Catenaria

This Woman Is Not a Car

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.

Effi o Blaenau

Hard-partying young woman Effi lives in rural Wales, whose life largely revolves around drinking vodka with her friends and eating instant noodles to cure her subsequent hangovers – until her life suddenly changes dramatically.

El tacto no nos olvida

Two homeless children collect cardboard to survive. Despite the tenderness that sustains them, the cold nights weigh heavily upon them.

Trash

March, 2021. Claudia, a 24-year-old girl, tries to barely survive in the pandemic and precarious Madrid. After being threaten by his landlord in case she doesn’t pay the months’ rent that she owes him, Claudia decides to start working as a rider for a food delivery app. An unexpected reunion when she is delivering an order takes her on a bittersweet journey into the past and raises some questions she had never asked herself before.

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Right Across from Where Mangoes Fall

At daybreak, a mother and daughter muse over loss, pain, and absence.

Where the Day Takes You

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg. When Heather, a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of the gang. However, it seems as though nothing will alter their dangerous lifestyle.

Halifax Pier

At the end of a tangled relation- ship, Myra and Percy begin to feel the anxiety of the everyday creep in.

Who Trains My Hands to War

Founding a social Muay Thai project in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Mestre BG and his competitors face the adversities of an underfunded project and fight to win their place on the podium. The challenges intensify when one of the students, Raíssa Pacheco, secures a spot to compete in a South American championship in Uruguay.

URAI

Epitaph

A solitary young woman living with her dog becomes the target of neighbourhood slander. Her sudden suicide—and the earlier discovery of a dead foetus—fuels harsher speculation. Two neighbouring families, a young couple and an elderly father with his bedridden daughter, confront their own fears while discussing her fate. Her ambiguous life and death expose a society quick to judge independent women yet capable of rare empathy.

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Campaign

Synopsis: It is a complex and intersecting narrative of one day and night of the life of Fariborz and Mehboob, which leads them to another couple named Ashkan and Neda due to an incident. In the midst of this commotion and conflicts, everyone is thinking of saving his life, but...

La niña tatuada

The Treatment

Miguel is bald and thinks it is a problem, but now he has been contacted by a clinic that promises a treatment with one hundred percent results. Sounds almost too good to be true - and that's what the side effects are.

Decisiones de Papel

The Kyiv Resident

The story of the growing up of the orphan Gali between the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War. Large-scale historical drama with Nina Ivanova.

Intimacies

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary-style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie.

Silence In The Wind

When Biju goes against the will of the parents to get married, a secret is revealed - an identity that is borderline taboo and repugnant in his society.