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...

Above the clouds the Gods of heaven bet on human sorrows and joys in a celestial casino for their amusement. They select a newborn boy, Wang Sangui, and curse him with a strange affliction - everyone he kisses falls into a deep slumber. Only true love can break the spell. As he grows into adultho...

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 ...

In the mid-19th century, Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, Genbei, a former samurai, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect t...

Semret (Lula Mebrahtu) is an Eritrean single mother who works at a local Zurich hospital and is studying to become a midwife. She does everything she can to ensure her child has a better life than the one she left behind in Africa. But when her now teenage daughter Joe begins to ask questions abo...

Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who not only was a director of Italian B-movies but also penned the screenplay for the Sergio Corbucci spaghetti-western Django (which famously provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's own Django Unchained). An u...

Mikami (Koji Yakusho), a middle-aged yakuza, gets released from prison after serving a 13-year murder sentence. Hoping to find his long lost mother, who abandoned him as a child, he agrees to be the subject of a television documentary. But his impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause...

Andrés Bravo (Jesus Nunes), the frontman of the fledgling alternative rock band Los Pijamistas, looks to start a solo career, seeking inspiration with the help of “The Beasts,” two mysterious masked beings. Combining hazy pop dreams and crisp indie realism, this fantasy-tinged musical drama mirro...

Ukraine, 1996. Five months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends – a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist – investigate the murder of a colleague whose widow both of them loved when they were young. Immersed in memories of the past, they unconsciously create a future...

Thirteen-year-old Iranian Ramin Mehdipour (Aran-Sina Keshvari) and his family have been living in a refugee center in Finland. While enjoying a perfect summer, his parents receive the terrible news that their asylum application has been denied. The Mehdipours file an appeal and try to carry on wi...

Still living off his mother, Kamil (Jacek Beler), a 32-year-old wannabe-rapper from Warsaw, dreams of recording his first hip-hop album, but even his social media-addicted girlfriend Anecia (Magdalena Kolesnik) has no faith in his prospects. Instead of getting his life together, Kamil gets high, ...

On a holiday excursion to the mountains, an estranged father and son get to know each other better. Far away from civilization and sheltered by the rocky landscape, Michael (Peter Hottinger) believes that he and his son, Benny (Dorian Heiniger), are safe from the outside world, which is crumbling...

Nora is not sure how she is going to survive another summer in her family's coastal mansion in Spain. Her grandmother is ill, and her little sister is such a baby. Hopefully, Libertad will show up. She’s from Colombia and knows how to handle boys. But she's also the maid's daughter, and their fri...

For Ramona (María Vazquez), life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. Always sacrificing everything for her daughter’s future, she will be pushed to look inwards and to think that, maybe, there is something new to live for.

“Anxiety drips from every frame straight onto your lap. A...