After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
When the temperamental Sylvie (17) is told that she has to give up her child when it’s born, she decides to escape the youth institution where she’s placed. In her eyes it’s the only solution to prevent that her child will have the same institutionalized youth as she endured.
A girl wraps her grandmother in a spiral of fantasy, causing amnesia to her.
Faced with the loss of his friend and the urges of withdrawal, a heroin addict embarks on an unexpected journey with a young boy to find a lost dog.
Ballad for Billy the Kid
George, an elderly man suffering with dementia, is still struggling with the loss of his wife. Years later, his niece is helping him around the house, but things take a strange turn, when a mysterious woman starts turning up in George's house.
A conversation over dinner, between a married couple and a weary traveller, leads to unexpected revelations
After miscarrying for the second time, Genevieve struggles with disappointment, grief, and her well-intentioned husband.
Right before the opening ceremony of the newly opened Ilsung Art Museum, the museum director says that the pig’s head offered on the ceremonial table is not smiling. One of the museum staffs, Daeho, must find the best smiling pig’s head, while battling through his nervous breakdown.
Two astronauts fight for survival and the chance to return home, after their ship suffers a water leak.
A scientist has been attacked and a secret recipe stolen, so a private detective duo is hired to unravel the mystery.
The coming of age of Bram, a young boy navigating growing up with his best friend amidst complex feelings and sexual discovery.
Techniquement Si Simple
A stowaway from Sierra Leone ends up as an asylum seeker in South-Wales
Short comedy
The Male Gaze is a new series of releases from New Queer Visions that showcases short LGBTQ films from across the world. The first instalment, First Kiss, brings together five shorts that are based around men experiencing romantic and/or sexual interaction with other men for the first time. It takes in films from Sweden, Indonesia, USA, Australia and France giving a rounded look at how similar experiences are depicted across the world. The films are: Naked [Naken] (2013); Pria (2017); Walk With Me (2018), One Night Only (2018); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016).
Izaro and Clara, two teenagers of 17, work as supervisors at the summer camps. On a hot day, Clara kisses her friend passionately. Izaro, full of desire but stunned, is barely able to handle what has happened, but she is ready to follow Clara wherever she wants to take her.
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, came face-to-face for the first and only time. A third man, Lord Bertrand Russell was also present, acting as umpire of the event. The meeting - which lasted only 10 minutes - did not go well. To this day, no one can agree precisely what took place in those fiery minutes. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers, Wittgenstein and Popper, had come to blows armed with red-hot fire pokers!
Following his mother's wishes, Jo, a reclusive young tailor from Tokyo embarks on a solitary journey across Japan.
A mother and daughter are working together in the famliy butcher store savagely torn between love and hate.