Arise (2025)

Blues for Herold

A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world into a colorful "bliss." When his younger brother discovers his secret, their relationship is put in jeopardy.

O, Brawling Love!

Two rival acting students are forced to reconcile their differences and play lovers Romeo and Juliet in their final school play, vying for a life-changing prize.

Exotica

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

One Split Second

In 1995 Los Angeles, a conservative radio talk show host's beliefs are shattered when his wife suddenly dies in a gang shooting.

There, With Us

In a mountainous village in Adjara, a large family lives under constant threat of being swept away by a landslide. Each member finds their own way to survive and solve their personal problems.

The S.O.S.S.B.U

3 Cornell students are broke and left with no money, they must come up with a plan to seek their way into wealth. Will they succeed?

A Scout is Kind

On their final camping trip before college, two Boy Scouts test the limits of their friendship by asking honest questions about its nature.

Nightfaces

A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.

Natchathiram Nagargiradhu

Love and politics collide when modern day individuals working as theatre artists in fall in love while making a play about love. They realize that it's the social structure that determines their values and thoughts, and for their love to succeed, they have to go against it.

Old Wounds

Two estranged brothers attempt to reconcile their relationship by going on a hunting trip only for things to go awry.

Caffeinated Killer

A caffeine-addicted student falls prey to betrayal, heartbreak and bullying all in a toxic social media culture that leads him down a path of murderous actions that allow him to renew his sense of purpose in life.

The Prince of Jhansi

A stay-at-home husband struggles with societal judgment as his ambitious wife becomes the primary breadwinner. In a small-town setting, their unconventional roles spark humor, conflict, and self-discovery. As they navigate expectations and personal growth, the story unfolds with warmth, challenging stereotypes and celebrating love and equality.

Agrodolce

Four boys, four different lives, four dreams that are hard to achieve. Set in a town in the Po Valley, this is a story of twenty-year-olds, seen through the eyes of a twenty-year-old.

Ranna Baati

In the bustling, nostalgic lanes of North Kolkata, Sumit Dasgupta, a 40-year-old software engineer, lives a routine-driven life with his teenage daughter, Mohor. Ever since his wife, Supriya, passed away unexpectedly a year ago, Sumit has been struggling to balance his demanding job and single parenthood.

Boyfriend Killer

A Grieving mother suspects that her son's ex-girlfriend may have been involved in his death.

i and i

A short film by Samona Olanipekun. A portrayal of contemporary male identity, which peels back the layers of self. A young man spends a day preparing for his 30th birthday while confronted by a very familar person. Featuring Jonathan Ajayi & Samuel Adewunmi

Topper

Once a top rising comedian, Topper quickly falls from grace and finds himself struggling to get by in the cutthroat comedy scene of LA. His inability to face and accept his childhood has kept him from progressing. After an unexpected visit from a ghost of his past, Topper must return to Detroit to face his past and come to terms with his demons, before his dream and possibly himself dies off.

Mannequin Mother

Whilst visiting her late mother's gravestone, Emma meets Jon - her half-blood brother, whose existence she's never known of till now...

Epílogo

A young man runs to try to get on the bus, he can't catch it so he has to wait for the next one; while he waits a girl accompanies him at the bus stop.

FurtaCor

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bridgeport: The Movie

Every empire needs an emperor. Watch how far Shah is willing to go to claim the crown!

Terminal

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Gourmet Detective: Roux the Day

Henry is hired to authenticate and purchase a long lost and very valuable recipe book. Soon Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured book have dire consequences for all who own it.

Missing: Keti Harayeko Suchana

A gripping tale of two young people from contrasting worlds who are thrust together by a twist of fate. A man from Nepal's Terai plains accidentally abducts a woman from the northern hills, bringing her to his rural village in Janakpur. What begins as a clash of personalities slowly transforms into a journey of shared understanding, bridging deep-seated social and cultural divides.

A King's Fortune

Success and talent are almost devilish obsessions for Damiano, an aspiring writer unable to express himself creatively. After getting kicked out of the house by his father and taken in by his girlfriend Aretha, he embarks on a daring quest to conquer his inspiration, unaware, however, of the lurking perils and of the cost of his epic venture.

An Unusual Exhibition

The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were children. In search of work, he was hired to make grave monuments. Time passed... At one time, visiting a cemetery with friends, he saw with different eyes all his work done over the years...

Deliverance

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

Fanboy

A young man seeking to embrace a perceived legacy unwittingly sparks a notorious chain of events while visiting his father's alma mater.

A Bear Remembers

Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.

O Fim de Arsênio Godard

In 1883, in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Navy rebelled against the country's government (an episode known as the Navy Revolt). Six months of intense fighting caused incalculable material and human losses. Inside one of the Navy ships, a deserter is captured. The commander punishes the French mercenary with the most unlikely of punishments: the torture of silence.

Where thunders were heard

After losing his partner, Pedro decides to empty the house they shared in order to start again, embarking on an inner journey full of memories and pain.

Dertigers: De Kerstfilm

The thirty-somethings planned a Christmas trip to Lapland months ago, but the journey there is not exactly going smoothly. The app group has fallen silent, Bart and Pieter aren't working well together, Lot is getting sucked deeper and deeper into Boas' trendy group of friends, Nora's heavily pregnant belly is about to burst, no one shows up at Saar's farewell party, and Elias and Alex have completely different expectations of the upcoming reunion. Fortunately, in fairytale Lapland, they get the ultimate chance to mend all the cracks. But Christmas always has its own surprises.

FENNEL

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Birthday

Celebrating a birthday, a young boy and his exhausted babysitter wait for his unusually late parents.

A Breakfast Chronicle

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.

Plateau

After the death of his mother, Kareem decides to write a screenplay based on the lives of him and his friends.

Aaron with 2 A's

Aaron With 2 A's is a film about, Aaron, an older man who wants to attain his lifelong dream. The only thing stopping him from succeeding, is getting out of his own way...before destroying everything. It is about how changing our attitude and looking at the world in a different way can move mountains and attain dreams.

Tableau

Struggling to navigate a promising career, a new romance, and her family life, a photography student confronts notions of love and loss during her senior year of college.

Squeeze

When a high school wrestling coach recruits outsider Noah, a student with autism, for his tram, Noah has to confront his overprotective single father and overcome his biggest fear.

Anantaram

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

PAPER PLATES

Four robbers are stranded in a village credit union after immediately botching a would-be series of bank heists in rural midwest America.

Omniscient

Ravi, a progressive schoolteacher in a small village helps fight an epidemic by getting his students inoculated. He incurs the wrath of local witchdoctor in the process.

The Shade

Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father's death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.

The Art In Anguish

Josh Thomas is an artist grieving the loss of his wife, channelling inner turmoil into art. When presented with an opportunity, Josh must decide whether he’s selling art or his emotions.

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Sugar Salt and Love

Three women navigate their way through life and love.