ナイン・ソウルズ (2003)

Gambling with Souls

Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

Paju

A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.

Marvelous and the Black Hole

A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.

Battle of Wits

Cina, 370 a.C. Nel pieno del periodo turbolento dei Regni Combattenti, le truppe dell'esercito di Zhao avanzano sul remoto regno fortificato di Liang. La città cinta da mura rappresenta solo una sosta sulla strada per la terra di Yan, che le truppe di Zhao progettano di invadere, ma gli abitanti di Liang non sono disposti ad arrendersi senza combattere. Viene chiamato uno stratega militare seguace di Mo Tsu, e proprio quando le truppe Zhao si stanno preparando all'attacco, Ge Li (Andy Lau) arriva ai bastioni di Liang. Il nuovo arrivato, un discepolo della scuola di pensiero di Mo Tsu, che propugna l'amore universale e propaganda avanzate tecniche di difesa militare, applica prontamente le sue capacità per respingere le forze nemiche. I festeggiamenti a Liang non durano molto, però, e le truppe Zhao si radunano sotto la guida di Xiang Yanzhong, che giura di prendere la città.

Blue Spring

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

Ophelia

The forest, the dunes, the ocean. Thomas and Simon, 12 and 9 years old, pedal fast. They know she comes to sunbathe here everyday, naked, on the beach. Away from the rest of the world.

It's Not About the Nail

A perspective in relationship communication using metaphors and hyperbole to drive the point home.

Silam

Grappling with mistreatment at school and at home, Baskara moves into his uncle's home, where he encounters spirits and uncovers unsettling secrets.

Carnival in Costa Rica

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Paathi: The Half

Paathi is a movie which talks about raising awareness of abortion. Indrans is in the role of a Theyyam face painter and a local medical practitioner Kammaran, who has a deformed face.

Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga

Sakthi tries to sabotage his marriage arranged by his father but gets a huge shock when the girl turns out to be the one he loves.

Muxes

In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” - men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned limbo between the two genders.

The Outsider: Part One

A solitary boy is confronted by a stranger with concealed intentions…

Sad Beauty

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

L'asso di picche

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

Life of a Mutt

Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.

Waves

Ania is an apprentice at a small hairdressing parlour along with her best friend, Kasia. The two teenage girls from dysfunctional families share a common dream of becoming professional hair stylists.

Hommage

A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.

The Healing

Lyuba goes on a retreat with her friends. There he performs rituals and experiences strange visions. She suddenly feels uncomfortable and contemplates escape, but fears that what awaits her outside will be worse than what she faces inside.

Christabel

A new look at the poem, "Christabel" (1816), by the British S. T. Coleridge. The only daughter of a rural worker, Christabel meets Geraldine, a mysterious woman who claims to have been attacked by men and needs help. In her innocence and purity, Christabel welcomes Geraldine into her father's house. From then on, the two protagonists relate in a way that Geraldine has a great influence on Christabel, destabilizing her convictions and promoting rupture of the traditions, but that bring a feeling of passion and freedom never experienced by her. In this adaptation, instead of England, the history takes place in the rural zone, in the middle of the closed Goian; The character Geraldine is a mysterious, free and independent woman who appears to swing the established structure and pre-framed relationships, which weigh on Christabel and her father.