The In Between

This show is about four men and four women who are friends in real life going on a journey to look for love. On their journey, their friendship is tested and some friends turns out to be enemies. They have to choose between giving up love for their friendship or letting go of their friends for love.

This black humor pan-Arabic anthology series is about love in general – and relationships in particular.

Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.

The series revolves around the struggle of money and power, through Marwan, who owns a real estate company, which despite being religiously committed, offers money and interest in the first place.

The ancient demon, Dongfang Qingcang, who has been suppressed for a thousand years, comes back to the three worlds and starts a war between immortals and demons the moment he is reborn. In order to get out, the demon lord swaps souls with the immortal Lan Hua, who has difficulty controlling her magic power, and accidentally kills her immortal body. In desperation, the two embarked on a journey to find a new body. Along the way, the two experienced all sorts of things, fighting and joking, and Lan Hua started to develop feelings for Dongfang Qingcang, but little does she know that all this time, Dongfang Qingcang only used her as a tool to resurrect the ancient god of war Chi Di, and under the calm a larger conspiracy is also quietly carried out ......

This lighthearted sitcom follows the life of twin sisters with contrasting personalities. Zhou Xinggui is a wedding dress designer with an open mind and a trendy appearance. Due to her work, she gets to know a married dentist and gets involved with him, leading to many funny incidents and misunderstandings. Meanwhile, her sister, Zhou Xingzhi, works as a nurse in the dentist's clinic and is conservative in her thinking, stern, and opposes her sister's relationship with the dentist. To make things more complicated, Xingzhi and the dentist's wife are good friends, leaving Xingzhi in a dilemma.

Composed of 8 episodes that are each about 6 minutes long, the drama tells interesting stories of a couple in an office-dating relationship. Even though each clip is short, the web drama as a whole offers various sides of office dating such as heart-throbbing moments before the relationship blooms and little misunderstanding and difficulties arise in a relationship.

It tells a realistic and relatable romance between young people wandering in love and boredom, who face each other in front of a motel elevator on the night of their seventh-year relationship.

Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time. She collides with unruly experiences of adolescence – quinceañeras, Rio Grande river excursions, teen makeovers and beyond – that invite her to soak up the details of the home her brother adored and she ignored. What emerges is a playful dance between a personal and collective coming-of-age portrait of kids on the border and Robie herself as she rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief.

The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, have sex, and choose.

After reaching a point of no return in his life, Ngo Pak Yin grows power-hungry. Through his aggression and strict grasp of the law, Pak Yin paves his way to becoming one of Hong Kong’s top solicitors. But power often leads to blindness. Pak Yin becomes ruthless and inconsiderate of others, leading to his wife Rebecca Tsang Bo Lam, who had quietly supported him through the years, to grow more distant. She realizes that they no longer share the same values, and is heartbroken. During this time, she grows closer to Patrick Lui Wing Hang, who opens up a window into her inner world. Patrick is also a solicitor, but he is neither as famous nor as abled as her husband. Despite these setbacks, Rebecca falls in love with Patrick, who seems to be the only person who can fulfill her troubled heart. She makes the executive decision to leave her husband, but is suddenly attacked by a mysterious man. She suspects that Pak Yin had hired someone to attack her. Pak Yin’s life is at an impasse once again. Finally realizing his wrongdoings, Pak Yin decides to change for the better. But this time, he’s changing while carrying a heart of gold.

A young biracial woman raised in France travels to Burkina Faso in search of the mother she hasn’t seen in many years. Meanwhile, in Paris, an émigré from Burkina Faso who makes her living as a cleaner teaches the Dioula language to a white middle-class office worker, in this affecting story of global displacement.

This short film tells the story of a forbidden relationship between two young girls, a relationship that is inevitably torn apart by the tension surrounding them.

A story about life before and during the events of the year 2020.

Felix and Katrin have been together for quite a while and live together. Felix works as a waiter. Katrin hates her economic studies and her job at a call center. Common dreams? They haven’t had those for a while either. When Katrin’s new friend Christina offers her a job as an assistant for a fashion shoot in Milan, Katrin suddenly feels like she has some perspectives in life, after all. But Felix doesn’t like her new friends and cannot share her euphoria, which doesn’t help their difficult relationship. Katrin’s mother is somewhat critical of her daughter’s relationship and wants to have a heart-to-heart talk with her. Felix seeks distraction with his friends in the pub.

A young woman loses her soul as she sleeps, and feels less alive each day. With the help of a young man's ghost and an old curandera, she finds her way back from being in between life and death.

In the bluish light of dawn, mysterious silhouettes emerge from the water, then vanish one by one on the ground. A woman pushes the door of a building open. It is the famous Hotel Belvédère built in the 1930s in Cerbère on the Spanish border, where Cham Lavant has chosen to set the scene of his first film. An elegant fable with old-fashioned charm, Entre les Rails [In between the Rails] is a variation on the theme of transition and here introduces a treasure trove of faded memories. Singing performances and choreographed circular steps bring the place back to life to the sound of enchanting choirs and heels tapping on the ground. At the foot of this timeless stone liner, the train continues to pass by.

The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World War II. Emilia and her husband Dr. Sanguineti work tirelessly beside the humble but sensible Pio.

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese Civil War. It also marks the frontline for Taiwan in its escalating tension with China.

Frantz Fanon is a renowned politician and decolonialisation activist. This feature focuses on his visionary social therapy methods during his time as a psychiatrist in Algeria from 1953 to 1956. A piece of sober anti-racism.