An unexpected encounter, an uncertain ending...
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The people behind it
Marta Belmonte
Ana
Marcos Obregón
Javier
Emilia Curiel
Mother
Seung-Jin and Ji-Seon are high school students who sneak out at night and play. They are friends but what they want is different. Seung-Jin is ashamed of having a father who is too old and Ji-Seon is bored with her daily routine and her family. Seung-Jin wants to be a photographer, so she carries around a camera and one day…
Since losing her goggles in swimming class as a child, Ji-young has been afraid of water. Even now as an adult, Ji-young, who cannot open her eyes underwater, is anxious about her final swimming test and future career. She finds out that Soo-kyung, a precocious high school student who she tutored, has goggles and tries to borrow them, but Soo-kyung is not home on the day she promised to lend them. Soo-kyung, who ran away from home, dreams of an emergency on the rooftop in the rain that night, and Ji-young is still wandering in the water in her dream, unable to open her eyes.
A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. However, his only audience is a deaf and dumb cyborg girl, who is raised by data and has no actual experience with real humans. Can they identify each other’s feeling by the signals of music? As AI rises, how can the last generation of Homo sapiens and posthuman face their fate of desolation?
Fabio and Leticia live a marriage crisis. He suspects that she cheats on him, and starts to chase her into a journey through the city night.
A disturbed young man pushes away his exurban family to seek wildness in the woods. The boy's urge for the primitive manifests in his bedroom at home and in a wild dog he follows through the countryside.
A young man stands at a crossroads and receives advice from a thoughtful new friend.
This meta student film illustrates the trials and tribulations of being a film student.
A solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.
Chris is experiencing depression, anxiety and self-doubt about his life. His family has abandoned him and he goes to The Sea to make a decision where encounters Colin. Although they first don't get along, Colin changes Chris's life and helps him decide how to proceed and gives him a new perspective.
Ezekiel, a ten-year-old boy with an extraordinary hearing capability, goes every day to the forest looking for nests to steal eggs. One day, amidst the sounds of the forest, he hears the painful whining of his greyhound Maria, who is struggling between life and death.
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
A drug-addicted alcoholic shaves his head, yells at his housemate, gets fired, and ODs. It's a comedy.
A chance encounter between strangers, a foreigner and a local, results in the possibility of an unlikely friendship.
A mother takes her three children on a road trip but finds that home cannot easily be left behind.
Since the age of five, Ronny has been eating worms, a strange habit yet surprisingly healthy. Now, as he begins his freshman year of high school, Ronny faces a dilemma: continue his unusual diet or seek social acceptance. Embarking on a journey to find his place, Ronny must decide if there are people who will accept him for his 'disgusting' eating habits, or if he must change who he is to fit in.
A young artist, Sofia - a photographer, wanders the streets at night with her camera. She's led by a mysterious graffiti artist through his written poetry on street walls and embarks upon a spiritual quest.
After witnessing his wife's illicit affair, a humiliated businessman flees deep into the countryside where he encounters a reclusive war veteran. Together, they strike a maniacal pact to take revenge on the man who cucked him.
Henry lies at the side of the road, bleeding out from a gunshot wound. A young mother with a bizarre sense of appropriate uses his final moments as a teachable lesson for her 6 year old son.
In the video art work "MERAHEFET" describes the world of a ghost, from her point of view floating over places that become a spring, a path that suggests a deep longing that is only revealed when the ghost stops for a moment to look out the window. This moment when she manages to take control of it, is flooded with flashes of mirrors that reveal to the viewer and the spirit what motivates her to continue her journey.
Francis is a short story written by american novelist Dave Eggers. This is the story of a young boy growing up in the suburbs of chicago. He spent his vacations in Quetico Provincial Park, up on the border of Minnesota and Canada. But he won't be going back any day soon, not after what happened to a girl called Francis Brandywine.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes when the US army supresses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of either sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.
At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child exploitation in one of Argentina's busiest train stations. He tries to rescue her from this cruel life with no future. But to do so, he must confront the ruthless adult gang leaders, as well as the young kids who protect them, believing that this Mafia is truly their only option.
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
