Notes to Dad(2025)

Five Steps to Accept Farewell(ko)

YeJoo and EunMin spent two years as a couple so far. One day, YeJoo wants to finish the relationship that she had with EunMin. EunMin gets angry and asks if there's another girl. Yejoo says she got a boyfriend.

The Way Things Go(en)

A lifetime of loneliness ends when Elise meets a kindred spirit, finally finding understanding and friendship in an unexpected encounter.

The cost of time(es)

A boy looks for money to replace a watch that his father lost on a work trip. Searching the corners of the house, the truths of his parents will be dusted off.

Soursweet(en)

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

Burning Blue(id)

Gita, a distraught teenager forced to be a badminton player by her authoritarian father, finds a way out through a strange request she proposed to her boyfriend.

Black Mist(es)

Black drops fall from the water faucets, peek through the drains, and flood the city. Sisters Paula and Teresa, cornered in their apartment, can do nothing but observe as that strange substance takes hold of their lives. Hypnotized, with nowhere to go, they come into contact with the liquid. Gradually, reality begins to distort and they get lost in it.

The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner(bg)

The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.

Have You Eaten?(en)

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmmaker Lina Li and her mother engage in an intimate conversation about immigration to Canada, misunderstandings, barriers to communicating, love and the taste of home.

Time Stops at This Moment(zh)

Gao Ming Ze, a student who lacked family care ever since a very young age, so his personality ends up transferring schools because gets into fights. Until, he meets Zhou Xiao Tong, who's a rightful and innocent student. Will he change?

Vengo Volviendo(es)

Vengo Volviendo tells the story of Ismael, who was raised by his grandmother and seeks to leave Ecuador in order to migrate to the United States. Along the way, he encounters a host of interesting people and learns of some interesting tales.

Sofia Was(pt)

Sofia was forced to leave her home and is now homeless. The young woman spends her days wandering the alleys of the University of São Paulo campus, where she offers her services as a tattoo artist. One ethereal night, her wanderings mingle with memories of an unfulfilled love. Wrapped in a dark, melancholy atmosphere, the film contemplates the fragility of a youth left behind. In a story that transcends borders, the life of an impenetrable fictional Sofia is imbued with the experiences of the actress of the same name who plays her. As enigmatic as an oracle, the original Portuguese title evokes the impermanence and ambiguity that haunt Sofia. She is carried away by perpetual motion, her future forever unknown.

Lee's Adventures(zh)

A video game nerd must beat through the game in order to time travel and meet his ex-girlfriend once more before they were apart.

Yam and Egg(en)

On the anniversary of his sister's death during a protest against a corrupt police unit in Nigeria, an immigrant now living in London, battles survivor's guilt.

Francisco Perdido(pt)

Kupu-Kupu Kertas(id)

Set in 1965, a young couple fights to stay together as escalating violence and their opposing political backgrounds threaten to tear them apart.

Midsummer(da)

It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is just around the corner and after the freedom and future. But behind the idyllic facade lurks tragedy and secrets. That evening Sophie commits suicide.

Dinosaur(en)

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Joyeux Noel(fr)

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Swimming in the Dark(zh)

When the swimming competition is coming, Wen is under lots of pressure, so it's gloomy this summer. Ann, who is inseparable beside her, found out something different. To confront Wen’s closure and trauma, Ann decides to be closer to Wen. But, when she gets closer to Wen once, it pushes them further.

Dear, Matilda(pt)

This short film is an in-depth exploration of a young adult's personal relationship with his inner child, transcending the limitations of verbal dialogue to communicate through powerful visual elements. The narrative develops like cinematographic poetry, revealing the complexity of emotional experiences that often remained to verbal expression. Through these visual sequences we are taken on an introspective journey that explores the recesses of the creative mind and the complexities of emotional experiences that often remain inarticulate.