Saigon, 1990s. San, a transgender sex worker, longs for the gender-affirming surgery that will allow her to live as her true self. Determined to help her realize that dream, her lover Nam risks everything by entering the underground world of dog-cage fighting. But as their hopes become entangled ...

After being sent to the Indonesian island of Sumba to deliver aid to communities devastated by Cyclone Seroja, young nun Yohanna (Laura Basuki) borrows a van to transport supplies, only to have it stolen. Determined to recover the vehicle, she joins forces with Alice (Kirana Grasela), a streetwis...

An unexpected kiss awakens buried memories for Shu-yi (Ariel Lin), a mother struggling to hold her family together despite her own unhappiness. As her rebellious son Han (Jimmy Liu) becomes captivated by the enigmatic Xue-jin (Wu Ke-xi), Shu-yi rekindles her own connection with the same woman, dr...

In 1994 post-martial law Taiwan, college student Chi-wei (Ling-Wei Lee) begins to question the culture of conformity surrounding her. Drawn into a student movement resisting the repression of creative freedom, she becomes entangled with Ching (Hsiao-Fei Yeh) and her boyfriend Kuang (Roy Chang), t...

Elaha (Bayan Layla) is a young Kurdish-German woman torn between the unconditional love for her family and her own aspirations in life. Although she cares most about having a good time with her girlfriends and taking care of her younger brother, she has to fight patriarchy while being the perfect...

Jesús Lopez (Lucas Schell), a young racing driver, dies in an accident, leaving his village in mourning. His cousin Abel (Joaquin Spahn), a drifting teenager, gradually feels tempted to take his place. He moves in with Jesus’ parents, wears his clothes, and becomes close with his friends and ex-g...

Summer vacation. Two teenage sisters, Marina and Luna, travel from Costa Rica to Panama to look for their absent father. While dealing with frictions that arise between them, they find space to explore their desires, new friendships, lovers, and skateboarding, on a journey toward emancipation whe...

Clumsy Standa and recent widower Bronya are volunteer firefighters in a small Czech village. Their quiet and peaceful lives are turned upside down when a van crashes into a crowd of people during the Easter Fair, and the driver flees the scene of the crime. Convinced that this must have been an a...

In the Mongolian desert, young nomadic couple Davaa and Zaya live with their four children, bound to the rhythms of the land. When a sudden, devastating sandstorm wipes out half their herd, they are forced to abandon their home and move to the outskirts of the city. But as they struggle to adapt ...

After transferring from a downtown Kyiv high school, Tonia (Alina Cheban) joins a gang while searching for a place where she truly belongs. Initially attracted to Zhurik, she also finds herself drawn to Sania and eventually becomes entangled in a secret love triangle. But as her abusive past resu...

Vid is seen by his son Dule as the greatest hero in the world, even as he struggles under the looming threat of an iron ore mine that could destroy their home and way of life. While Vid wrestles with the danger closing in, Dule escapes into imagination, embarking on a quiet mission to restore his...

After her baseball-loving husband passes away, Natsuko (Mitsuki Moriyama) finds out that he owed money to his amateur team, the Tamagawa Mets. Shigeno (Takehiko Fujita), the manager of the Mets, recognizes Natsuko's raw pitching talent and makes her a deal to forgive the debt if she joins the tea...

Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the forgotten world of Armenian cinema, reflecting on her late father's acting career and her own creative path. Blending personal memories with a celebration of profound cultural and artistic legacy, the film was selected as Arme...

After decades of military rule, Burma holds its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that peace and prosperity will soon follow, including Wang Xing-Hong, who is living as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan and saves his money so he can return home. When Xing-Hong arrives, ...

Han is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is a violent simpleton with an IQ of 80, and Maria is a single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Han has tried numerous times to kill himself, but nothing ever works. When he witnesses his wife's infidelity, it's the last straw. He gets a call from Mun and t...

Days after giving birth to a stillborn baby, Robin (Frieda Barnhard) starts to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she looks to donate it instead. But as the challenge to find someone who will accept her milk becomes increasingly difficult, the growing number of bottles start to overtake her f...

In 1950s Sicily, Ignazio (Turi Ferro), a recently widowed father of three, hires the beautiful young Angela (Laura Antonelli) to maintain the household and look after his sons. But as Angela settles into her duties, all of the men grow increasingly infatuated and obsessed with her, each attemptin...

It’s winter break in Buenos Aires, and fourteen-year-old Ana makes an odd discovery. The metal plate that she has had in her arm since suffering an accident as a child is all of a sudden acting as an antenna and receiving strange Morse code messages. She teams up with a young soldier to decipher ...

Nearly forty years old, Julio Cesar (Edoardo Pesce) still lives with his mother (Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero) in a house by the river in the seaside town of Fiumicino, near Rome. Through salsa dance nights and limited earnings working for a local drug dealer, the two struggle to maintain ...

Just released from prison and determined to make a name for himself once again, Nasser (Reda Kateb) returns to the streets of Paris. His probation officer, Margot (Mélanie Laurent), urges him to work at Le Prestige, the bar run by his older brother, Arezki (Slimane Dazi), that is located next to ...

There is nothing ordinary about Petar, an unconventional man living a humble existence in rural eastern Bulgaria. His days are filled with sun, work, land, sheep and birds. Throughout the various chapters of his life – from ages eight and eighteen to eighty-two – he follows his own poetic path wh...

In Seoul, three broke and lonely seniors form an unlikely bond and reinvent themselves as the infamous “dine-and-dash trio,” slipping into restaurants for expensive meals and then vanishing before the bill arrives. As their quest for free meat turns them into local celebrities, the friends discov...

Fereshteh, a university student and single mother living in Tehran, finds her courage tested when she resorts to desperate measures to hide her illegitimate child from her parents who arrive for an unannounced visit. Her friend Atefeh vows to helps her. Together, they embark on an odyssey through...

For Giacinto (Adriano Tardiolo), prison was always home. As the son of two inmates, he was born behind bars, and there he learned how to walk and discovered his skill for running. Despite not having a criminal record of his own, Giacinto does everything he can to go back to jail as an adult, and ...