Poles Apart(2024)

Heart of Midnight(en)

A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. Carol decides to renovate the venue, but, in the process, uncovers dark secrets about the club and her dead relative. After a series of disturbing events, Carol becomes increasingly unstable, but she finds some measure of comfort in Sharpe, an enigmatic older detective.

Stage Mother(en)

A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

Plan 75(ja)

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection(st)

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.

Only You(en)

Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.

Memento Mori(en)

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Ladies Room(es)

Some incidents occur on the dancing floor, and the ladies' restroom at a tropical club will change the life of a macho politician, a naive and subdued married woman, an unfaithful lesbian couple, a transsexual dreaming of a sex reassignment surgery and a smart school teacher who loses her head after a few drinks.

Blue Thermal(ja)

Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies from the moment Kuramochi takes her under his wing and up for a flight in a glider.

Beach Club(en)

Three strung-out acid freaks ride a technicolor bullet train straight into the gaping mouth of the devil himself.

Empty View(fr)

Mamma Gógó(is)

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.

The Beast in the Jungle(fr)

The club as a place of endless (im)possibilities. A man and a woman wait here together for 25 years for a mysterious, all-changing event to occur. From 1979 to 2004: from disco to techno. A love story and an obsession.

Weekend(en)

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Slope(es)

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

The Rise(en)

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

DÉTECTIVE MANO - LE FILM(fr)

The Stud(en)

Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.

Allanamiento de morada(es)

Two salesmen arrive at an old woman's house to offer her a great deal.

Wastelands(es)

The eldest member of a rural community of grape growers refuses to sell his land to a greedy real estate company. When he seems cornered by the dirty tactics of a corrupt businessman, he must decide whether to give up everything he owns, or take control of the situation.

Miss Moonlight(ja)

High school film club member Maki shot a local tourism promotional video with her friends, but she wasn't happy with the mediocre outcome. One day, Maki comes up with a new idea and decides to reshoot the video at camp during spring vacation. The camp starts off with help from Misako, who works as an idol, and former video director Hirokazu.