Life in Love: Cinthia & Robyn (2022)

Bodies of Desire

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.

Princess Cyd

High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

Night Express

Alex (26) is an asexual guy who wants to have a romantic relationship with his best friend Eli (25), who is a nymphomaniac. Alex is trying to do everything he can to take his relationship with Eli to the next level and to finally confess his feelings to her. He wants to win Eliz's heart through dates, joint activities, attention and help, but soon finds himself confronted with the fact that he has to try the unwanted route because of Eliz's addiction. The cycles of body and soul, finding a balance between selfishness and selflessness, leaving a toxic relationship, and learning about and accepting oneself are all themes explored in the film.

Thanks to Her

Millie Blake, a high school senior soccer player, has her life turned upside down after an altercation with an out and proud classmate of hers, Andy Wellick. As punishment, the two girls get sentenced to a month of community service at a local nursing home. As she begins to not only bond with two of the residents, Jade and Pepper, but with Andy too, Millie begins to understand more about herself and becomes more confident in who she is.

Ace and Anxious

Emma, an asexual graphic designer with generalized anxiety disorder, learns of the stress-reducing properties of sex, and decides to place an ad on Craigslist for a test sexual partner to determine if it will help with her panic attacks.

Slow

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Dear Luke, Love, Me

Spanning over a decade, soulmates Penny and Luke struggle to maintain their queer-platonic significant-other relationship while dealing with societal pressures to find something "normal."

I Am What I Am

Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she met a man who is just seeking a friend.

Infinite While It Lasts

At a party, Danny and Seiji fall in love. However, Danny believes the differences between them can prove stronger than their feelings.

Straight Up

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.

Queens of the Qing Dynasty

A suicidal teen develops a candid rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages and possessions quickly expands the boundaries of their relationship and alters their inner chemistry.

Première première fois

Two young men, Damien and Tom, are about to have sex before Tom puts an end to the encounter by confessing that he doesn't want to. To comfort him, Damien tells him about his failed first time.

The Artifice Girl

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

A-Okay

Sex. Something that is part of human nature. Everyone does it and strives to have their happily ever after… Right? In a society where intimacy and romance are constantly everywhere, someone breaks from the mould after years of self-discovery. They send a letter to their past self full of their experiences and lessons learned, in the form of a short documentary. A-Okay brings attention to the hyper-sexualized and romanticized society we live in and how it’s expectations, stigmas, and stereotypes can be harmful to individuals on the aromantic and asexual spectrums.

(A)sexual

Facing a sex obsessed culture, a mountain of stereotypes and misconceptions, and a lack of social or scientific research, asexuals - people who experience no sexual attraction - struggle to claim their identity.

Thanks to Her

Perfectionist, soccer star, straight A student Millie Blake did not picture starting her senior year receiving a month of community service at a local nursing home after trying to break up a fight at school. To make matters worse, Millie is stuck at the home with the instigator of the fight: Andy Wellick–another senior, who is outspoken about her identity as a lesbian on the asexual spectrum. Initially the two girls butt heads, but the tension quickly blossoms into friendship as they learn more about each other.

Cat Person

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.

Something in the Dirt

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Aamis

A lonely, married woman bonds with a younger man over their shared love of unusual foods. As their excursions become more adventurous, their relationship begins to take a dark turn.

Confetti

How far would a mother go to reverse her child’s fate? Based on writer/director Ann Hu’s story, that’s the question facing Lan (Zhu Zhu), who travels with her 9-year-old daughter Meimei (Harmonie He) from their small town in China to New York City.

Mystery at Sorbonne University

Victoire, the first female lasw student admitted to the Sorbonne, is accused of murder. Helped by her professor, she's in a race against time to prove her innocence.

#OneSummerDay

The whole life of the recent provincials, and now Muscovite Katie - one continuous selfie with a series of celebrities. Any intrigues for the sake of likes, any exploits in the name of “star instagram” status. But, the number of subscribers is still not enough and for the sake of the cherished goal, she goes to St. Petersburg to take a selfie with a mysterious artist who hides her identity, and thereby blow up the Internet. And at this time at the airport, a respectable stranger asks Katya to hand over the usual envelope to an unknown recipient ...

www.anukudumbam.com

Life of joji, an orphan, takes a turn when he escapes from the orphanage where he was harassed. Will he manage to live his life alone?

It's All About Love

The story revolve around five couples of different generations. Their lives are woven together by coincidences but sometimes through very deliberate choices where the common driving force is the search for love.

Ms J Contemplates Her Choice

Jo Yang, a celebrity radio guest, receives a phone call while on air and sets in motion a series of events that threaten her life and her family. Forced to choose between saving a prostitute or a loan-shark, her choice is confronted by public outcry. This film is loosely inspired by real-life events in Singapore, and explores how it is more choice rather than chance that shapes our lives.

Solos

Enrique is 37 years old, 12 years of living with his wife and two children. Sick with jealousy, he has just separated from his wife once more. Luis, 40 years old, has just finished a passionate relationship with a very hysterical TV journalist that he was madly in love with, and left him for another. One comes from the horror of jealousy and weariness, and the other from a passion that swept him away, and finally left him alone. As Enrique has nowhere to go, Luis invites him to live in his house, temporarily ...

On the Quiet

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.

The Test of Honor

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

HEART-STOPPING TRAIN

"HEART-STOPPING TRAIN" discusses what exists between life and death, between space and time. It is a narrative that twists the viewer beyond, exploring the pain and sadness of human existence.

Impermanence Is Eternity

Short film for Vogue FILM by Huang Shi. In the dimly lit and dreamy scenes, Shu Qi shows a unique romantic poetry in three sets of different styles; Shu Qi, who shuttles between reality, dreams and imagination, exudes mysterious and unpredictable dramatic tension, communicates with oneself, and feels the impermanence of fate: "impermanence is the only eternity."

The Birth of a Soul

Mountain families feud.