Pippa and Olly have a dream - to open their own Café. But will Pippa's wealthy family allow her to make it on her own, or will their interfering ways turn the dream into a nightmare?
As graduation nears, scholarship students at a party face a night of terror when the wealthy elite crash in, acting on dark childhood traumas. Trapped, they must survive the chaos and violence until dawn.
Justin, a brash young lawyer takes a job in Aspen as a Deputy D.A. To make ends meet, he moonlights as a bartender, and shares an apartment with the idealistic Mercedes, a social worker who doubles as a ski instructor on weekends. Sparks fly, but when Justin prosecutes Darla, a widow and favorite social work client of Mercedes, they can kiss their budding romance goodbye. Mercedes takes Justin to task over his strict law-and-order approach, while he simply can't abide her bleeding heart, and hijinks ensue. However, when it appears that Darla is the victim of a much larger conspiracy, Justin and Mercedes must put aside their differences to make sure true justice and mercy are meted out. And they just might find out that they are just opposite sides of the same coin.
Pandi, a small-time goon, exists on the periphery of power, of morality, of consequence. A single incident with his boss ruptures the fragile order of his life. Time bends, causality dissolves, and actions no longer arrive with clear reasons or outcomes. As violence unfolds with defiant chaos, Pandi turns inward, interrogating guilt, instinct, and the illusion of choice. In the collapse of meaning, he begins to understand that becoming something more than he was is less about survival and more about reckoning.
Berlin, known for its freedom and inclusiveness of diverse subcultures, is a safe haven for many displaced people. But urban life may not provide the best living conditions. Idealistic traveller Moon struggles to find accommodation in Berlin but receives a helping hand from Anna, who is also a Hong Konger anxious about her unstable life. They temporarily stay at the 15-person co-living facility named Hausprojekt ‘K28’. However, this group of migrants—some have experienced social unrest back home and others just want to experience life in a foreign country—are facing eviction. Two women with very different personalities share what they have and face the hardships of life together. The Berlin-based director uses her perspective as an Asian woman to explore the clash between humanism and gentrification. Featuring Golden Horse nominee Elizabeth TANG and artist Sammi MAK in leading roles, the film deromanticises the situation of Hong Kongers living in a foreign land.
In the remote Turkana region of Kenya, 13-year-old Nawi's aspirations of higher education are shattered when her father plans to marry her off to a stranger to ensure the family a substantial amount of livestock.
1943. Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the refugees across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jérome a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel will find himself embroiled in a dangerous odyssey. One that will awaken in him and his wife, Mercè, old ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War
Akshay finds himself in a hilarious mess when he falls in love with two girls at the same time, without either of them knowing. To make things worse, his strict father is completely against love. Now, Akshay must juggle both sides, hide the truth, and somehow escape the chaos hes created.
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
A rickshaw driver trapped in a farmhouse confronts his past demons while experiencing visions of Lord Krishna, who guides him through a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing.
In Mountains of the Moon, world renowned artist and skier, Chris Benchetler explores the unseen connections between sport, life, music, and the living earth—set to the timeless tunes of the Grateful Dead.
Five friends celebrate the growing media visibility of social media witch Lulu, by mocking age-old divination tools, but the fun leads to one of them disappearing. After experiencing inexplicable events, the rest of the group decides to search for the missing person by following the location information shared in a group chat. The journey takes them to the border between reality and unreality, where the natural becomes disturbed and everyday existence becomes threatening. To find the missing person, they must dare to strip themselves of all superficiality and embark on a journey as flawed and imperfect beings. Will that be enough to survive?
In a sterile room, an experiment unfolds, juxtaposing the intricate life-giving complexity of the soil beneath our feet with the obsessive reliance on technology. This short film delves into the interplay between nature, technology, and human labor, revealing the profound connections and divides that shape our existence.