MER(2023)

Krakatau(pl)

An portrait of madness and inner turmoil, conveyed through mesmeric images of dreamlike intensity.

Jorge(en)

A lovelorn man is entranced by a beautiful girl who takes a ladybug from his neck.

Magic Conch Shell(en)

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

Colby(en)

22-year-old Colby is rebelling against feeling stifled by everybody because she's pregnant, but an encounter with a young man at a diner allows her momentary reprieve to be herself.

The Children's Hour(en)

An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.

xo, Marisol(en)

Luna discovers herself through an old diary under the radar of her traditional mother.

The Happiness Salesman(en)

Karen is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman. Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He claims that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill her long forgotten dreams and ambitions.

Let Me Kiss You(th)

Guide and Good are at a club when Guide starts reminiscing about an ex. He then finds himself bumping into a stranger and has a strong urge to kiss him.

Belfast(en)

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

Peach Girl(ja)

While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate, Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away? It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in.

Swell(en)

Swell is a smartphone app that changes your mood through sound. When a young couple tries to control each other’s settings, they find their relationship threatened by an unintended cacophony of emotions.

Fables of Forgotten Things(en)

A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.

24h01(fr)

Raspberry(en)

Undertakers wait on a family's final farewells, as one son struggles to say goodbye to his dead father.

Like the Ones I Used to Know(fr)

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, and Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about setting foot in his former in-laws’ house to pick up his children.

Danny Boy(xx)

A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

The Song of the Shirt(en)

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Hassan and Nayima(ar)

Hajj Metwally is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naima falls in love with Hassan Al-Maghnawati and he reciprocates her feelings. The two lovers meet repeatedly. Atwa, a relative of Metwally, aspires to marry her. Therefore, when Hassan proposes to her, her father rejects him. Naima runs away with Hassan to get married. Metwally and Hajj Abdel-Khaleq go to the town of Hassan, in order to retrieve Naima, harbors evil against his daughter and locks her in the house, and Hassan tries to retrieve her.

The Thug(ar)

Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.

ANA C.(pt)

ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself.