After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward and clumsy. Huiju turns once again to her familiar rituals: pruning the trees, preparing a sauce, tying a braid.

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Welcome Home Freckles

Hassan is an airport customs officer who needs a salary advance to buy his mother’s medication. While dealing with various passengers, the dark side of his job becomes clear. Ultimately Hassan must decide what matters to him the most, and at what cost.

Empty Your Pockets ( جیب هایتان را خالی کنید )

In a dark alley, a scrawny rat has no choice but to fight with a pigeon for a small slice of pizza. Without a second thought, they throw themselves in a vertiginous chase from the top to the bottom of the street.

TRASH

In a dark alley, a scrawny rat has no choice but to fight with a pigeon for a small slice of pizza. Without a second thought they throw themselves in a vertiginous chase from the top to the bottom of the street.

Violeta, the young daughter of a widowed electrical maintenance worker, retreats to her mother’s neglected music workshop to play music to remember her. When she causes a widespread power cut, tensions rise between father and daughter, bringing their grief to a boiling point.

Synthesize Me

In April 1989, in a liminal town near Mexico City, young teenager Violeta finds a way to bring her mother's synthesizers back to life with disastrous consequences for her and her father.

1857. Coutances. Two farmer girls find a smartphone in their field.

Réel (Real)

1857. Coutances. Two farmer girls find a smartphone in their field.

An absurdist tragedy set in a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by an ingenuous salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

Deux Personnes échangeant de la Salive (Two People Exchanging Saliva)

In a farcical world where kissing is punishable by death, a personal shopper threatens the status quo.

The film follows Amos’ journey to understand his single, alcoholic father. He travels to a liquor store armed with his father’s ID to buy alcohol, but no matter his determination to present himself as his father, everything keeps going wrong. Eventually, on his way home, he passes by a Sunday mass service and attends service to get drunk on the Communion wine. After tasting alcohol, meeting unlikely friends, and going on the journey of a lifetime, Amos has to decide whether or not he can find contempt in the incomprehension of his father’s illness.

The Thrilling Adventure of Amos Waters

The Thrilling Adventure of Amos Waters" follows 10-year-old Amos as he tries to understand his alcoholic father by embarking on a quest that leads him through unexpected encounters and discoveries, ultimately confronting the reality of his father's illness.

Sam, a trans millennial, is back in the dating game after years of discomfort in their skin interfering with meaningful connection. Now, in the early stages of hormone therapy and feeling more themself than ever, they decide to put themself out there again.&nbsp; Euphoric opens on the latter half of Sam’s steamy first date with Olivia, another queer millennial whose warmth and grounded nature leads Sam to open up in a way neither could have predicted.&nbsp;

Euphoric

Sam brings Olivia home from a first date gone *very* well. After a few stumbling blocks getting into the rhythm, the two find their way back by confronting what could make or break this burgeoning queer romance... comfort in your own body.

Gilbert and Sullivan are two inhabitants of a small archipelago in the middle of the ocean where its residents live in ﬂoating houses with a small dock each. Sullivan is a musician and plays the ﬁscorn. He studies and rehearses tirelessly on the dock of his house. Gilbert is the postman of the archipelago and is dedicated to punctually delivering the packages that arrive from the sky every morning. One morning during the delivery, Gilbert feels a special attraction for one of the packages he must deliver. This is a package destined for his neighbor Sullivan. Inexplicably, that morning Gilbert shirks his duty and decides not to deliver the box to its recipient. That decision will change the course of their friendship forever.

Gilbert

Gilbert and Sullivan are inhabitants of a small archipelago in the middle of the ocean where Sullivan is a trumpeter and Gilbert distributes packages with his gondola. But one day Gilbert decides to keep a package that was intended for his neighbor.

The Show! is a short meditative comedy about teen outsiders from a Chicago public high school who are brought together by classmate and artist, Rachel! The film celebrates the joyful and weird in-between spaces that queer, black, brown, and immigrant students create in a broken school system. It was developed as a collaboration between Chicago public school students, educators, and filmmakers – with youth both in front of and behind the camera.

The Show!

An observant artist and weird-o, Rachel, schemes to bring together other outsiders at a rundown Chicago Public High School.

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