Two-Syllable Name (2023)

Closer Than A Brother

After having an abrupt falling out with his childhood friend and bandmate, William, Ben Aiken must contend with the idea of striking out on his own, making amends with his friend, or giving up on his dreams altogether.

The Miracle Worker

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

Pani's Box

A 10 year old girl escapes the grim reality of her situation by creating a world where all of her hopes and dreams come true.

Reunion 2

"Reunion 2" continues the story of four friends who came from different parts of the world to meet again at their hometown of Plovdiv, 20 years after they left. This time they unite to help a fifth friend who is trying to save one of the last wild beaches at the southwest of the Black Sea from construction. As one of them is an actor, they decide to make a movie about their story and to buy out the beach with the profit. This leads to bunch of comedic and dramatic situations where their friendship and their relationships with their significant others are put on the line.

At All Costs

Achilles is driven by a relentless pursuit of monetary gain, unaware of the profound secrets that lie hidden within his own past. As his journey unfolds, he gradually unravels the tragic truths that have shaped his life, leading to a reckoning with identity, revenge, and the consequences of his choices.

Strasek, der Vampir

Serbia, in the year 1910: Milena Strasek has lived with her 12-year-old son Stefan in a small village since the father abandoned the family shortly after Stefan was born. Many years of uncertainty concerning the man’s whereabouts have taken their toll: Milena Strasek falls seriously ill and dies, leaving her son alone in the empty house. The father appears the following night. He has come to take his son, but Stefan refuses to go with him. It is a fateful encounter, changing Stefan for the rest of his life.

Talk to Me

Farid, who works abroad, locks himself on the last day of his stay in Beirut in his son Rawad's room, to find what he is hiding there. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces.

Small Talk

When an old friend enters her hair salon, a local hairdresser tries to talk to him about his life since their departure while cutting his hair, unaware of his dark secret.

Hands That Bind

A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.

Limit of Wooded Country

In Alaska, two estranged brothers find their fates entwined after a disastrous run-in with a local cop.

The Narrow Road

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an owner of a cleaning company meets a young mother and her daughter. Would their encounter save each other during the recession of Hong Kong's economy?

The Deadly Love

Lukman, a man who recently died tries to find his girlfriend in the afterlife.

La niña tatuada

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Whole

When Angel struggles to maintain appearances during an awkward dinner party, a fabulous stranger makes them question if repressing themself for their mother’s approval is worth it.

Ardaas Karaan

During times of conflict, three elderly men try to instill values in their families.

Special Education

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

THE SON'S BRIGADE

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Vestigis

Isabel and Jaume enter the forest to dig up their deceased son and bring him back to life. They want to spend one day with him, but death can’t be fooled.

That's Harassment

This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, all based on real events.

Elisa

When Elisa confronts Sean about finally building towards the life they both dreamed of, it occurs to Sean that there's no time like the present to make a change. The question is, did he wait too long?

VALUE

Casual encounter or not? When a young man meets an old man, the generation conflict between them leads to unusual events.

Party Animals

Nicole and Matt move into a new flat, but are quickly disturbed by their party going neighbours which causes them to evaluate their relationship when they notice their differences.

Heroic

Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.

Preludios de sol

ADAM IS A CLASSICAL MUSIC STUDENT WHO, AFTER LIVING HIS ENTIRE LIFE UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS FATHER, IS ABOUT TO TAKE HIS FATHER'S TITLE OF THE YOUNGEST CONCERTIST IN HIS COUNTRY. BUT A SPONTANEOUS ILLNESS THREATENS TO LEAVE HIM WITHOUT HEARING AND TOGETHER WITH HIS BEST FRIEND, LUCHO, HE MUST DECIDE BETWEEN HIS HEALTH AND HIS GOAL OF BEATING HIS FATHER. ADAM SHOULD EVALUATE HIS PRIORITIES AND UNDERSTAND THAT HIS MUSIC AND PASSION REACHES BEYOND HIS RIVALRY WITH HIS FATHER.

Where the Wind Blows

In a small village somewhere in the Apennines, taciturn Antimo divides his time between the local church, his tedious work on the farm and his chaste meetings with his girlfriend. His pivotal encounter with the wild loner Lazzaro awakens in the devout young man the desire to reach the very core of a faith far removed from the regular Sunday sermons delivered by a representative of the Church – a powerful institution for which freethinking and devotion to God represent incompatible ideas.

Selfhood

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.

O Espaço Infinito

In a psychiatric clinic, Nina begins a journey into her own unconscious, a quest to find a path to shared reality.

Red Autumn

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

Anantaram

A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.

Salty Air

An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.

4 Kings II

After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.

Portrait of A Rebel

Steven makes the biggest mistake of his life back in 1980 by quitting the Olympic ice hockey team, which went on to win the gold medal. He now has a chance to redeem himself.

Wanted

Marcos, an adult who as a child lost his beloved pet, a black German shepherd dog, with whom he had a special bond. This bond leads him to search for it over time until he believes he has found it in a park with another owner.

For All That Was Lost

For All That Was Lost follows two brothers and their wives separated by war; examining the power of human connection, love and healing.

The Mighty Pawns

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

Bata, Batak Ka Pa

A young boy's innocence is slowly deprived by digital overstimulation and the War on Drugs. Surrounded by a world of vices, his future becomes uncertain when he learns the truth about the people around him.

Whisper of the Heart

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.

Walking

In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

An American Rhapsody

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

Heartstorm

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

Stanley & Iris

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.

Fissures

Three former roommates find themselves facing the changes in their relationships with one another amidst a reunion.

Retalhos

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On the Way to School

One year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak Turkish, the teacher can't speak Kurdish and is forced to become an exile in his own country. On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state, and about his interaction with the Kurdish children who have to learn Turkish. The film witnesses the communication problem emphasizing the loneliness of a teacher in a different community and culture; and the changes brought up by his presence into this different community during one year. The film chronicles one school year, starting from September 2007 until the departure of the teacher for summer holiday in June 2008. During this period, they begin to know and understand each other mutually and slowly.