The In Between

A man yearns to go into the ocean across the street from his house, but suffers from an illness that prevents him from doing so.

Between the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop. Five years after graduation from university, the main characters return to see themselves from the side and try to catch what is happening between the frames. The story is told by ex-students while they are watching behind-the-scenes archives of their student performance The Cabaret and reflecting upon the years that have passed. In the center of the story stands a teacher as a life-turning figure for each of the characters.

In 2016, director Charlotte Røhder Tvedt sent out an open call for people all across Norway to document their world in the form of a film clip. More than 900 entries were submitted and from these contributions, Røhder Tvedt assembled a collage of beautiful everyday moments, personal confessions and kinetic bursts of dance and movement. As the film cycles through expressions of love, loneliness, joy and sorrow, patterns and connections appear and it becomes clear that Between Us is a film about how we relate to one another.

This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.

An ordinary woman and an ordinary girl have an extraordinary experience that etches itself in the memory of one of them. What was said has almost completely disappeared and what remains is everything in between, the physical.

A tired guy Petya orders a libraty excursion 'an excursion that is arranged with love' for passing time, and meets a beautiful girl.

Based on interviews with over one hundred people including musicians, hockey fans, farmers, executives, and pensioners in the market. From Latvian President Vaira Vike- Freiberga and business tycoon Aivars Lembergs, to Russian poet Sergei Timofeyev, all discussions stem from one question: What does it mean to be Latvian?

Jorge asks Noah for a special favor that questions the limits of friendship and his identity.

Hannah, 24, has been in Paris for six months and has partnered with Greg. One night, she goes out with Greg and meets a girl with whom she begins to flirt. They end the evening in bed and make love.

In the era of China’s big famine, a maiden called Flower gets sick due to long-term malnutrition. In order to have her recovered, her father steals some millet to make a bowl of rice. Restored to health, Flower tells how she had the rice. An official heard about it and Flower’s father is immediately arrested. Feeling guilty and heart-broken, she believes that her words have killed her father.

When a child goes with his parents and older sister to a beach in Las Grutas, he accidentally touches a magic rock in a tidepool and starts perceiving reality in a different way.

An American woman comes to Belgrade to visit an old friend. There, on the exotic boundary between West and East, she becomes entangled in a love triangle.

Alessio and Edoardo have always been friends, united by a bond that seems indissoluble. During a late summer afternoon, under a gray sky swollen with rain, the two take refuge inside an abandoned shed. Guiding them is the desire to be together, to honor a promise, to share a challenge. To cling to the past, to deny the future. As far as possible.

We remember dates and facts, while losing tiny details – like a bouquet of summer wildflowers, tears from onions, winter cold on a bus stop bench. We remember the birthdays of our beloved and how they like their tea, but we forget unexpected touches, floating glances, casual chats. And sometimes – when we are rapidly torn apart from each other – we engrave such moments into our memory.

Bina (46), religious woman from Jerusalem, arrives panic-stricken at the hospital after her son Oliel (25) was severely injured in a stabbing attack. This is the first time she sees him since he became secular and lost contact with the family. Her husband, Meir (50) comes later only after their daughter Ester’s (28) insistence. At the hospital, Bina meets Amal (24). While Meir searches for answers to revive Oliel, the two despondent women bond with one another. However, Amal hides a secret from Bina and Meir. While waiting for Oliel’s revival, they will learn about truth, faith, understanding, acceptance, and love that can and maybe should replace fear of the unknown.

A love story in spots and stripes.

In the snowy and secluded Estonian forest, Marti lives his life through routine. Haunted by his past bad judgement, he has become distant and lifeless. Kalev, an old local shopkeeper and a friend to Marti, tries convincing Marti to let go of the past and move on. Due to an unexpected event and Kalev's persuasiveness Marti finds himself on the verge of a new beginning. After his routine trip to the shop, Marti finds a young woman Irene at his doorstep. Marti, although hesitant, invites her inside for a tea. It doesn't take Marti long to realize Irene is not who she says she is. Torn between the past and present, Marti finds himself in a cul-de-sac. Meanwhile, Kalev is alarmed by two men parked outside his shop and is certain of their bad intentions. Marti knowing of the sinister plot in motion, has to finally come to terms with himself or suffer the consequences.

Aya is a trans girl who is frustrated by her love life and experiences with men. An accidental encounter with a man from her distant past causes her to reconnect with her identity.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Luo’s elder brother has been staying with him, who finds the arrangement increasingly irritating. When Luo’s brother unknowingly ruins his carefully prepared dinner for a date, long-held grudges come to the surface and the brothers enter into a big fight. Despite Luo’s good intentions, it looks like the dinner date is going to fail, and as his brother intervenes to save the day, the two talk again. The nuanced short is highlighted by a remarkable performance and a story that flows effortlessly with affecting emotions.