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3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.

Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation. The film tells the story of this quest: difficult and dangerous, but essential to the health of democracy. A story in which resistance becomes a form of survival.

As prom night approaches, a student admired by everyone begins to unravel beneath the pressure of living up to the image she has spent years creating.

A grandmother’s decline forces her daughter and granddaughter to address their own inter-generational divide.

Two boxers linked by friendship see their destiny change after a tragic event.

Ya están viniendo

Haunted by a strange pain in her side whose cause she cannot explain, a young woman examines her body and the possible causes of her increasingly severe illness. Only a friend, a doctor and a florist helped her.

In a strange place where daily broadcasts require everyone to “keep the silence”, the long-isolated residents of Edifice 129, trapped in their apartments and by distant memories, creep forwards, day by day. / Edifice 129 is a particular collaborative project, created by filmmakers across three countries. In the midst of the COVID-19 lock-downs, Linda Gasser — director of the Arc Film Festival in Mainz, Germany — invited filmmakers to join her Creatives Across Borders initiative. The aim was to meet via Zoom, support each other, and talk film, but talking film soon turned into developing a film. Meeting regularly, sometimes weekly, four writer/directors and a digital 3D artist created short films designed to work both as standalone projects and, when inter-cut, as one cohesive story, despite being filmed in Germany, the UK and Malta, and with the filmmakers never having met in person until after the films were finished.

Following a shocking on-air disturbance, a curious Stage Manager begins to suspect that something is deeply off about the talk show she works for, and its eccentric host.

Stacy aka Ashley Sweet, an actress in porn movies, has an abusive boyfriend who is dangerously jealous.

A man obsessed with motivational and right wing culture war videos goes on a hollow road trip of discovery.

After his daughter's illness forces him to go into the debt of a loan sharking company, which eventually ruined his career, Zakari, a withdrawn and shy bodybuilder and fitness trainer, must return to a life he had given up to seek vengeance.

Bom te Encontrar

Caio is a deeply religious young man, living in the shadow of his brother, Alberto. While Alberto challenges norms and embraces life, Caio feels trapped by his beliefs. In a moment of desperation, Caio murders Alberto and stages his death as a suicide, convincing himself that he acted in God’s name.

Unsuccessful actor Ben unexpectedly becomes the full-time parent of his nine-year-old daughter, Zoey, whom he has only seen every other weekend, after her mother is hospitalized following an overdose. Shot over a span of ten years, ZOEY & BEN follows their journey through life's triumphs and setbacks, charting Ben's transformation from a self-absorbed dreamer into a compassionate family man, and Zoey's evolution from a traumatized little girl into a confident young woman.

A little girl learns the hard way what it means to be the perfect daughter. This remaster takes Relpy's first creative adventure in this live recording of a short play featuring a hit song from the 2010s.

Belo Horizonte Central

Sofia lives in isolation with her father in a house filled with silence, fear, and memories of her missing mother. The girl has never ventured beyond the familiar walls of her home and has never heard the noise of the city—she could only imagine it, building a miniature city of her dreams from the fragments around her. One evening, a boy who had gotten lost in the forest bursts into their lives, and this encounter will change Sofia’s life forever.

Sara

Five old friends reunite at a country house to celebrate Michael's birthday. Over a night of card-playing and heavy drinking, their fragile bond reaches a breaking point when buried grudges and toxicity rise to the surface.