Hold Me, Softly (2025)

Aetheria

Aetheria is a meditative 4-minute short, bathed in deep purple hues and enveloped in a dreamy atmosphere. The film presents a single tree, reimagined with subtle shifts and changes.

Ilraan's Contemplation On The Crisis of Existence

Ilraan's Contemplation on the Crisis of Existence unfolds in six acts, each set in a different place. Ilraan moves through ruins, forests, abandoned houses, and distant shores not in search of beauty, but meaning. Yet the more he tries to make sense of the world, the less it offers. Each image, each moment, brings only more questions. The silence deepens, not with peace, but with doubt. The world refuses to explain itself it only mirrors his unease. And in that quiet unraveling, Ilraan begins to lose faith in the shape of reality itself.

The Prestige

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Songs of Love from Hawaii

Embark on a mesmerizing musical journey through the multi-faceted history of Korean American immigrants in Hawaiʻi with SONGS OF LOVE, a captivating reverie of song and history.

Dawn's Sunset

After a recent and violent breakup, Jules is in deep mourning with a friend who doesn't seem to understand him and a girl. A story that mixes color, black and white, chronology, and perceptions to offer a profound dive into the feelings of grief.

The Court Jester

Unfolding during a 2004 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, fitness trainer Richard Simmons makes an appearance. Amid the chaos and liveliness of the behind-the-scenes, Richard encounters David, an overlooked and underappreciated segment producer struggling with self-esteem. In a serendipitous twist, Richard sees beyond David's invisibility, offering his unique brand of honest, uplifting kindness.

AfterSex

Bathed in the gentle embrace of a rainstorm, Nathan, stirred by an intimate moment with Alex, finds himself compelled to voice the currents of his inner discontent. Amidst the flickering city lights, their souls diverge—one yearning for a love that transcends the physical, the other finding solace in the realm of corporeal passion. Can they navigate the intricate labyrinth of their desires and break free from this cyclical discord, or are they fated to bring a sorrowful conclusion to their tumultuous relationship?

Don’t Cry, Butterfly

Tam, a diligent wedding venue staffer, discovers her husband’s affair on live TV. Rather than confronting him, she enlists a powerful spell master to win back his love. Tam’s daughter, Ha, pours her frustration into vivid fantasies of a brighter future abroad. Meanwhile, a mysterious House Spirit, visible only to the women, lurks beneath their cracked, leaky ceiling.

Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Space Man

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

Long Live Love!

A story about a party-animal Sati, a man whose attitude has left a broken family at home. Meta, his wife, is preparing to leave him. At age 15, his daughter, Namo is already jaded from a lifetime of broken promises.

Don't Forget About Me

As two teen siblings prepare to leave their childhood home, a forgotten letter brings back someone unexpected — the grown-up, jaded version of their favorite childhood TV character.

Maybe a Love Story

Virgílio’s quiet, predictable life unravels with one message: a breakup from a woman he doesn’t remember. As he searches for her, he’s swept into a journey of memory, longing, and the unexpected chance to find the love of his life.

The Classic

Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.

Present Still Perfect

Toey and Oat have to choose between moral and desire. Their love is meant to be beautiful, but it hurts people around them. How are they going to deal with it?

The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Loney & Havender

To experience snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese woman Trúc Lâm moves to a little town in the Erz Mountains. During a guided tour of a mine, she leaves her group and reaches the other side of the mountain through a secondary shaft. The world there is similar to the one she left – only all the people are different. She meets Duc, who is also from Vietnam and whose parents have an Asian snack bar. And she meets a mysterious spirit who offers to make a deal with her to enable her return to her old world.

Harold's Going Stiff

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker end up on the run from a group of violent vigilantes.

Pedro Páramo

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

Tenderness

This is a story about modern youth, about how young people enters the great beautiful world of complex human relations, how, when faced with different people and phenomena, boys and girls are convinced that good and bright are affirmed in life.

Iraiyin Mozhi Mounama ?

Events revolving around the question of existence of God.

Living It Up

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Best Wishes

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To his surprise, he finds old wedding photos and presumes the addressee, Angie, to be the bride. Determined to complete the delivery, Jasper follows a map to the address. When he finally arrives, his excitement is upended when Angie, now divorced, rebuffs him and the photos. He leaves her with an open invitation to his home, should she change her mind. The next morning, Jasper starts his routine-only to find Angie at his door. After a heart-to-heart on loss and new life, Jasper invites Angie to pick up trash with him. Together, they go.

In Love

A subtle lyrical story about youth, the search for truth, the first painful experiences of love. The film features three heroes who live in Tashkent. Rodin — a kind and whole man — finds it difficult to live with a girl who doesn't love him, and he himself saves her from the need to lie and suffer... Rustam's life is different. He is loving, talented... The third hero Thassos — a Greek by birth — returns to his homeland, where his mother and sister were found, but there flashed a junta of "grey colonels"...

A Lullaby for Yellow Roses

A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other.

Woodpecker

A dreamy autumn picnic goes awry when it receives an unexpected visitor.

A Little Thing Called Love

An introverted young girl falls in love with a popular senior. However, as she begins to come out of her shell, she faces several new problems.

Ovosodo

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Falling in Love Like in Movies

Bagus, a screenwriter, reunites with his high school friend and crush, Hana, who is still grieving from the loss of her husband. He wants to convince her to fall in love once again, just like in the movies.

Schwarz Weiss Bunt

Facing the loss of her youthfulness, Matilda finds herself at a turning point in her life. Refreshing encounters and unexpected longings force her to face rigid self-understandings with new openness. A surprising and empathetic look at the lives of young adults.

Tinā

A woman grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch earthquakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite private school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.

Akame 48 Waterfalls

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

November

Yamaan, bound for Singapore to pursue an accounting degree, meets Ameera, a linguistics teacher en route to a conference. When Ameera's plans falter, Yamaan offers shelter at his uncle's. Their bond grows into romance, but fate pulls them apart after Ameera's departure, leaving Yamaan adrift until finding direction in photography. Relocating to the Maldives, he crosses paths with Ameera again, discovering a changed woman. Determined to unravel the mystery, Yamaan confronts a new chapter in their relationship.

All We Need Is Time

One year after the accident of his elder sister, Ombak, a suicide survivor gets an anxiety attack because he is tortured by remorse and guilt-tripping from his mother.

Only You

A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.

Sunday Special

On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, when meat sale is prohibited nationwide, an 11-year-old girl goes on a quirky adventure in pursuit of a forbidden chicken curry.

What Happened To Our Vision?

Elena has just been diagnosed with MSMDS, a condition which leaves her with permanently blurry eyesight. Although her brother, Noah, attempts to dissuade her from further pursuing her dreams of being a photographer, she stands resilient in her commitment to the art form she loves, and Noah finds that maybe he has something to learn from Elena himself.

Summer '03

16-year-old Jamie Winkle and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed. As her family deals with her grandmother's surprising dying messages, Jamie sets out to make the most of her summer and explores her sexuality.

Dion & Denver

In the late 1960s, an aging Dion DiMucci, struggling to stay relevant in a rapidly changing America, meets an ambitious young John Denver who helps reignite his passion for music and reminds him of their place in the cultural spotlight.

The Day: The Movie

When brothers Sten and Leonardo gain supernatural intelligence through a medical accident, they are confronted with their old nemesis Agent Erik, who plots to destroy the brothers and everything they hold dear.

Four Hearts

The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of mathematics, and a windy, frivolous student Shurochka. Despite the fact that the girls are so different, they are looking, of course, for one thing — love. The events take place in the summer pre-war Moscow and in the country where both sisters go: one in order to prepare for the re-examination, the other — to conduct math classes with the military from the Yuryev Camps located near the dacha village. Funny and difficult situations, intrigues, tears, joy — all this will be experienced by young girls on the way to their happiness.

Loving Someone

Only son, Carlitos, suddenly finds himself the man of an all-female household when his father dies of a heart attack. He falls in love with an offbeat girl and is forced to make a choice between following his heart or risk losing the love of the family which has nurtured him all his life.

Champion

A former arm-wrestling champion raised in the U.S. returns to South Korea for a tournament that could return him to glory, but he finds his life complicated by the appearance of the biological family he never knew.

The First Summer Night

اول ليالي الصيف هو عن شخص يجد نفسه في محطة انتظار في اول ليله له في الصيف . First Nights of Summer is about a guy who finds himself at a bus station on his first night of summer.

The Beach House

Cara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after losing her job in Chicago. There, she reconnects with her mother Lovie, who has been caring for her young, pregnant friend Toy in her charming beach house.

Blue Egg

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space and time.

The First Film

In a small town of 1960's India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.