As Mulheres da Beira

BEIRA-MAR

The Girl Is Taken by Aliens

"Don't go out on the night of the Ghost Festival." A warning that all children with Chinese mothers are all too familiar with. 18-year-old Ming feels like the only weirdo in the small German town. On this midsummer night, after a disastrous party, she stumbles upon strange beings... In this surreal moment, she realizes who she truly is.

Adulthood

Made over 15 years, Adulthood is a feature composed of six short films, each chapter following a couple as they grow older without necessarily growing up.

Reminiscence

When fate brings two friends anxiously awaiting the uncertain future together, a life-altering conversation will change how they remember the past.

Ο Γυρισμός της Μάνας

Road To L'Etape Du Tour

Facing a turning point in her life, a woman with a congenital heart defect embarks on a journey to train for a stage of the Tour de France.

Echoes of Wings

Struggling with life in Tokyo after a run-in with the law, Seita attempts to settle down in rural and snowy Ikeda.

Teeth of A Fawn

Bea can’t breathe when her girlfriend’s away.

Still Life

In 1999, Dafne must juggle school, ballet rehearsals, a nascent romance and the everyday rhythms of youth, all while living with the underlying fear and grief that her mother's leukemia casts over everything.

The Samurai and the Prisoner

When Lord Murashige rises up against the tyrannical Oda, he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With Oda's army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei, a brilliant and dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon, as he must outwit his enemies and uncover the truth before time runs out.

Limbo

Dua Ji

In rural Taiwan, during her mother’s funeral, A-Hsien, the eldest daughter, grapples with grief, resentment, and the quiet burden of tradition. As patriarchal rituals unfold, a silent resistance emerges, unsettling the roles she was expected to fulfill.

Water of Immortality

Ghoul

This dark fantasy depicts the horror that befalls a group of young people who are gathered in a Western-style mansion deep in the mountains by an unknown entity. Kota and Yosuke were best friends, but a certain incident caused them to drift apart. One day, they are each invited to the mansion deep in the mountains and reunite, only to find that they, along with other young strangers, have been gathered there. The mansion's butler, Moriyama, appears before them and tells them they cannot leave unless they confess to their master.

Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’

Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the big four of classic Chinese novels, has been adapted for film and television dozens of times over the past decades. Yet this sui generis Great Wall production daringly transposes the setting to modern-day 1950s. The contemporised story revolves nonetheless around the love triangle between Jia Baoyu and his two cousins. Both girls love him but his heart belongs to only one. The ending, however, is remarkably changed to separation of the lovers as a result of war—the war that was surely still haunting the minds of the filmmakers at the time when the film was made. Not only did Great Wall pour money into building extravagant sets just so to recreate down to the smallest detail the grandeur of the legendary Jia mansion, but the film also boasted of its lavish costume designs for the diverse female cast. (From Hong Kong Film Archive)

Butterfly Affect

A young black ballet dancer from a South London Council Estate must learn how to survive in two opposing worlds in order to spread his wings.