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...

In a remote Alpine town isolated from the outside world, young love is put to the test. Anna comes from the village and has a daughter from an earlier relationship, while Marco is an outsider from the flatlands hired by the mountain farmers to work the rugged land. Together they experience the jo...

Yugoslavia, late 1980s, or so it seems. A family welcomes their beloved uncle who has returned home from Germany. The reunited family enjoys their Christmas meal until a smartphone starts ringing. The illusion is shattered. It is not the 80s, and it is not Christmas either. Suddenly it's not just...

After her boyfriend experiences a psychotic episode and disappears, Maria (Zygimante Jakstaite) decides to let nothing stop her from helping him. Chasing every clue about his whereabouts, she embarks on a fast-paced odyssey through the city. Always one step behind and against all odds, she fights...

After arriving at an Italian villa, vacationing couple Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) discover that the swimming pool is empty. Ignorant to the fact that the island is facing a water shortage, they call for it to be repaired. But when the migrant worker sent to fix the prob...

Amidst the chaos surrounding the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Banu has four days to mount a defense against her influential soon-to-be ex-husband, Javid. He wants to get full custody of their son and is claiming that Banu is an unfit mother who suffers from psychiatric issues. With no time to spa...

Time seems to stand still in a village in the Galician coast. Everybody there is paralyzed although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women show up - they are trying to find Rubio, a sailor who has recently disappeared at sea.​

The evoca...

Investigative filmmaker Yuko (Kumi Takiuchi) is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirlʼs suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yukoʼs uncompromising nature brings her in conflict with the conservative-minded management at her television ...