bloodlines. As he gets closer to this life-altering truth, he navigates his way through systems designed to keep him in the dark.

At the 2024 National Blind Football Championship, China’s youngest team of all time stepped onto the field — the Xinjiang Blind Football Team, with an average age of 15.