plants with spikes or thorns

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

TV-Dad has never had a family of his own, and when he finds out that he is going to die, he creates TV-Dad, a series of videotapes that contain his fatherly and husbandly advice in actions. Follow Judy when she purchases the TV-Dad video services and has a child with it as we watch how her life plays out.

In a post-apocalyptic world devoid of plant life, a lone survivor fights desperately to reclaim hope and life. Upon unexpectedly discovering seeds, she risks everything to cultivate humanity’s last plant.

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Alma (20), who has ADHD, works as a beekeeper but dreams of a life in the city. The day before her university exam, Pietro, her father, expresses his concerns about his daughter’s future. During the test, Alma struggles against the distractions caused by her condition but is interrupted by a tender memory: a bee buzzing around her. This event takes her back in time, to her first encounter with the beehives. What at first seems chaotic reveals itself to her as the most intelligent of natural structures.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Experimental short movie mostly made of still photos. An old assassin lives on a yacht, in a port city. One day, the sister of a woman he killed appears.

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

Influence

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

A conversation Harper has with herself in her own head, interjected with the moments in which she is recalling. Some sort of event sent her into an existential state of mind, where she can't help but think about who she is, and how much control she really has over her life.

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

A family in eco-fever. The Schuhmann Weils are radical environmentalists and mother their 19-year-old son like a small child. One day, when a chunk of ice hits the family home and the family seek shelter in a bomb shelter, Tom seizes the opportunity to escape to freedom and self-determination...

In an abandoned farm, young Tatu is tricked by three older kids into believing that if he overcomes certain challenges he will become a MAPUTO, a supernatural being. Tatu remains resolute in his pursuit even as the tasks become increasingly dangerous.

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.

Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.

After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.