Alpha bêta (2024)

mid90s

In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

The Art of Self-Defense

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.

Butterfly Kisses

A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.

Wallflower

A man planning to commit a mass shooting at a rave is befriended by an eccentric group of partiers and finds himself conflicted about his intentions. Based on the real-life 2006 Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle.

Two Birds in a Cage

When the pressure of a homophobic town and family weighs too heavily on the shoulders of a young gay man, he must confide in his best friend and true love.

Dancers

»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something he has done that is not so easy to forgive. Confronting an unknown darkness in Lasse, and in herself, Annika is forced to recognize the high cost of saying yes to love.

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.

One Punch

Matteo is pressured into the family business when he fails his exams. Out for his 18th birthday, he struggles to choose between his family responsibilities and his adolescent friendships, culminating in an act of violence.

A Male

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his sensitivity, his fragility and moves towards other forms of masculinity. At his 16 years of age, Carlos explores his sexual identity, discovers his fears, his desires, and all the things that real men never show.

Trocando de Pele

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Waves

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

Killer Friends

On an unassuming day, Sam's friends come over unexpectedly. Are they there to Hang, or something for more nefarious?

Reflections in the Dust

“I don’t believe in love because I’ve never seen it,” responds a young woman to an unseen interviewer in the first few minutes of the movie. This bleak portrait of loneliness and social exclusion is set on the edge of a desolate swamp where an aging clown and his daughter are struggling to survive. The location could be the end of the world, a place where hope has vanished along with a belief in the afterlife and the existence of God. The two unfortunates live together without the likelihood of change, as fear, aggression, and anger take hold of them – but they also experience sudden moments of tenderness.

Papaw Land

A troubled teenager spends the summer with his grandfather in the Ozarks, where he’s free from his mother, but not her painful past.

The Beast

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

The Iron Claw

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Same Old West

In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.

The Substance

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

The Line

Tom, a passionate ‘brother’ of his fraternity, is charmed by the promises of high social status and alumni connections that open doors. But as Annabelle, a classmate outside his social circle, enters his life, his devotion begins to falter. Once the scheduled hazing of new fraternity members comes to a disturbing head, Tom faces the decision of a lifetime.

Petrol

An idealistic film student is drawn into a shadowy and intoxicating world when she befriends an enigmatic performance artist.

Incel

Sam is a reclusive young man who finds solace with those who share the same self-described title as him: Incel. When his countless real-life efforts at love fail, Sam turns to this anonymous community of the “involuntarily celibate” for help, but instead finds himself increasingly pushed towards extremism.

Balloon

In the brutal battlefield of junior high, Sam has always tried to stay below radar — but all that changes when he discovers he has super powers.

The Power of the Dog

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

The Royal Hotel

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

The Kids Turned Out Fine

This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation.

Rosetta

An extroverted, cheerful, dreamer, Rosetta was raised in the “Traveling Circus of Pitibiribas”. From a very young age, she dreamed of following her parents' profession and become a circus clown, but when offered the opportunity to perform in public for the first time, she gets nervous and gets her number wrong. Consumed with the feeling of failure, she runs away before she could fulfill her dream

Middle of Somewhere

After a family tragedy, a man attempts to guide his son into manhood through a series of hunting trips at the request of his overbearing and traditional father.

Pure Scum

After a drug-fueled car crash, ex-private schoolboys Ayden and Jesse escape into the Melbourne CBD and are plunged into a night of unbridled debauchery and rapidly escalating violence.

Behind the Scenes: I've Been Here Alone

Hasan (33), who works as a sales manager in a construction company, and his wife Farida (30) have not been able to have children for a long time. After a doctor's examination, Hasan learns that he is infertile. But Hasan, who is afraid of harming his masculinity, hides this information from his wife. At the insistence of Hasan's mother, who thinks that the problem is in Sevda, they go to a midwife who lives in a village for treatment.

Soft

A teenager struggles with his identity after an unresolved family relationship.

TOGA SA METRO

A tailor named Ricardo, a classic Filipino film enthusiast, embraces these toxic masculine ideas, cultures, and behaviors from the films he watches. His wife Linda and their worker Jun will soon face the consequences of these behaviors.

One For My Baby

A romance is played in reverse, revealed through memories brought on by improvisational music.

Pitch Black

Pitch Black takes us inside the claustrophobic worlds of three young men immersed in the online black-pill subculture, as they struggle to reckon with their actions.

Butterfly

A short experimental film, exploring the concept that one small change can have a profound impact on a person's life.

Reputation

A drug dealer begins to question his life choices when his violent partner-in-crime is released from prison.

Il Complottista

Mirko, a no-vax, flat earther, right-wing young man lives alone in the suburb of Milan, Italy. He will experience the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the lockdown will force him to change his view on reality and on his own political beliefs.

Ruído

Pedro is a young man who begins to be tormented by a mysterious noise coming from the wall of his house, and he is the only one who can hear it. As the days go by, Pedro tries to find out where this sound is coming from in order to put an end to it and discovers that the noise is not actually coming from the wall.

Lost Time

Anto travels to the depth of his most beloved memories with Julián. He must cross the threshold of the loss of a loved one.

Return

Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights. Now it will be the silence that will guide his steps to find out what is on that altar.

Blackpill

An investigator researches incels and the reasons behind their misogynistic attitudes on the Internet.

Scenārija terapija

Aspiring screenwriter Annie confronts her fears, doubts, and creative blocks, which stand in the way of her goal. It’s a compelling story for anyone who has faced anxiety and struggles with themselves, especially those in creative professions who balance inspiration and burnout on a daily basis.

A New Goodbye

Helen lives with her son Bruno, but Bruno doesn't behave like a normal kid. She will have to overcome the mourning crisis to withstand reality.

Putrefaction

A young girl learns the hardship of overworking and burnout

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Jasmine That Blooms in Autumn

Love blossoms secretly between two old women at an elderly care home while the specter of patriarchy looms large overhead.

Ground Control

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live-action footage and animated scenes. A stream of (un)conscious stereotypes.

Keep Off the Grass

A short drama that centers around Sunny Cooper, an 18 year-old amateur football player who's struggling to come to terms with his sexuality.

Makassar Is a City for Football Fans

In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.

ViewFinder

A student film in which an emotionally troubled teenager meets a spiritual being named Corinthians, and is shown the existence of love. The trouble is, he won't hear Corinthians' words.

Elsewhere

Two women meet, wander and experience together a city that unveils different places and a connection beyond them.