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Teng and Mai seek temporary refuge inside a shelter for pregnant women and girls. Mai, unlike Teng, is not a first time mother. She went to Manila to work as housekeeper after her passport was faked by the agency that’s supposed to help her get a job abroad. On the other hand, Teng left Negros Occidental without her father’s consent. Her eagerness to provide for her family was driven by her mother who abandoned them. Their personal dilemma led them to a shelter where they receive proper care as they prepare for motherhood. Now that their stay has come to an end, they are bound to make the hardest decisions of their lives not just as daughters to their parents but as mothers to their babies.

Sarajevo 1969-2019. Half a century of Sarajevo told from the point of view of Sejo Sexon, leader of the most authentic rock band of our period. An intimate story that starts from childhood, dreams, failed attempts and first successes.

Using a camera moving along a predetermined path to create the effect of a simulated zoom, Sweet Light refers to the seduction of illumination, focusing on the phototropic vision of a moth. Writes Viola, "A moth emerges from a discarded letter as the spirit of a dead thought and — after an attempted flight to freedom — an individual appears, is inexorably drawn into the source of light, and consumed."

Sasha is used to hiding from the problems of her personal life at work. But what if the refuge no longer saves and all that remains is to follow a light that flashed only for one night?

This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film director who is not sure how his film within a film will be created. He is distracted by his troubled marriage and has difficulty focusing on his project.

Lisa, student and artist, who is 17, is so in love with Kyiv, but because of the war she was forced to leave this city and emigrate to Western Europe. Together with this creative person, we tried to create the image of Kyiv as it appears to us today. Drawing is the best way to reflect the images and feelings of memories. I wanted Lisa to turn her “Lights of Kyiv” into a painting. I wanted to turn on “The Lights of Kyiv”.

The fairy tale forms the idea of the child that nothing in life is given just like that. To achieve something, you need to work hard, and you need to pay for "light bread".

La Petite École in Brussels welcomes children who have never attended school, who are often from an immigrant background. Marie and Juliette have created a place outside of the classical structures of learning, where children can learn to be or become children again. But the price for this is the constant deconstruction of conventional education, and endless devotion.

Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. At first the idyllic daily life following the rhythm of nature and the development of the kid's identity set the tone of the film. We go along with the boy and his family for six years. Little by little emerges a more complex reality and its contradictions, between modernity and tradition, nature and technology. The arrival of electricity and tourism in the village crystallizes the deconstruction of an idealized paradise, drawing a portrait of contemporary Brazil.

Vitali has always wanted to be a priest. There is only one thing left to do: according to the rules of the Eastern Orthodox Church, he needs to find a wife. Waiting for the change to come, he rents a flat with a friend from the seminary. They turn the two tiny rooms filled with books and icons into their own world, living beyond time and mundane rules. Years go by and Vitali’s family in Belarus is still waiting for the return of the priest.

When night falls, three characters from different generations reveal their innermost secrets. Three people from different cultures and, more importantly, different generations – Eliane, Romes and Pablo – decide to take action in their lives before it’s too late. Recognized for her short films (Le futur proche, La ronde), Sophie Goyette scrupulously chronicles the quest of three protagonists who have reached a turning point in their personal journey. For her first feature, she delivers a meditative work steeped in the universal questions of human nature.

Zenkichi made a living by performing "Utsushi-E" to entertain the common people in early 19th century Japan.

Félix Monti is synonymous with cinematography in Argentina. From his early steps in the legendary San Miguel studios to his recent work in large-scale Argentine film productions, Chango has never stopped working. Directors Alejandra Martín and Paola Rizzi, also colleagues of his, chose not to shoot a motionless documentary and filled it with vitality –the same vitality the experienced cinematographer moves around with in every shoot or stage he sets foot in.

The members of the Super GUTS force, one of whom is secretly Ultraman Dyna, are in the middle of a losing battle against an enormous monster on the surface of the moon, when suddenly a spaceship appears and saves them by zapping the beast. The crew of the ship claim to members of the world peace force that originally created the Super GUTS force, and they invite the GUTS members to enter their brainwave patterns into the ship's battle computer so it can be a more effective fighting system. It sounds like a good idea, but could they have some other plan up their sleeves?

A documentary that explores how to cope with fear, the excitement of searching for interesting news, and the unexpected consequences of this devotion. The heroes are the director himself and military journalist Andrii Tsapliienko, who record various aspects of the life of a military journalist - from a report about the shelling of Kyiv by Russian army, subsequent injury, and to Andrii's journey through cities and towns in search of a lost friend and inner light.

In the Atacama Desert, Antay and his friends struggle to keep their drought-stricken town afloat.

Nozomi, who has a younger sister with a mental disability, has not revealed her sister's existence to her lover Takashi - who is confused when he discovers her existence. From there, he faces the concerns peculiar to families with disabilities, one after the other, and despairs in his own life, which is far from "normal" life, while Nozomi tries to give up his marriage to Takashi.

Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. The murderer justified his crimes stating he was chosen by God to fulfill the desire for liberation and death of his victims.