Mina is in Cannes to perform three nights during the Festival. She hangs out in cozy clubs and hotel rooms, moving from the arms of lovers to those of friends. There is Mina the performer, but also Mina the Italian singer of the 1970s, whom Mina summons to the stage every night.
This zombie-comedy short follows a dad and his teenage daughter at their local roller rink's annual Halloween party, but this year's bash abruptly turns to hell on four wheels when the roller skaters mysteriously start to transform into zombies.
Set around a single dining table, a son struggles to reclaim his sense of normalcy as his mother’s delusions tighten their grip. Through quiet tension and buried longing, this intimate psychological drama exposes the fragile warfare of a mother-son relationship trapped between love, denial, and control.
Saúl, a young graffiti artist caught between a broken home and street life, forms an unexpected bond with Botes. As they dive deeper into the world of graffiti, a police arrest forces them to face the consequences. Saúl must choose between repeating the past or building a new future.
Underwater, there's a world of sounds: whale songs, echoes, clicks... This is how many species communicate and how the balance of the marine ecosystem is maintained. But what happens when the noise we humans make starts creeping into that environment?
The film explores the relationship between consent and intimacy in the context of the acting profession. A chamber play starring Lola Fuchs and Mervan Ürkmez in the leading roles, the production is based on PR interviews. The verbal exchange between the two actors is interrupted by physical altercations, with exercises from intimacy coordination becoming choreographies.
On the journey to depict "borders," Because Watching Pacifies captures two KMT military dependents' villages established for surveillance purposes following the Chinese Civil War. In the mountainous region traversed by Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Highway and the highlands that border Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, the villages were established in conflict zones along ethnic frontiers.
A young student undergoing trauma therapy recounts how she was raped by someone she trusted. The camera focuses on the therapist’s face, and we never see the anonymous speaker. The Sessions unfolds almost entirely in this space, where the young woman speaks openly about the impact of the rape. Outside the therapy room she doesn’t dare speak to anyone else about it—only her boyfriend knows what happened.