Light In Darkness(2025)

The Son of a Thousand Men(pt)

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets.

Hands of Stone(en)

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

The Road Dance(en)

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.

Vitalina Varela(pt)

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(en)

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

Reading Lolita in Tehran(en)

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

Come Sunday(en)

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Return(en)

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

The Padre(en)

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.

The Girl in the Book(en)

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Tigertail(en)

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

The Young One(en)

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

The Movie of My Life(pt)

The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.

Rogue Agent(en)

Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

Sergio(en)

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

Light of My Life(en)

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

Imagine(en)

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Aníkúlápó(en)

After an affair with a queen leads to his demise, an eager traveler encounters a mystical bird with the power to give him another life.

Bastard Out of Carolina(en)

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

The Visit(en)

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

The Luminous Life(pt)

It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.

We Are Two Abysses(pt)

Living alone in the highest mountains of Portugal, Carlos has spent years writing letters to his beloved late wife, suspended in a time that no longer exists. His solitary world is disrupted when a filmmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious lake, stumbles upon him. What begins as a chance encounter soon evolves into a deep, yet fleeting friendship. To her, Carlos slowly reveals the depth of his grief, his memories, and his inner abyss. In their shared moments, the boundaries between their lives blur, offering both a glimpse of healing amidst the shadows of longing.

Life on Loan(ru)

Denis Komarov, who was raised in an orphanage and never knew his real parents, accidentally met the Adamov family. These people treated him kindly and began to invite him to visit them. Communication was a great pleasure for everyone.

Plunder(fa)

Zeinal Bandari is an opium dealer with a past criminal record. He is nabbed in a series of arrests on drug traffickers by Iranian DEA. He then In court is convicted of...

Dada(fa)

The cruel landlord is forcing the people to give him every girl of the village who wants to get marry. But a guy Dada is resisting. He gives the landlord a piece of land so he not to ...

I Want To Be Alive(fa)

Aslan divorces his wife Mah Monir and marries Farangis. Barbod, Aslan's 11-year-old boy from Mah Monir, is very lonely. One day, Farangis calls Aslan with a scream. Aslan encounters the bloody body of his son at bathroom.

The Walnut Harvest(fa)

A young clergy choose to isolate himself near a holy shrine for studying. But when finds about a rotten person who is in charge there he begins to disagree with him which cause more troubles for him.

Nylon Moon(sk)

The sweet story of the Bratislava architect Andrej and the beautiful Vanda, with whom Andrej, who has been cynical about women, falls in love for the first time.

The Life of Kagawa Toyohiko: I Die Daily(ja)

Toyohiko Kagawa was a great religious leader, thinker, novelist, scientist, social activist, and the founding father of agricultural cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, and medical cooperatives. His life was filled with indescribable turmoil, befitting a world-renowned figure born in Japan. This work depicts his extraordinary life.

Kids(es)

A Foggy Tale(zh)

Yue's brother was executed by the government. Determined to bring his body back home, Yue goes to Taipei alone and finds help in Chao Kung-tao, a discharged soldier. Two people with no relations become friends in need, embarking on a journey that could cost them their lives.

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face(ja)

A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate number three days ago at Shin-Arakawa Ohashi Bridge...

ÉVORA(pt)

"ÉVORA" follows the story of António Évora, an actor retired due to a health condition. The longing and permanent absence from the stage brings with it a reflection on the times when he was young, the joy of applause and what is to come.

The Attendant(en)

Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up!"

Teri Meri Love Story(ur)

Teri Meri Love Story is a romantic comedy revolving around a love triangle between Esha, Ramis and Nael.

Unbridled(en)

Sarah, an abused 16-year-old girl, is sent to a ranch for abuse survivors, and she meets Dreamer, a horse which has also suffered abuse. Together, Sarah and Dreamer overcome terrifying obstacles to find redemption.

Jason(fr)

12 year old Jason lives alone with his mother Marie. When he tells her that he has been accepted into a sports education program, the boy does not expect his life to change forever.

Seishun Gunjyoiro no Natsu(ja)

The Moulin Rouge(fr)

Paul and Stefan are two 14 year old friends. Little interested in school, they hang out together in the Paris of the 80s and fantasize about adult life. They have an idea in mind: break into the Moulin Rouge. So before Stefan moves out, Paul struggles to find a way to enter this mythical and inaccessible place.

An Investigation(ar)

As a mentally unstable man goes to the house of a female official of ill repute, she asks him to hide, after which she gets murdered. The investigators continue to look for the murderer, and many become suspects during the course of the investigation.