Betania, a 65-year-old matriarch, is on a turbulent ride on the ever-shifting sands of time. In the wake of her husband’s death, she leaves behind a lifetime of memories and a simple, agrarian existence to move back to the village where she was born. Pushed by the ancestral sound of Maranhao, Bet...

Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worl...

Kamal (Adam Ali) has fled Iraq to try to enter “Fortress Europe.” At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has only three days to escape.

Based on actual events taking place on the so-called “Balkan Route” into Europe, Ha...

There has been an invasion. Eami lost her own kind, and so she started flying. The Asoja, the bird-god-woman of the native Ayoreo Totobiegosode culture, brings the memories of the past, present and future. She was a tiger, a plant, a jaguar. Today, she is Eami, a five-year-old girl whose name mea...

Medea (Salome Demuria), a young Georgian immigrant who works in a St. Petersburg antique workshop, goes to view an apartment in the city's historic center. The prime piece of real estate is available for a low price because its cantankerous owner, Vadim (Sergey Dreyden), comes as part of the deal...

In exchange for his overdue rent, Kutani, an out-of-work director in Japan’s declining adult film industry, is recruited by his landlord to evict Iseki, a struggling screenwriter. When a rain-drenched Kutani arrives at his door, Iseki invites him in to dry off. Over drinks, the men recount their ...

Secondhand bookstore owner Tada (Seto Koji) can’t forget Ikka (Sato Honami), a former colleague at his old job, despite the fact that one of his regular customers, Misaki (Kawai Yumi), persistently asks him to marry her. Meanwhile, Ikka feels overwhelmed by preparations for her wedding to Ryosuke...

A writer summons four actresses to rehearse her play in the country. Over the course of a week, the girls begin to measure each other through the material. As the creative process gains momentum, they share their yearnings and personal stories. Soon a summer story unfolds about princesses, horses...

Momoko (Noriko Eguchi) is a 41-year-old housewife who has been married to her husband, Mamoru, for eight years. She meticulously maintains their home and devotedly attends to his every needs, but all her care and attention masks the emotional rift that has developed between them. Mamoru has grown...

Aida (Gresa Pallaska), a tough business woman living in a small Albanian town on the shores of Lake Ohrid, works a lucrative job as city planner until her comfortable life is unexpectedly shattered when her son is accused of sexual assaulting a classmate. Convinced of his innocence, Aida begins h...

Transgender sex worker Kristina lives alone in Belgrade with her cats and antiques collection while undergoing non-hypnotic regression sessions. She accidentally meets Marko, a former theology student, and despite their different backgrounds, the two begin a relationship. In her search for antiqu...

One morning, six-year-old Amalka wakes up and hears her family arguing behind closed doors. Something about being unhappy, fairy tales, and doing everything wrong. Upon getting the adults' attention, she is told her grandparents will be taking her on a day trip. After an idyllic afternoon spent a...

In a stairwell of an old apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur, a woman and her daughter take refuge. They meet, play games and attempt to interact in this stolen time. The mother thinks she knows what is best for the daughter, while the daughter longs for a promise from the mother. Later, they retur...

On a once-sandy Thailand beach that is now surrounded by artificial sea walls, two young women meet. Shati is a local Muslim woman from a conservative family. Fon is an activist-turned-visual artist, in town for the her new art exhibition. The more they get to know each other, the deeper Shati fe...

Paris, 1982. Frank and Serge are in charge of policing the Parisian porn industry. To crack down on money laundering and infiltrate the mafia's control of the red light district around Place Pigalle, they take over a peep show riddled with debt. Looking for a way to jump-start the business, they ...

After his father goes missing, fifteen-year-old Mateo takes responsibility for his two younger siblings. But when a confrontation with a classmate escalates to violence and leads to the boy's accidental death, Mateo seeks help from Berto, a local gang leader whom he barely knows. Berto introduces...

Aoi is a seventeen-year-old mother living in Okinawa who drops out of school so she can work an illegal job as a nightclub hostess for rent money. Struggling to protect her child while trapped in a seemingly never-ending cycle of poverty and violence with her deadbeat husband, she turns to ever m...

Under a strict military curfew, Salah (Kais Nashif), a grieving Palestinian father, sets out towards the Israeli border carrying the body of his recently deceased son in a duffel bag. While fending off the terrible heat, Miri (Shany Verchik), a pregnant single woman, decides to help him no matter...

Italy, 1900. Agata gives birth to a stillborn baby girl. According to Catholic doctrine, the souls of unbaptized infants are condemned to Limbo. Hearing about a place in the mountains where infants can be brought back to life, Agata sets out on a perilous journey to reach the mysterious sanctuary...

In a rural Indonesian town, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper of an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family his ancestors have served for centuries. When Purna returns home to run for mayor, Rakib bonds with the older gentleman, who becomes his mentor. But after a...

Marie (Laure Calamy) is a 39-year-old independent prostitute, a passionate member of the sex workers union, and a single mother. When her rebellious son, who wants to pursue a career in cooking, gets kicked out of school, she tries enrolling him in a prestigious French culinary program. But when ...

Seventeen-year-old Meng leads an unfulfilling existence in Singapore, living at home with his austere, hard-working exterminator father, while being coerced and bullied by his peers at school. Everything changes when he is forced into compulsory military service early and embarks on a life-alteri...

When the son of Ukrainian immigrant Irina (Vita Smachelyuk) claims to have been brutally attacked, everyone in the Czech border town in which they live stands up in solidarity for her family and condemns the three Roma boys who allegedly committed the crime. But as the actual details of the incid...

Zahara lives on a deserted island off the coast of Malaysia with her ten-year-old niece Nika, eking out a living by gathering turtle eggs. Determined to enroll Nika in school, Zahara canoes to the mainland only to be met with indifference by a local bureaucrat. Returning to the island, she meets ...