LIMBO(2022)

Prison of Denial(en)

After a young person gets fed up with her repetitive life, she attempts to avoid all responsiblity as she does whatever she wants, but financial problems and other realities of life cause her to doubt her own philosophies

Holy Motors(fr)

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

The Flight Before Christmas(en)

Two strangers who both happen to be in marketing, share a room at a bed-and-breakfast when a snowstorm strands their flight in Montana on Christmas Eve.

Rejected(es)

After the fall of civilization, man has repeated the same mistakes again and installed a new system of law based on false science and superstitious beliefs. This reaches its climax when it comes to the “Chisa” flower, because anyone who dares to touch it is banished from the village and has to live a life of loneliness and poverty. The most vulnerable to this deviation are children, as their natural curiosity makes them fall prey to temptation.

Der Liebesbaum(de)

Supine(en)

Sylvie is a taxidermist content with being isolated from people in her house. That is until Oz, an American hitchhiker stumbles upon her path.

Sociedade do Caos(pt)

The Marriage Playground(en)

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.

Amsterdam(fr)

After Lucia(es)

Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.

Pecera(es)

Lola, an employment agency branch director receives a strange call in the late of the night. It is his boss. Unfair dismissals are quickly increasing in her sector. This means huge expenditures increase for the company. The situation must be stopped or her branch will have to be closed.

Cool Young(zh)

"Cool Young" tells the story of the emotional life of employees in a grey area of Chinese society.

No Exit(en)

The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

No Exit(fr)

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

Deserts(ar)

Longtime friends, Mehdi and Hamid, work for a collection agency. They crisscross the villages of southern Morocco in their old car and share double rooms in shabby hotels. They are exactly the same size, and wear the same suits and ties, as well as the same shoes. Paid nearly nothing, they try to play hard to make good figures. One day, in a gas station planted in the middle of the desert, a motorcycle parks in front of them. A man is handcuffed to the luggage rack, threatening. It’s the Evader. Their meeting marks the beginning of an unforeseen and mystical journey.

The Tragedy of Man(hu)

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

Psyche(en)

Trapped in limbo during a near-death experience, Mara and a computer form an alliance to figure out the meaning of life. Together, they navigate through a dystopian world deciphering cryptic clues laid out before them. Mara embarks on a profound quest of self-discovery and redemption. Confronting her deepest fears by facing the trauma in her life, her journey becomes a poignant exploration of human vulnerability. "Psyche" explores the philosophical interplay between mental health and artificial intelligence.

Point Final .(fr)

Eden Hotel(it)

After death, life could be still bad. What would you be willing to do to reach paradise?

The Option(pt)

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.