In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only jus...

When Kaho (Aoba Kawai) and Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto) announce their engagement at a celebratory dinner with friends, they are unprepared for the emotional turmoil that is unleashed once a prior infidelity comes to light. Later that evening, Tomoya is invited to the apartment of his former classmate,...

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 ...

Adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by Tomiko Miyao, ONIMASA recounts the sophisticated tale of an uber-fierce yakuza boss (played with savage intensity by Tatsuya Nakadai) as seen through the eyes of his resilient adopted daughter. Kidnapping, prostitution and revenge are all meticulously...

Sold into a Yoshiwara red-light district brothel by her destitute father, demure ingenue Hisano (Yuko Natori) soon learns the ways of her new world from the establishment’s top three courtesans. Her coming of age is a trial by fire as she rises up the ranks, while juggling lovers and her own pers...

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...

Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD plunges into the heady 1970s and 1980s LA porn scene – the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingp...

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 ...

Formerly known as The Hermit Kingdom for its desire to remain isolated, North Korea is the last communist country and the largest source of instability in regard to world peace. It also has the most militarized border of any nation, and the flow of impartial information – both in and out – is pra...

An old man works alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, season after season. As his strength fades, his children must confront the harsh realities of inheritance. His daughter understands farming but struggles with commitment. His son only views the land as a financial asset. While they bicker...

Aboriginal people live on the threshold of two worlds – one of everyday reality, and the other of spirits and demons. Director Warwick Thornton assembles a collection of Indigenous ghost tales from across Australia and brings them to life with some of the nation's most iconic actors as the storyt...

Jane (Iina Kuustonen) works at a travel agency, selling adventures to others while stuck in her own safe and predictable everyday life. Her boyfriend, Mikki (Riku Nieminen), is a struggling actor, and even though the passion between them has cooled, she is shocked when he suggests that they open ...

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...

Uno finds distressed teenager Zion in a Manila bus terminal, and they bond in their brief encounter. Two years later, they meet once again as hustlers booked by the same client. The night, however, turns sour when they find Uno’s friend, Miguelito, overdosed. Together, they journey through the da...

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...

In 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier,...

Stella Goldschlag (Paula Beer), a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. Despite all the repressive measures of the time, she still dreams of a career as a jazz singer. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life begins to tu...

Aging punk diva Vera V. (Geraldine Chaplin) arrives in Santo Domingo to direct a musical as a cinematic tribute to her mentor, the late filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge. Welcoming her are two old friends, the producer Victor (Jaime Pina) and cinematographer Martin (Luis Ospina), with whom Vera spent th...

Five-year-old Vitka and her teenage cousin Larysa both yearn for a life beyond the archaic rules and restricting confines of their small, godforsaken Ukrainian village. Despite her family's staunch objections, Larysa falls wildly in love with Scar, a handsome ex-convict. Hoping to leave their tro...

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to any other family. While the situation is perfectly fine with Sara, not everyone sees it the same way. Her father, in particular, ha...