Connects seven stories of children facing different forms of violence, exploring how unresolved childhood trauma can lead to struggles in adulthood, perpetuating a cycle of hurt and harmful behavior.
Social & External
The people behind it
Maryam Boubani
Grandma
Aysan Hadad
Violet Episode
Saleh Alavizadeh
Zahra Aghapour
Red Episode
Mehdi Azarakhsh
Orange Episode
Arghavan Shabani
Green Episode
Maryam Heydari
Bahador Bastanhagh
Indigo Episode
Parisa Khajehdehi
Armin Sayyad
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Rain and Asher meet as college freshmen—awkward, curious, and quietly drawn to each other in ways neither of them is ready to admit. Their connection grows through late-night study sessions, shared cigarettes behind campus buildings, and the silent electricity of almost-confessions. In a society unkind to tenderness between two men, their relationship exists in fragments: glances across lecture halls, hands almost touching, laughter louder than their fear. The “bubblegum” becomes the emotional core of their shared history—something once sweet and intoxicating, held in the mouth long after the flavor faded. It represents forbidden love: chewed slowly, hidden under the tongue, never swallowed, and eventually spit out not because it stopped mattering, but because the world demanded it. Their reunion forces the question they spent years avoiding: Was it love, or just a moment? And if it was love… why weren’t they allowed to keep it?
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.
Three love stories. The same country that condemns them. A queer Guatemalan anthology that explores love between men in a society without LGBTQ+ rights. FIRST: Two teenagers discover their attraction at a party, experiencing that first kiss that changes everything. TRUE: A bitter comedy about an ex who discovers her new boyfriend's secret at his wedding. LAST: Heartbreaking drama about a seven-year, closeted relationship that collapses.
An investigation into the original 1993 Michael Jackson allegations brought by the Chandler family.
Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.
Luca, a careless high school student on the verge of failing, drifts through life in the outskirts of the neighborhood with indifference and apathy. As his last chance for redemption, he must take part in a theater course. The challenge lies in avoiding the mistakes of his past, while discovering what it truly means to grow and take responsibility.
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
A woman struggles with the isolation of being confined as a prisoner in a war-torn country.
A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.
A group of teenagers, three cleaning staff, and a young married couple confront a social contract when they meet in the elevator queue of a middle-class apartment building.
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
A filmmaker struggling with her mental health reaches a breaking point and kidnaps a famous social media influencer in an attempt to coerce them into playing the lead in her latest project.
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
In the summer between high school and college, a group of kids try to gain control of their relationships, emotions and lives for the first time.
The relationship between Claudia and Paula is interfered by the effects of social media.
Based on true stories surrounding the building of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline; a woman, whose father dies, is left a trust fund tied to a mysterious name, unraveling a history of family, affairs, and life in Alaska.
Miles is a busy television director and loving father with a controlling nature motivated by good intentions, who discovers his 17-year-old daughter Zoe has been using hard drugs. When Miles sends Zoe to a rehab facility in Utah, he learns he must also attend a four-day workshop, or else his daughter will not be able to stay. In Utah, Miles joins a group led by Gillian, a no-nonsense leader who dishes out authoritative wisdom with a quirky passion born from her personal experiences. Through her insightful and unconventional techniques, Miles learns that he also needs to examine his behavior and change.
Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.