Break Free

King

Nina, a 13-year-old pickpocket with a sharp and wise look, is checking the content of a man's wallet she has just stolen. She is staring at the unknown family pictures with curiosity and sadness - A little later, Nina is captured in her next attempt to steal. Surprisingly, the victim Yana refuses to surrender Nina to the police and decides to pay a little attention to the girl, taking her lunch.

Julian is a melancholic teenager on holiday at the family cottage. His holiday gets a twist when a mysterious neighbor confuses him. A summertime coming-of-age drama.

Reclusively withdrawn Tobias is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. Here, he meets the boy Emil, a boy with an entirely different view on life and the situation he and Tobias are in. The two boys develop a close friendship that puts the mind and boundaries of Tobias to the test.

A teenage boy is in love with his straight best friend, but a traumatic experience has changed the dynamics between them.

A part of the MuTe Track stories: Lea struggles to juggle her schedule of practicing as an idol trainee and secretly working a part-time job. Her mother's birthday is coming close so she works twice as hard in order to buy a present. However, her little sister accidentally catches what she has been hiding.

Norival, has 41 years old, is a widower and father of Pedro, age 5. To support his child, Norival does small jobs in various farms across the country. The movie 'Pains' follows a day in their life during the harvest season of sugarcane. During this period Norival and his son live in Minas Gerais' countryside, in Brazil's southeast, in small city called Pains. As a cane cutter, Norival struggle to raise money and provide a good education for his child.

A single and apparently humdrum scene in which various days all blend into one. A couple is having breakfast in the kitchen. He is older, greyer, more anguished than she, who is light, pretty and giddy. A morning like any other, were it not for the secret fact that it would be their last together.

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.

Himokawa Rhapsody

12-year-old Terry is in emergency care with guardians after his mother’s arrest. Cheeky and living with a disability, he outwits one guardian and connects with the other in a surprising way.

A doctor with the ability to visit people's dreams helps a young woman confront the terrifying reality of her nightmare

After fighting with her boyfriend on the street, in Brussels' African neighbourhood, Eva escapes into a hair salon. The women in the salon initially support her, seeing a woman in distress. But, when they find out what the fight was about, opinions differ.

12-year-old Mira is fascinated by her synchronized swimming trainer and tries to get closer to her, which quickly puts both of them in a situation that’s difficult to interpret.

They used to spend every summer here, but now the daughters have grown up, the parents are divorced and the wooden cabin at the lake has to be cleared out. Those four, once a family, come together again for a whole weekend - and the feelings and memories of the past are closer than they thought.

Arielle's path changes forever when she befriends a young man whose fate rests on the outcome of his journey home from prison.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Laurent is a thirty year old dreamer. The day he gets dumped by his girlfriend, he has to go back to his parents and discovers he has testicle cancer. His whole vision of life and priorities are then going to change.

The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.

Jeanne, 17, enjoys the last days of summer before getting back to high school. One morning, with her little sister Camille, they decide to run away from the police station where they live with their father to see the ocean one last time. On the beach, Jeanne meets a young surfer. He’s handsome, she’s intrigued. Jeanne feels a strange desire invading her.