The Strange (2020)

Flora

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.

Gentleman Spa

Hao, a chubby gay man, works as a janitor at a gay spa. For him, romantic relationships are an unreachable dream. One day, an attractive customer, Kai, walks into the place, and Hao has the opportunity to massage him.

Guardian

Manuel is a gay Latino teen who lacks guidance and support. Even though his mother, Anna deeply cares for him, she is only able to prove and instill her love through video tapes made from afar. Keeping his sexuality and boyfriend a secret from his homophobic father, Manuel must decide the life he wants to live or end.

Transamerica

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Wild Things

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

Memoirs of a Geeza

A top lad recollects fights, friends and painting his toenails with his dad.

He Won't Belong

In the midst of a storm, on a desolate strip of California's lost coast, two strangers begin to uncover each other's past.

Live Flesh

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Mystic River

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Summer Storm

Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorological.

Yellow cat with blue eyes

A gray world filled with black animals, gray everyday life, and damp weather, where suddenly a yellow cat with blue eyes climbs out of its shabby cathouse.

Paul's Dream

Early one morning, an aging man recalls a disturbing dream to his wife, disrupting their seemingly peaceful home.

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.

The Colour Blue

Reece tries to find the courage to come out to his family and friends.

She-Pack

Anarchy emerges at a public pool birthday party when a group of small girls push the limits of their strength and power. Underdog Ronja challenges the girls' alpha female to battle for dominance. The game escalates quickly, and as the thirst for power grows, Ronja and the other girls lose control.

Her

To escape a marriage arranged by her extremely religious father, a young girl seizes the chance to run away and save more than herself.

Someone

At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.

Is Now a Good Time?

A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art.

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Don't Be Cruel

Ninni and his father Amelio wish to redeem their modest lifestyle. An opportunity will arise when the father, who works as an Elvis lookalike, is called to perform in a rich seaside resort. On that night, however, Ninni will be forced to come to terms with the harsh reality of the real world.

Human Flowers

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Harvey's Dream

An older man with Alzheimer's disease tells his wife of a nightmare he had. She begins to fear that the events of his dream might actually have occurred. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

Harvey's Dream

An unsettling dream disrupts the morning of a young couple. Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

Sheephead

Follows a beach-town fixture who is devastated after receiving some unexpected news.

Escape

A short film about a deaf girl who runs away from home. The story is told entirely without dialogue and features an experimental soundtrack used to provide an impression as to the sounds the girl would feel by way of vibrations.

Huir

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One Afternoon

A strict father and his two boys share a calm life in a creaky old home. One summer moment changes everything for the brothers.

Plastics

On her way to a job interview for a plastic pollution non-profit, a woman's inner monologue laments society's failure to be more environmentally responsible until an unexpected event changes everything and forces her to get quiet with her own conscience.

Ba'adana

Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...

My Pistachio

Too shy to confess, Muyeong joins Hanbit’s play. But when Hanbit barely notices him, Muyeong wonders if love is even possible.

Days Before the Death of Nicky

Behind the wheel of her little car, Nicky seems to be on a mission. Roads pass by but the ideas in her head remain unfathomable. A meal, the discovery of a rifle, chance encounters: the mystery remains unsolved.

...za imya Moe

1947. The first hungry years after the war: fragments of lost death notices still arrive, the Doctors' Case is fabricated, the fight against rootless cosmopolitanism and a new wave of persecution of the clergy are gaining momentum - in one of the remote villages, a little five-year-old girl is being bullied, called a fascist, because her mother returned from a concentration camp with a child, which means she had him with a German. Avdotya, a mother of many children, tries to take care of the girl, but she herself has seven children to feed. Only when the village priest, Father Alexander, appears in the path of the persecuted child does a new story begin - a story of taming and love.

Beaks

In northern France, where cockfighting is still allowed, Anaïs, 18, finds herself facing a mountain of debt following the death of her father, a former cockfighting breeder.

Shé (Snake)

Fei is the top violinist of an elite London youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place in the orchestra, Fei’s anxieties and internalised racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.

This Light Rains

On the morning a soldier leaves for war, he must bring his family together or risk losing them forever.

Impronta

Impronta is a service that allows the user to revisit three minutes of their past for a maximum of three times. Alicia uses it to relive the last phone call she had with her daughter, before she completely disappeared, in order to try to understand what happened.

Relic

Minas, a blind 10-year-old boy with a hidden gift, struggles to find acceptance in his village. Rejected by his father and surrounded by suspicion, his only comfort is his grandmother's love. As tensions in the village escalate, Minas is taken in by the village priest. But as mistrust deepens, Minas becomes a mirror to the village's deeper inner blindness.

Why do people lie?

Javi and his mother are in front of the hospital with a suitcase for staying there for a few days. She’s just suffered a mild schizophrenia episode, but she feels good and she doesn’t want to go in. Javi wants her to enter the hospital voluntarily. Two people with a common enemy, but with opposing goals. Who will win?