Esquisse (2025)

The Big Chill

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

Una Polera Con Recuerdos

A girl remembers her relationship one last time.

My Wonderful Stranger

Ebba is a lonely 18-year-old who finds a wounded man in the Oslo harbour. When she discovers he has amnesia, she lies and tells him they are lovers.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

Past Lives

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

The Wood

In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

Back Then

Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time.

Dysphonias

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and the silences of a man who is no longer the same.

Liliane in Hell

During her latest elopement, Liliane immerses herself in her family memories. Shattered by regret, loneliness and family pain, she tries to reach Paris, but to no avail. Her faith, inherited then abandoned, comes to her at decisive moments, calling forth the profane despair of a woman rejected and invariably “in hell” for eternity.

Avalon

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

The House by the Sea

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

Porcupine

Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his audience includes real-life participants with anonymous tags like ‘bigballnz’ and ‘romeoazteca’.

Home

Four outsiders of three generations band together in a sweet and funny paean to non-conformism. After her husband's death, elderly Frida comes to know her introverted, friendless adult granddaughter, Lou, from whom she had long been kept apart by Frida's estranged daughter. Frida invites another misfit into her household: 10-year-old Tom, who welcomes the chance to spend time away from both his home and his bullying classmates. Meanwhile, Lou reluctantly gets drawn into a friendship with secondhand bookseller Henrik.

Lurch

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…

One Last Bolero

A visit to a bedridden lover from several decades ago takes Silka on a painful journey through her memory, where she confronts the romantic and political betrayal she thought she had left in the past.

Un Anhelo Constante

It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.

I Saw the TV Glow

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Gone West

It's been one year since Xander was dealt a sudden and tragic loss - the loss of his friend Tobin. Now, he must confront the people from his life he has since pushed away.

TINA

A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...

Quicksand

Cecilia embarks on a challenging new chapter, balancing the roles of both partner and carer for her husband, Albert, who is living with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Crías

After the death of their father, two sisters who have gone their separate ways meet again to settle the inheritance.

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

50mm

Will is a very young boy who inherited his passion for photography from his father. When one day he discovers some photos taken at his house, he will try to figure out what is really hiding behind those shots.

Roma

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

The Long Day Closes

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.

The Beekeeper

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

Papercut

A small nick from the page of her book would take a young girl on a journey through time and space.

Nostalgia of a (Still) Alive Heart

On the wake of tragedy, two siblings must navigate through a three-day odyssey across the desert towards the nearest city.

3 Women

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

Carne Asada en Navidad

Alan hasn’t spent Christmas with his family in years. On a lonely night before the party, he falls asleep watching old family videos. When I wake up, something has changed.

The Dog that Drinks Seawater

The short film tells the story of a woman who was betrayed by the man she loved and lost her unborn child. The depressed woman arrives at a deserted beach, where she becomes a silent witness to the clarification of her life story.

Harry and Tonto

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

Sós

A widow keeps her husband's memory alive through daily, silent gestures, until longing and love lead her to meet him again, in an ending where reality and affection merge.

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.

The Green Ray

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

The Caregiver

A babysitter named Rachel (Mea-Leona Murray) is determined to find the reason for her mute grandmother's (Willow Hale) sudden intense outburst upon meeting Emma (Iliana Kalatzakis), the girl Rachel is assigned to babysit. Emma swears she's never met Rachel's grandmother before in her life.