THE REDEMPTION (2019)

Yaanaa

The film delves into the aspirations and values of today's youth, who would go to any length to achieve their dreams. As the saying goes, the greatest journey is the one within.

Sarkari. Hi. Pra. Shale Kasaragodu

In Kasargodu, Kerala is a normal school until a big problem comes in its way.

The Scar of Shame

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Please Turn Over

A young, cricketer turned teacher, has to overcome a big challenge in his personal life; and teach a motley bunch of kids what it means to play hard but fair.

Tagaru

Duniya Soori's Tagaru takes us on a bloody ride through the dark underbelly of the underworld and their clash against the police.

ATITHI

ATITHI is a Kannada short film about a caring father whose growing health concerns lead to a terrifying ordeal. Haunted by a mysterious, unseen visitor, he struggles to distinguish between reality and his own fears. As the line between the real and imagined blurs, he fights to maintain his sanity amidst the haunting presence.

Kannad Gothilla

A mysterious tale of non-Kannadiga immigrants going missing in Bengaluru. What happened to them?

Chandashasanudu

The film is a battle between feudalism & Communism. Trouble ensues when Raja, a medical college student, falls in love with his classmate Rani, unaware of a powerful enmity existing between their families based on class differences.

Manduka

A girl suffering from schizophrenia accidentally meets four criminals. Meanwhile in an hide and seek with Police and the criminals lies the mystery.

Emergency Declaration

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Patio

Patio is the story of individuals whose city, no matter how large it may be, feels similar to a small patio for them.

Sweet Thing

For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not much help either. But their friendship with Malik, a boy of Billie’s age, frees them from their shackles. Together they embark on a journey full of intense moments of freedom. The colourful, emotional world of the three young people is depicted in kaleidoscopic black and white imagery, which opens space for their own notions of childhood. Alexandre Rockwell's tale portrays a profound sense of solidarity and deep love: for cinema and Billie Holiday, and also for risk and adventure.

Surkhi Bindi

Rano grew up dreaming of marrying a Prince Charming from Canada, but soon she realises she possesses no quality to attract a groom from there. She is a brilliant make-up artist and hopes that this talent would somehow get her an NRI groom. Alas, her world falls apart when she is forced to marry Sukha, who she dislikes.Fate soon leaves the young couple homeless, and they start life anew, and start a beauty salon within the one room which they have rented. Soon their world turns around, and Rano starts planning on moving to Canada. In order to earn the cash needed she enters a Beauty Contest to fulfil her dreams. SURKHI BINDI is the story of a young couple with separate dreams and how they arrive at their destinations together.

Dante: Beware of the Shark!

When Dante's parents go on vacation, Dante and his buddy Tvärsan get the chance to play detectives.

Gotro

An elderly woman strikes a unique bond with the ex-convict who is entrusted with taking care of her, in this heartwarming story of love, faith and redemption, with a message of strong communal harmony.

One-Off Incident

Teenage girls take their shirts off at their own party but get an audience. Emmi says no but does it really mean no? Sonja is tired of her body being a problem to others. Why has nearly every woman such experiences? One-Off Incident short films are part of a film sensation made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, researchers and social activists collectively. The films reveal the hidden way power is exercised on women in both private life and in society. The films are fiction but the stories come from the writers’ own real-life observations.

Force of Habit

Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

French Touch: Girls on Fire

Nothing can stop these girls from getting what they want in life, but if you try to touch, you might get burnt. An anthology of short films with women blazing in the lead.

A Glimpse

A blossoming relationship unfolds when two strangers have a chance encounter in a London cafe.

A Harp in Hock

A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.

Cynthia

A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid.

Male Shorts: International V3

This popular international series continues with this third volume of five short films focusing on men, including: Vanilla [Baunilha] (2017); Lightrapping (2016); Polaroid (2014); Five Minutes a Day [Cinco Minutos Por Dia] (2018); My Brother [Mio fratello] (2015).

A Fallen Fruit

Thy, the young son of a cricket farmer, mourns his mother’s passing and faces the arrival of his father’s new bride and her daughter. The film is a portrait of a day in Thy’s world of silent grief and hopeful dreams painted over a canvas of rural Cambodia.

Three Summers

During a period of political upheaval, three friends, later to be joined by the fourth, Pimpi, a Peronist youth activist, rent a place in Mar de Ajó for three summers to set up a disco.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

The Silent Mountain

A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his Italian girlfriend and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain.

Home at Seven

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Once a Sinner

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...

The First Legion

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

Dying Young

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Waking Life

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Harlem Nights

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

The American President

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.