Left Alone

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.

Elzan has been framed. He must prove his innocence before his family suffers the consequences. The victims keep falling, and a secret from the past is uncovered. Who is truly behind all this chaos?

David, a man who rejects the Christian faith, is in pursuit of his newly religious son, Ollie, whom he had driven out of the home.

Praiano

"Oregano" is the story of a dysfunctional and very poor family, made up of four members: the mother, a former singer who failed in her career and expresses her frustration through anger and violence; the father, a former butcher who had to close his business after the 2001 crisis and was confined to a wheelchair; the youngest son, who does not finish elucidating his sexuality, escapes from reality building a universe of fantasies, but at the same time seeks to become independent; and the eldest daughter, who questions her identity and that of her family, realizing that she is the same age as her father. The family lives in a small house where individual conflict and frustrations are combined with group ones, which unleashes a chain of events that leads to the rupture of their traditional scheme.

A Tunisian couple, Dali and Mariem, welcomes their first child, only to discover the baby is intersex, with biological sex characteristics that do not fit typical male or female definitions. Confronted with societal pressure, family expectations, and their own uncertainties, they struggle to navigate the stigma and challenges imposed by rigid gender norms. As they grapple with decisions about identity, acceptance, and the future, the family’s bonds are tested, forcing them to confront deeply ingrained beliefs about gender, society, and parenthood.

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

A man attempting to make a video tutorial soon realizes the task is more difficult than he previously imagined.

Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he becomes a statue.

A young man eats alone at an LA cevicheria, processing his relationships, grief and questionable behaviours over a phone call.

A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

A man is on the run, but who or what is he running away from?

After an unexpected tragedy, two brothers reach out to an old friend for help, but her untamed boyfriend gets in the way.

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

A young woman reluctantly spends the night with an old fling...but at what cost?