Soft(2020)

Pariah(en)

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

My Brother the Devil(en)

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.

Stutterer(en)

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.

The Little Prince(ss)(en)

When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

August(en)

August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent rendezvous turns into an attempt to revive passions past. Only this time it's not that simple as Jonathan has a new beau, Raul, and is trying to make the right decision a second time around.

The Swan(en)

Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.

What Maisie Knew(en)

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Tome of the Unknown(en)

Wirt and Gregory are brothers who get tired of walking, so, they borrow a car from a romantic songster made of vegetables.

The Boys in the Band(en)

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

Palm Trees and Power Lines(en)

A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.

From Straight A's to XXX(en)

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.

Scorpio Rising(en)

A gang of bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.

Tea and Sympathy(en)

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

Starcrossed(en)

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.

Anuja(en)

When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.

Embattled(en)

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.

The Short History of the Long Road(en)

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

DC Showcase: Death(en)

Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.

Mammal(en)

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.

Far from the Tree(en)

On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.

Close(en)

When 30-somethings Sam and Jamie lock themselves out in the communal stairwell they're forced to consider that maybe they aren't as close as they thought.

Runaway Baby(en)

Theresa is a young and talented writer who is struggling to finish her novel. As an attempt to find inspiration and understand her protagonist - a wild and free runaway named Chloé - better, she leaves busy and noisy Paris and heads on a journey to wherever the road will take her.

Skiff(nl)

Fifteen-year-old Malou is struggling with herself; while her mother is mostly absent and her rowing teammates bully her, the one person she can rely on is her brother Max. When Malou develops feelings for Max’s girlfriend Nouria, her life is dragged in an unstoppable current. Malou has to face her true self, may it be at the expense of her brother.

Harmattan(en)

Survival and paranoia will be the forces that destroy a bond between two recruits when their camp's only source of water runs out.

The Fantasy of a Barnacle(fr)

Elisa and Mathieu are siblings at their early 20s. She has incestuous desires for her brother who has a girlfriend, but he refuses her. She struggles with her forbidden desire and plays a trick on him.

Redcoats(en)

During the Revolutionary War, Emily, her daughter Sarah and her two young grandchildren have to look after themselves and run the family farm while the men fight for the patriots' cause. With winter approaching, crops dwindling and food shortages mounting, the women face their greatest fears when three lost British soldiers storm into their house demanding food, drink and anything else they can get their hands on.

Bangkok Rats(th)

After a pillage a girl was held hostage. Wat, a crime boss attempts to seek out the truth behind the night of the robbery.

Lalibela(uk)

On the eve of Easter, an icon depicting the Ethiopian Mother of God enters a Ukrainian village. After the icon is noticed by regular parishioners, a conflict begins between the young priest and his flock. Peasants do not agree to have a dark-skinned Mother of God in the church. One night someone makes his way to the church and cuts the icon. After the night events, the icon begins to pour myrrh.

In The Woods We Can Be Together(en)

Under the scalding heat of the summer sun, two young men find shelter in the woods of a local park. Unbeknownst to them, they’re thrust into a summer of exploration, emotion, and romance. But is love enough?

The Confession(zh)

Two best friends discover a deeper meaning of life as they grow closer.

Caity(en)

Along with her newly sober father Paul, 16-year-old Caity prepares for the new Halloween season of their family-owned haunted house. When she recognizes signs of a relapse from Paul, she tries to cover them up but struggles to manage as she tests her own relationship to substances and an attraction to new employee Hannah.

The Last Supper(pt)

A woman prepares a delicious banquet for a dinner party.

Praiano(pt)

Iamerica(en)

Erica Stateland; a Medal of Honor recipient, suffering from survivors guilt, is hired to coach Marc Beckham; a "cancelIed" actor to play a war hero in the comeback movie of his career. The unlikely relationship that unfolds is a testament to the equalizer that is grief. It's a story about being human and learning that the highest form of courage can come, not from what you've done, but who you choose to be as a result of it.

Friend of War(ru)

The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a snow-covered road, the Germans are transporting a group of civilians. Thoughts of imminent death inevitably visit the passengers of the van. The Catholic priest accompanying the arrested, among whom there is a boy, prepares the companions to leave for another world. A complex psychological conflict arises between the priest and the boy. Circumstances develop in such a way that the boy manages to escape.

Fidelity(en)

A short comedy about infidelity, drinking too much at parties, and letting go.

Derailed(ru)

A group of travelers finds themselves stranded at a railroad station, waiting for a train that never seems to come. Yan realizes that his fiancee, Mila, is not at the station, and follows her to the nearby village. He finds her at a local night club and she is almost happy to see him. Almost, because Mila insists that something awful has happened to them.

Maysa(en)

Maysa unfolds over a single afternoon as a young woman and her stoic middle eastern mother navigate the quiet tension of a long-held silence. As memories of migration and girlhood surface in fractured flashbacks, their unspoken history begins to unravel. A tender, restrained portrait of love, resilience, and the things women carry - even when they no longer have to.

Fifteen Love(es)

Alexandra has been playing tennis for as long as she can remember. After years of training under the instructions of her father, Julio (a retired tennis player who intends to relive his victories through his daughter), she has become one of the most promising junior tennis players in the Spanish circuit. During one of the most important tournaments of the 1978 season, the increasing pressure from her father will exert on and off the court will begin to affect her mental health. With the arrival of adolescence and the questions it brings, Alex will realize that, perhaps, this is not her destiny.

Flora(es)

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.