After years of toiling in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Wu Ke-Xi, who also co-wrote the script based on her own personal experiences) finally gets her break as the female lead in a big-budget espionage thriller. The role, which calls for nudity and explicit sex scenes, is made all the more...

Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) is slowly dying. Having come to terms with his fate, he retreats to the coastal home of his childhood to await the end. His impending death sends quiet shockwaves through those around him – most profoundly affecting his estranged brother Luc (Eric Caravaca) – forcing bot...

Seventeen-year-old Prudence (Léa Seydoux) is alone and adrift until she meets Marilyne, a high school misfit who introduces her to the Rungis race circuit where souped-up mopeds and muscle bikes illegally race each other. Fascinated by Reynald, Franck and the other guys from the Rungis clique, Pr...

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...

Burmese immigrants sneak into Thailand on a well-trafficked route across the Mekong River, down quiet country roads and past bribed police checkpoints. Along this treacherous path to Bangkok, Lianqing (Wu Ke-Xi) and Guo (Kai Ko) meet, and their fates become entwined. After finding work, the coupl...

Barely able to survive on their meager corn harvest, Xing-hong (Wang Shin-Hong) and his father make their way down from the mountains, hoping to borrow money from relatives. Eventually, they pawn their cow for a moped so that Xing-hong can earn a living picking up taxi fares. His first customer i...

In Paris, Dominique (Isabelle Huppert), a successful fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin (Vincent Martinez), a bisexual bartender and hustler, who is fifteen years her junior. Their encounter quickly turns into a passionate affair. But as Dominique becomes increasi...

Robin is pregnant but does not want to be a mother. Katerina and Gaia are single and want a child. Kiki suffers from an incurable disease and wants to end her life with dignity. The procedures they hope to get access to – abortion, IVF and euthanasia – are all available and legal in neighboring c...

At the edge of the English Channel, on the Côte d’Opale, near a hamlet with marshland, there lives a solitary man who poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of the dunes and woods, mysteriously engagi...

A-Hong and San-mei, two migrants from Myanmar, live precarious lives moving between the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok and the remote border town of Dagudi. Desperate to raise enough money to rescue his younger sister from human traffickers, A-Hong turns to the drug trade. Meanwhile, San-mei wor...

Inside an empty apartment, a French film director (Joana Preiss) interviews Burmese refugees about their experiences encountering oppression and cruelty in their homeland and reads aloud poetry about the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic bomb. Featured as part of the Taipei Factory omnibus proje...

Legendary director Andrzej Wajda’s final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda) works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat h...

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...

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...

When the colorful Caravana Rolidei rolls into town, young accordionist Cico (Fábio Junior) leaves behind his mundane existence and joins the troupe along with his pregnant wife. Led by the mysterious Gypsy Lord (José Wilker) and featuring the seductive Salomé (Betty Faria), the Queen of the Rhumb...

Inside one of France's elite universities, where the political and economic leaders of tomorrow are groomed, a group of students become entangled in emotional and erotic power games. Paul (Grégori Baquet) grows attracted to his roommate Louis-Arnault (Jocelyn Quivrin), complicating the relationsh...

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 ...

Three close friends, Crista, Carloto and João – along with an entire film crew – become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment during COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal. They spend their time in a spacious farmhouse where the long, sun-soaked summer days include dancing, chores, disturbed sleep pa...

20-year-old Lynn (Yao Hong gui) is told she needs English classes, flight attendant school and a go-getter attitude. She perseveres along this path of upward mobility until she finds out she’s pregnant. Indecisive and running out of time, she tells her boyfriend she’s had an abortion and returns ...

Belgium, 1995. The shocking disappearance of two young girls leads to the formation of secret police operation Maldoror. Newly recruited officer Paul Chartier (Anthony Bajon) is tasked with monitoring a dangerous suspect but soon finds himself in a losing battle against bureaucracy and systemic d...

Justino, a 45-year-old Desana native, works in the industrial center of Manaus as a security guard at the cargo port. Since the death of his wife, his primary companion is his youngest daughter, Vanessa, who has just been accepted to study medicine in Brasilia. Feeling trapped in the city and mis...

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...