Sofia, Last Summer (2021)

The Line

On an ordinary day, Yoon-jin(26) finds Ji-hoon(14) crouching down on a stair in the hallway in front of her house.

Mac-boogie

Hyo-seon is diagnosed early menopause, and his son Jinsu calls for a MacBook. One old cow that would be the money in the house.

Pioneers

Two desperate pioneer women escape together across the midwestern desert in 1848.

The Nephew

Burgundy, France, end of 1945. On the day of his 15th birthday, Louis receives a very special gift from his uncle Jules, who decides to take his nephew to his favorite brothel in an attempt to let him explore his new life as a grown-up man. Through the evening’s bittersweet encounters, Louis discovers the adult world in all its complexity and cruelty.

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Double Lines

As one of them is grappling with the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy, two cousins have a heart-to-heart about their family, their lives, and their futures.

Deaf

Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

Boiling Point

During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant's flash façade.

Miyazaki

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Ninety-Five Senses

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.

Examination

A school physician whose son is being bullied at school finds that he must conduct a routine medical examination of one of his son's chief tormentors.

Flikker

A boy finds himself stalked and tormented by a malevolent force who has seemingly bigger plans for him. But is this entity real, or merely in his mind?

Not Today

Handling two homes, three kids and her mother with Alzheimer's; Meryem, a single mother nanny, gets hooked on middle class' discourse of self-help. Going over her priorities, she decides to step up for herself on the worst day possible.

Milo

A grieving old man attempts to recreate his past in the hope of reliving cherished memories.

Summer

A leather-clad biker and a pink-haired escort meet on the streets of downtown Guadalajara.

Birds

Jonas and David are best friends who spend their times watching soccer games on TV despite cheering for opposite teams. In one particular afternoon, as another game progresses, they discuss the girls they want to meet at a party they'll attend later on. However, with a strange tension in the air and some secrecy from one of them it all might change the course of their lives.

Kaleb

A hustler meets a client in a hotel room but he realizes that the young man needs much more than sex.

Lightrapping

Gustave is a photographer who makes pictures of nude male bodies in public spaces in São Paulo. One night, Pedro goes with him, without yet knowing whether he will be part of the project. This vast city will be witness.

Freestyle Swimmer

Young Max discovers that grandfather Gustav cannot swim and decides to teach him. But Gustav thinks that it may be too late for him...

Grenadine

How do three brothers change when their parents inexplicably disappear?

The Room

Mariana must sacrifice her dog Frida after violently beating it for having destroyed her recently deceased son's toys. The pet's death helps Mariana accept and overcome the loss of her son.

The Kiln

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister.

Cristeros and Federals

In 1929, during the Cristiada, Ranulfo, captain of the Cristero army, kept a federal prisoner, whom he tortured and threatened. At another time, Eugenio, captain of the federal army, rebukes and mocks the faith of a group of Cristeros peasants who are weak but not defenseless.

He

A story told in four parts, "He" explores the swell of poetic love and the breathless aftermath of its heartache.

Late Afternoon

Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories and relives different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so that she may fully embrace the present.

Without Transition

The road can be long when allowing yourself to love again. Shy and self-effacing Léo leads a solitary existence, but an encounter with the confident Thom turns his world upside down.

The Projectionist

Clive, an old film projectionist, fears his profession is becoming obsolete. Holding on to the love and magic of film, he desperately tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter, Mary, by forging a new one with his granddaughter.

Achilles

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Balance

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

Boys Beware

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.

O Beautiful

Being gay-bashed and left in a corn field in rural America takes an unusual turn when one of the bashers returns with remorse and a secret.

Last Day of Summer

Àlex and Nico decide to spend their last day together in a river pool far away from their village and say goodbye to the summer they have lived.

Mars

Ethan and Violet are set to travel in different directions yet a common interest undeniably entwines their destinies.

The Sweetening

A lonely and depressed woman falls for an avatar in a virtual reality program and it completely changes her life.

After Her

After finding a mysterious totem in a cave while on a hike with her friend, a wayward teenage girl goes missing.

My Friendship

Bank and Jack grow closer over time, but just as they part ways, Jack shares a secret that leaves a lasting mark.

Bones

Victor turns 21 in a month. Before he turns 21, he has set two goals: to lose his virginity and to weigh less than 50 kilos.

PALOMA

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living alone in a studio apartment. Her daily life passes fleetingly and with little taste, until one night, after a long day of work, she receives an email titled FOR MY FUTURE SELF, which prompts her to change her life.

Family Affair

Sunday. Classic game on the brazilian championship. Rossi’s family organize themselves in front of TV. Eunice, his mother, looks trough the window while Borges, his dad, and Cauã, his older brother, watch the football match. Rossi tries to find his place in the house.

Polaroid

Giuseppe, 33, is still struggling to build his life in a small Italian town where he has to hide his homosexuality. With a Polaroid in hand, he decides to leave for Berlin to find Peter, a summer love he has never forgotten. The shock of a cosmopolitan city is nothing compared to the moment he realizes that the German artist has a "normal" family. For him this represents the possibility of 'losing' himself and meeting Marco, who takes him around all night to arrive at dawn to the conviction that love is the only strength to find one's identity. "Polaroid" is one of five short film segments in an omnibus feature titled "A Quintet".

The Draft

In a far away castle, a doctor has given life to a creature he stitched back together from corpses. However, it doesn’t seem to suffice him…

My Girl

Since the rooster died, Jasper's only surviving hen has been depressed. Forced to come down from his mountain where he lives far from everything, the septuagenarian sets out in search of company for his beloved gallinaceous bird.

Hudson Geese

A goose remembers his last migration.

Sugar Glass Bottle

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.

Dirty

Marco cuts class to spend the afternoon with his boyfriend, Graham. Things do not go as planned.