Steel City Bloom

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Un día de marzo

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.

A kaleidoscopic perspective into one woman's experience with self-dissolution and urban alienation.

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence.

A person attempts to rid their apartment of cat urine smell.

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.

A man engulfed in the suffocating grip of loss finds his life fragmented. Struggling to navigate through his emotional fog, his mother suggests a retreat to her cabin – but an ancient entity that thrives on sorrow has taken root. The New England winter punctuates this love letter to creeping horror and slow cinema.

Reya’s World delves into the raw and poignant struggle of a young woman navigating the depths of depression. Feeling trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of isolation, Reya finds solace and gradual healing through small moments of self-connection and genuine friendships, gradually lifting the heavy burden that envelops her.

Allie and Jacob are inseparable best friends, rambling on in between playing gigs for empty crowds. But when a dream job is set to separate them, tensions and emotions arise in unexpected ways.

A counselor/psychiatrist suspects a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell, and possibly caused by a deep psychological fracture.

Itamar and Thomas share a bed, walls, an apartment and electricity bills. Thomas commands, manages, and criticizes; Itamar is silent and listens. Between the apartment walls, frustration and loneliness unfold.

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

In the City of Saints, a woman's prayer gets painted and a failed cinematographer soothes his bitterness by uploading his recordings of film screenings for pay.

A thoughtful and meditative coming of age film that follows a meandering young adult. He, while on a call with a friend, realizes that it is the end of summer. Over the last few days of summer he struggles to face the nothingness of his future.

A woman gets lost in the woods.

A day in the life of a waitress/webcam model as she serves customers, deals with the world around her, and remembers why she does all of it in the first place.

Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukiko's face. Meanwhile, Haru has been spending days following Tsuyoshi discretely and checking his expressions.

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.