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Told in a whisper, this quiet and diaristic film explores toxic masculinity through personal narrative, family legacy, and video games. El nombre de las cosas speaks aloud the unspoken and unspeakable, to give a name to traumas in order to heal them. Deeply poetic and disarmingly honest, director Diego Escobar uses his own story to address a widespread problem of inherited male aggression and all the ways families – and society – cope with and adapt to its toxicity.

The Weight of Things explores this world of layers, these liminal spaces between heaven and hell, life and death, hope and despair. It is a visual testament of these pandemic times, of the invisible weights we bear. These weights of words and actions, unpursued dreams, the loss of loved ones—these burdens that bind us and hold us down, making it all too easy to forget the lightness of possibility. To not only be weighed down but to also become the weight…

Directed by Michael Lev-Tov.

A dark night is lit up with the fluorescent colours and metallic sounds of an illegal party. Andrea, the organiser and DJ, confesses his joys and turmoils through a series of increasingly delirious voice messages addressed to someone far away. It is Andrea’s solitary cry for help: as we uncover his relationship with the listening ghost, he narrates his human experiences at the clandestine rave. In a reality where policing and punishment go hand in hand, a party suspended in space and time inflames the city, setting free the bodies we inhabit. In this new day and age can we still find ways to connect with each other or are we alone even when we are together?

A film highlighting the issue of street children and the marginalized social class living under the pressure of economic conditions in a shanty district. Nahid escapes from her stepfather’s harassment only to become a victim of a horrible rape incident. She then becomes a dancer.

A young woman, Léna, drives to her father’s second funeral after a vault error. On the way, she picks up two brothers who are hitchhiking. This unlikely meeting at a crucial moment in her life will change the course of her journey.

An urban legend of Athens says that in the 80s a girl was swept away by an ancient underground river that nobody has ever seen. Today a young anthropologist is researching the case, interviewing the girl’s three best friends and their former history teacher.

Three narratives of love transpire in a struggling thrift store. Its Caretaker finds love with a mannequin. The Fish finds comfort with the Caretaker. And the Owner yearns for her dead husband.

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You cannot choose your parents or the place where you are born. These are the thoughts of a daughter who cannot rebel. As a little girl, she spent a lot of time with her mother, a fervent Catholic woman. She would have rather spent time with her father, but he was busy hiding an extra-marital affair everyone knew but kept quiet about. Today, time goes by slowly inside and outside their home. Family problems are silenced, the Campania region suburbs lie on the background.

All Tender Things tells a story about six characters gathered around a campfire. When the flames starts to fade the fire needs to be fed. Books are sufficient at first, but as the night grows darker, the fire demands more sacrifices.

During an audio message sent to his daughter, a father reflects on how the recent discovery of dusty reels and scratchy VHS tapes capturing childhood moments has propelled him on a journey of ancient memories and forgotten dreams . Using a blend of personal, public domain, and freely available footage, the film deconstructs reality and reimagines the past, questioning where memory ends and imagination begins.

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

Luca is having lunch with his parents and his partner. During the goliardic atmosphere between embarrassments and smiles, Luca makes a very important confession at the table. The clarification with the parents and with the partner will put Luca in front of the awareness of being a victim of his imagination and of not having had the real courage to externalize the unspoken things.

Luciano tries to evade the weariness sensation in his life through music and sex in a city that deprives him from pleasure and submit him under the imminent siege of things.

Francesca wishes to take a nap at what was once her home, but stillness is interrupted by the presence of what is or used to be there. Nostalgia, absurdity and fantasy blend in a brief moment to create an atypical pictorial place.

Sebastian, a renowned orchestra conductor, loses his son in a motorcycle accident for which his wife blames him, leading to the family's disintegration. With the intention to recover his daughter's affection, he takes her to Guanajuato, where he has a presentation. However, the unexpected encounter with a mortally wounded old man, who asks him for help to fulfill his last wish, will involve them in that mysterious murder, starting at that point a battle against their conscience and their own survival... a dangerous race against the clock. A touching story of drama and action, which shows us how a common family can be, when they less expect it, the main players in a surprising and dangerous adventure, for in life anything can change... when things happen.

An aging clockmaker repairs watches and recounts his memories as a political prisoner during the Romanian dictatorship. A film about routine, resilience and the echoes of time.

A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.