Katia Reiter directs the Guadeloupe Volcano Observatory. A passionate volcanologist, she’s waved goodbye to the idea of one day fulfilling her professional dream of managing a major eruption. But she hadn’t appreciated the unpredictable nature of the Soufrière... or of young volcanologist Aimé Lubin.
Two teenagers from the neighborhood, victim and executioner, bullied and harassed, have grown up being irreconcilable enemies. One day, one of them has the opportunity to take revenge and decides to carry out his plan without imagining the consequences that this will have on the lives of both.
Ronnie Monroy has had an unmeaningful life as a public employee. About to turn 65 and face retirement he discovers the Women’s Prison, where he finds a new purpose.
In the midst of a climate of political repression, Ernesto is a student who believes that the "revolution" will only begin if there is a martyr for the cause; Isaac, his best friend and his student leader, seems like the ideal candidate.
When Marie’s boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby names, exboyfriends climb down trees and a woman in a sari narrates her life in poems. Her would-be fiancé eventually joins her, clashing his own luggage of thoughts with hers. But what if you show your thoughts to each other? How much honesty can a relationship take? In her first feature, director Zora Rux, an apprentice of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, tells a surrealistic story of the search for one’s true self in poetic tableaus.
Luis is the owner of a little grocery store that suffers a sudden downturn when a supermarket sets up in its neighborhood and he is told that he’ll no longer be provided with bread. The man faces a crossroads: closing the store, or finding another bread supplier to keep his business open.
Natalia supports Norma, her suicidal mother, by sharing the list she made in her childhood of the things worth living for. As they complete the items on the list, Natalia spends time with her mother and learns to understand her.
A young couple from the US, struggling with their marriage, decides to move to Mexico. As liberal artists, they seek inspiration and freedom in a new country ready to be discovered. But the reality is far from what they are imagining.
‘Poorna’, an eleven-year-old boy, runs away from his village and comes to a rapidly growing cosmopolitan determined to locate alcohol joints that sell alcohol made from a particular fruit (Mahua), he begins wandering the streets of the city. His quest is punctuated as the committee for the care and aid of children take him in custody and admit him in an observation home Poorna reveals that he needs to find a place called ‘Deid gully’ (Lane one and Half) where, one of his fathers friends, sells the Mahua alcohol. A resolute Poorna runs away from the observation home to continue his search. This film is Poorna’s journey to seek answers, A journey that raises several questions.
In order to avoid being “canceled”, an association called “House of Womxn” must immediately change the panel that will be participating in an international women’s conference in order to satisfy a diversity checklist. As a result, the very diverse panelists clash in the empty clubhouse, revealing some painful differences at first, but then some affirming commonalities as well.
Santi is a teenage father who lives in a small coastal town. During the day he has a job as a fisherman, while at night he smuggles seafood. While his girlfriend Lucia takes care of their baby all by herself, Santi, absent and overwhelmed by responsibility, seeks refuge and redemption in the sea.
Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.
The viewer is immersed in this world with the main character Lea, who has a broken leg. It is hard for her to deal with it, because as she wants to get help, she comes up against many prejudices and barriers.
A group of people on their way to a protest are kidnapped. We follow them in their journey through the darkness, not knowing whether they'll see light again.
In the mid-18th century, the Beast is hunted around the Château de Saint-Alban. In the mid-20th century, a new kind of psychiatry is invented there. Theatre and madness span the centuries.
It’s Valentine’s Day at Finja‘s school, and this year, the fifteen-year old is responsible for delivering roses and letters to the other students. Everything goes to plan until, at the last minute, her little brother Malte hands her one final letter – to a male classmate.
Roshan Raahein is a story of a girl who inspires a community to realize their strength – a proof of when everyone works together; they overcome the darkness with their light.