Catarina is a young woman from the Baixada Fluminense who struggles to adapt to the changes in her life and in the Brazilian political scene. Still mourning the death of her mother and hopeless about her future prospects, she sees her adult life taking shape abruptly. While trying to learn how to grow up and how to deal with all this pressure, Catarina ends up developing a strange obsession with fishes.
Three best friends celebrate their university graduation with big dreams and bigger promises - but a year later, grief and growing apart force them to confront the brutal reality of growing up.
Set in Goianinha, a small town in the Brazilian countryside, the film follows the journey of young people who feel out of place in their own land. As they question their identity and sense of belonging, they face challenges in an environment where gender, racial, and sexual diversity still encounters resistance. While navigating both internal and external conflicts, they realize that, despite the town’s limitations, certain memories can redefine their connection to it.
In the borderlands of farming and herding in northern China, a Mongolian horse awaits the fate of castration, while a 10-year-old boy, determined to protect it, must confront violence and cruelty beyond his understanding.
A high schooler discovers his parents have been harboring a supernatural creature. He and his bandmates must face off with the creature as it escapes and terrorizes their suburban town.
Graduate student Yi-wen gets on the wrong train and meets a former classmate from her past, Wei-chiang, who is now a university lecturer. The two alight together at the same station when they both find themselves having boarded the metro headed for the wrong direction. The two end up going to dinner and bumble about in awkward, fair-weather catching up when they both realise something about themselves that they have never openly admitted over the years.
Two friends reconnect at their childhood haunts in the heartlands. As the night lengthens, their conversations draw out their sense of entrapment within the city, and how far removed their present selves have become from fleeting childhood aspirations.
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from their surroundings.
In her ward, a young nurse, Jenka, becomes close to the hospitalized wife of the director of the local steel company, Pšeničky, who is admired by the local women. Mrs. Pšeničková recovers, but continues to suffer from anxiety and the persistent idea that she is dying. Jenka therefore takes on the responsibility of home care and helps her overcome the crisis with her simple, human approach. Her patient becomes emotionally attached to her, and Mr. Pšenička also finds a close person in Jenka and tries to win her over. The selfless nurse penetrates deeper into their complicated relationship and, under increasing pressure from both sides, experiences her first truly bitter life experience.
What does marriage, love, intimacy mean? What should they be? Stella met his long lost lover by chance. He lived in a marriage maintained by lies and interests. Stella began to try to explore the possibility of a promising relationship with him. She questioned marriage and most hopeless relationships, but she was frustrated again and again in the process. Cast
In auteur Rowan Benda's absurdist family drama, estranged quadruplets reunite as their childhood land is overrun by a group of beavers and family secrets threaten to unfold.
A community police officer is assigned as first party secretary to push an old-neighborhood renewal. He wins residents’ trust but collapses from overwork; his family honors his wish to donate organs, turning “small” neighborly issues into a truly big deal.
An overworked adult reunites with his childhood imaginary friend after passing by a toy store.
An unusual office worker tries to put an end to his arrogant co-worker’s immoral actions but he has to deal with his talking stapler.
In a magical realist Queens, NY, a young Indian girl struggles with her first pair of glasses as she waits to merge with her deceased grandma's soul during the funeral-- an age-old family tradition.
When a powerful media tycoon becomes the target of an anonymous hacker, his world begins to collapse. What starts as a cyberattack soon escalates into a high-stakes battle threatening his reputation, wealth, and loved ones. Trapped in a deadly mind game, he must fight back before everything he owns is destroyed.
A writer tells us about a story, of which he played a part in, between a Painter and the painter’s Muse.
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
The Boys who's try to revenge from what happened to them when they were kidnapped by the village leader who wanted to take away their freedom.
When a struggling musician crosses paths with a budding playwright haunted by survivor's guilt, their unexpected connection forces them both to confront their deepest traumas and rewrite their futures.