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Tracktown(en)

A bright, talented and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she's never done before: take a day off.

I've Got to Kill Maria(es)

I've been following her for a week. I've got to kill Maria.

Back Again(es)

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

Tin Head(pt)

After the loss of his mother, a boy uses his imagination to escape reality, creating and playing characters. As a result, despite their grief, his family needs to do everything they can to deal with the boy's fantasies.

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away(zh)

Grieving over the death of an ex-girlfriend, Jia Le moves in to stay with an actor friend. The actor, however, often suffers spasms of pain in his body as he prepares to move to China for a better life. Before leaving, the actor performs in an adaptation of controversial writer Yukio Mishima's Noh Play, 'Dojoji'. Both men try to find a glimmer of happiness in their lives.

Dissolution(en)

A woman is forced to confront her elderly husband’s physical deterioration when they meet to sign their divorce papers.

Shadow(en)

A young mother's shadow takes on a life of its own, terrorizing her and her daughter over the course of one night.

Virus(en)

While surfing the web, a complete dumbass receives an email that's too good to be true. He takes the bait and is thrown headfirst down the rabbit hole, where he must reckon with a deadly computer virus.

Teddy the Rough Rider(en)

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Revive(zh)

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.

Holestepper(es)

Angel, an enthusiastic high school teacher, discovers a web page where he is teased by his students through strange videos. Mixing the reality and the digital universe adolescent, Angel will be involved in a world hitherto unknown.

The Search for Human(fr)

In a fantasy world, a griffin embraces his fate and goes on an epic journey to find a legendary creature : The Human.

Lili(en)

Lili refuses to let go of her childhood fights a sandstorm who threatens to take it away.

The Hand of God(it)

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

Utal(en)

The story follows a transferee student named Samuel. After being displaced because of war and violence, Samuel tries his best to look for peace as he tries to conquer his stutter problems which he developed after being exposed to the brutal reality of war.

Forget Me Not(th)

Expression of the heart of a man who loves his friend. Until he gets old and his friend dies; Love is still there and it is eternal.

Hotel Al Naim(ar)

The octopus believes that the hand in front of it is a prey, but it doesn't know that behind every hand, there is an arm...

A Última Bisca(pt)

Waves(it)

Paolo, a forty-year-old single man, spends his time between his flat and the museum of fake fruits, where he works as a guard. He lives in a suspended bubble, unaware of his unhappiness and inability to react. An accidental meeting will shift, maybe definitely, his inner world.

Glances(en)

When two strangers lock eyes in a café, they both have to deal with unexpected feelings.