The City Wakes Up Early

A Warm Place

Clyde Griffiths dreams of climbing the corporate ladder and making his way into the highest circles of society. In order to fulfill his most cherished dream, Clyde is ready for absolutely anything, he will not even stop before committing a terrible and ridiculous crime...

Three love stories. The same country that condemns them. A queer Guatemalan anthology that explores love between men in a society without LGBTQ+ rights. FIRST: Two teenagers discover their attraction at a party, experiencing that first kiss that changes everything. TRUE: A bitter comedy about an ex who discovers her new boyfriend's secret at his wedding. LAST: Heartbreaking drama about a seven-year, closeted relationship that collapses.

Santiago wants to reveal his HIV diagnosis to his best friends, but discovers they are full of myths and discrimination against HIV-positive people. This short film directly confronts social stigmas while exploring themes of acceptance, fear, and unconditional love.

In a place that offers no hope, Sabreen, burdened by blame and trapped by expectations, yearns for a fleeting moment of freedom to reclaim what remains of herself.

Right to Choose

It is the story of the metamorphosis of an upper-middle-class urban woman named Archana into an aware, considerate, and fearless voice in an indifferent city like Mumbai. A random encounter with a house-help and subsequent events shake her perspective and give an altogether new meaning to life.

In a boarding school in a provincial Siberian town comes a literature teacher, a graduate of a teacher training college. The directness with which the heroine intrudes into the life of the school provokes active resistance from the principal and head teacher. As a result of a series of clashes, the young teacher must leave the boarding school, but her pupils protest, and the directorate is defeated.

LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream, reality and poetry. The contrast is reinforced by the film's visuals, confronting modern art with Gustave Doré's old engravings.

Ana spends the day playing alongside her mother, Elena, with the intention of getting closer to her, as they have been distant lately. A series of phone calls to Elena’s mobile will make Ana suspect that her mother is hiding something more than just her feelings.

The action takes place during perestroika in one of the old Moscow houses on the Arbat, intended for demolition. The tenants have long been evicted, and only 80-year-old Vera Vasilievna does not want to leave, claiming that Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov have been in this house ...

Арбатский мотив. Наследство

During her first year at a conservative, elitist college residence, Marta is driven into a desperate search for the morning-after pill by the sexual taboos around her. As community pressure builds, her peers prepare an initiation ritual no one will forget.

Chiamami, Valentina

Cemento

The wedding day planned by Lala's father is fast approaching. Emil realizes that time is against him and he must act urgently. At that moment, an opportunity arises: Lala's father is leaving town for a few days to prepare for the wedding. Emil asks her brother Zaur for help in saving Lala from this marriage. Zaur, however, is faced with a difficult choice - his father's will, family traditions and influence in society, or loyalty to his friend and protecting his sister from the same fate.

Teo, a gay Guatemalan musician, flees a brutal homophobic attack. Ray, an American doctor, escapes his past after a fatal mistake. When their paths cross, they discover that redemption can come from where they least expect it.

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?

A house. From outside come shouts of what looks like a demonstration. Inside, two children, Luis (six years old) and Ana (eight years old) play while her mother, Carmen, tries tough it out in front of the little ones.