Stand Up for Your Friends

O Silêncio Que Você Faz(pt)

In This Place Where We Lie(en)

Jacob & Amelia grapple with the loss of their unborn child.

The Soft Space(en)

The corridors, stairways and platforms of a subway station are juxtaposed with the human body, each broken into parts and positioned in an existential consideration of the transient spaces we unconsciously traverse everyday.

Shadows on the Road(en)

After a violent altercation, a runaway youth goes on the lam with a charming beach dweller offering an easy way out, but once they skip town, she quickly realizes that the harrowing past she's running from is one she may never escape.

Chronic(en)

CHRONIC is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began mutilating herself as a girl to cope with a traumatic mid-western childhood. The lush optically-printed scenes take Gretchen’s point of view from her punk youth, a stay in a mental hospital, and her release into the big city. Scripted scenes are inter-spliced with documentary and found footage, illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner world and relationships from her birth to her final day.

Youth China hits headlines(zh)

Death of a Boy(fi)

Death of a Boy follows Albert, who is very shy and insecure. With the aim of bringing Albert out of his shell, his older brother Jon decides to bring him along to a boxing gym, where aggression is respected and the violence is controlled through disciplined practice.

Amine(fr)

Father dreams of a diving champion but Amine fancies synchronised swimming.

Emily(en)

The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.

We Go Way Back(en)

A tragic-comic tale with surrealistic tendencies about a lost 23-year-old who is haunted by her disappointed 13-year-old self.

Thirty Years of Adonis(zh)

Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.

Foxed!(en)

A girl finds herself kidnapped by foxes. Animated.

Day Trip(ko)

A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed.

L'attesa dell'Alba(it)

The Woman in the Room(en)

A lonely and exhausted young woman caring for her ill father must make a difficult decision as his health rapidly declines.

The Woman in the Room(en)

Johnny is burdened with the desire to euthanize his terminally ill mother in order to relieve her.

Votum(en)

Mary is slowly succumbing to dementia in a Sanatorium. She knows that her condition is irreversible and time is not on her side.

Grandfather(ca)

Antonio is 92 years old and lives on his own in Penàguila, a small Spanish village in the Mediterranean mountains. In his old age, he spends his days enjoying the good weather on the patio, doing minimal tasks, and teaching things to younger generations. His old age sets the pace in a village where he has lived all his life and where his past is around him, like the family restaurant or the fields he used to harvest. The arrival of the cold winter will change it all.

Numbers Of All(en)

A mathematical researcher tries to solve an unproven theorem, when it ends up more difficult than anticipated he risks being eroded by obsession.

Insalata Mista(fr)

Juliette is twenty years old. She returned from the supermarket and is lost in her thoughts. A man tries to approach... Juliet enters the apartment she shares with William and there's a tension around a message left on the answering machine by a man for Juliette...