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There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.

Athens, shortly before the outbreak of World War II and an Army General Staff official, Niki (Jenny Carezis), is charged with channeling confidential documents to an Italian agent. The category is right. The girl was blackmailing herself with the life of her brother studying in Italy. She does not make any effort to defend herself and is indifferent if she is sentenced to death, but she accepts the cooperative proposal proposed by General Darius, that is to continue to channel secret documents to the Italians, but now they are deliberately made to deceive the enemy . The whole case is also involved with a captain, Theodorou, who is in love with Niki. Theodorou is arrested for misappropriation of documents and goes through a military court where he is sentenced to demolition and death. Certainly, his execution was fictitious, and on the day Greek troops enter Korça, he is shown alive to Niki, which does not hide her surprise.

The story is about a fourteen-year-old girl Lisa, who is forced to move with her parents to a small town by the sea because she inadvertently becomes a participant in the senseless death of a classmate due to a dangerous children's game. In the absence of like-minded friends, Lisa loses meaning and thirst for life, and later finds a friend on the social network under the strange nickname White Whale and decides to commit suicide with him as a challenge to the intolerance of their lives. Based on Anastasia Nikulina's novel Salt for the Sea, or the White Whale.

Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.

Two grave robbers meet the spirit of the tomb they desecrated

Heesoo Kwon’s A Ritual for Metamorphosis (탈피를 위한 의식 ) is a video in which the artist attempts to re-frame her traumatic personal experiences through creating an alternate reality. Kwon imagines virtual space as a utopian realm where one can reimagine and revisualise the past. Through the body of a nude 3D avatar, she travels back to her childhood home, stepping inside home video taken by her father of family gatherings long ago. There she faces patriarchal family rituals and coercive religious rituals that she didn’t notice when she was young, and interrupts them with her avatar. On the soundtrack, we hear the repetitive rhythm of traditional ironing sticks hitting stone, used both a metaphor for the invisible labour of Korean women, and as a sound of healing and catharsis.

A film for little Staś is recorded on an amateur camera by a grownup Stan.

A documentary about the top Dutch chess players of 1979

During a rainy night on their apartment, two girls hear the notes of a piano vibrating on the upper floor. One of them goes upstairs to find out where the melody comes from and faces a series of paranormal events.

That day, yet again İsa goes to the depths of the forest, among the trees, in order to meet his desire to dream, which is his purpose of life and which has become indispensable for him. To him, the most serene chance to get into sleep and dreams has been that green cover of earth, where the wind offers relief and the trees shed their leaves upon him. Since he is not sure that he can reach his dream yet, he has a wish to be mentally peaceful before falling asleep and tries to prepare himself for his dream by imagining what he wants to see. After his stroll in the forest, he goes among the trees, turns himself into the arms of sleep, and now it's time to detach from the world to meet his dream.

The director sets out to find a hero for his film. He asks the people he meets along the way if they are heroes. The film reflects the portrait of the Azerbaijani people.

Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a «cinema for the blind«, where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

A middle-aged mother of two reflects on her emotional decision to immigrate to the United States some 30 years earlier, in this reflective documentary short that borrows its title from a uniquely powerful poem by the legendary exiled Cuban writer Lourdes Casal.

The author of the film, Indrek Spungin, has reached the harbour of love and peace, he is married and the father of several children. Everything seems beautiful, but one day his wife tells him that if nothing changes, then their love and marriage will soon come to an end. Indrek is confused. He takes his friend Taavi and a camera and goes to find out what love really is. He questions representatives from a variety of social groups on topics such as love and marriage.

When a villager Raquel meets Luís her life takes an unexpected turn.

Animated film produced by Zagreb Film

The protagonist, a film director, prepares to start a new project. He visits the home of a woman with whom he appears to be friends, following a failed romance. The man tells the woman the story of his new film.

When Joaquim, a frustrated writer living in the 70s, finds out his recently wed wife is cheating on him, he starts writing a suicide letter and prepares a surprise for his wife to find when she gets home from her lover's arms.