Out of Focus(2024)

A Different Tree(en)

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

She's Just Making It Up(en)

This coming-of-age story features our heroine Addie who is about to turn 30. Everything a good girl is supposed to do, she's done it. So why isn't it working? At what point is it no longer noble, but stupid, to continue doing the right thing if it's only making her miserable.

3(nl)

Two sisters (Geerteke van Lierop, Nicole Moerland) meet with their estranged mother (Monic Hendrickx). While they're trying to connect over the course of a day, we hear the thoughts of their deceased father (Rutger Hauer).

Tees(hi)

Spanning across 90 years, follow a middle-class Muslim family across three generations. 2042. Six months after his manuscript titled Tees (30) is rejected for publication by the Literature and Arts Commission, Anhad Draboo, a young freelance prostitute, meets Niharika, a “reader” from the Commission – who has been searching for Anhad ever since she read his manuscript. 2018. Zia Draboo, a corporate lawyer living in Mumbai and all set to buy the flat she has been renting with her partner Meera, finds out she cannot buy it because of the Housing Society’s resistance to her name. 1989-90. Ayesha, a housebound State Radio newsreader in Srinagar, Kashmir, reaches out to her childhood friend Usha to solicit help from her husband – a government official. She needs it for her own husband, Ghulam Muhammad, who faces bankruptcy and ruin amongst rising unrest in the city.

The Split-Up(en)

In the inflation era, Jacob, who recently got kicked out, is desperate to find a home, when landing on a cheap listing he doesn’t read the fine print, unknowing what he got himself into.

Autumn of Life(en)

Grumpy old man Bert learns to overcome his feelings of isolation when cheerful new resident George arrives at his care home; forming an unforeseen friendship.

Unlocked(hi)

Zoya Diwan and her 8 year old son are stuck in an abusive marriage with her activist husband, when she is sought out for help by a victim of Triple Talaq

In Another Life(es)

Lina is about to marry a man who she's not sure she's in love with, in that moment, she remembers her grandma's words and heads in search of answers to a house that only opens its doors with the right question.

María(es)

Bianca(it)

A boy must face his sister's infection during a zombie apocalypse

A Lear of the Steppes(en)

Based on Turgenev's novel

The Tree of Life(en)

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Face to Face(en)

The film "Bicara Empat Mata" was made with the aim of being a representational medium that can illustrate the negative impacts when parents and children are unable to carry out effective communication.

Wedding in the Rearguard(hy)

On the wedding day of the only son of the family, news arrives of the outbreak of war in Artsakh. All the horrors of the war are brought to life without a single gunshot.

Abandoned and Alone(af)

Oupa en Ouma try to survive during harsh conditions on a farm. With no one around to help. they rely on nothing but their faith.

HARLEM FRAGMENTS(en)

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural disaster so mesmerizing you can't look away from the tragedy. Based on true events- The film explores the haunting societal pressures of achieving the Black American dream, told in the POV of 10 year old TJ revisiting his family's home that's up for sale. By empowering this Black boy in this film with the agency to imagine, TJ, through his own journey, finds a way to process and come to terms with his family's divorce. It's important for every Black child out there enduring the same foreign emotions to know that it's okay to feel them, and affirm that there is a future trajectory forward out of the initial destruction.

Resta Con Me(it)

Umakoti Wethu(zu)

Khathu, a Venda woman struggling to conceive, finds herself in crisis when her Zulu husband's new job takes them back to KwaZulu-Natal, his overbearing mother, and his old flame.

Une Odeur de Géranium(en)

To make her meeting with her lover Bernard, Françoise needs Julien's help. Julien is 11, Françoise, 14. They're brother and sister.

The White Odyssey(bg)

During World War 2, four soldiers are trapped between a harsh winter and the enemy. They need food and shelter, but this comes at the expense of their position. With no where else to turn, they begin an Odyssey through the mountains.