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A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time — but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and the breakfast is always burnt.

Two sisters meet after a few years of being apart, but the past seems to be the only thing that binds them together.

Found Footage. When the salt ran out at a birthday party in 1991.

Two young women are enjoying the wild surroundings of an isolated lake. It's a sunny day.

Midnight Student wants to charm a special lady, but his physique fails to impress her. Eager to improve his situation, he goes to a miracle doctor. A comical mirror to our modern vanities, inspired by ancient Chinese erotic literature.

By drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups in the Ivory Coast, the film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture. These forms, traditionally found in wooden and bronze sculptures, are translated into animation through charcoal drawings and frame-by-frame relief engraving on copper.

At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.

A man working for a U.S. company arrives in a coastal town in Mexico to supervise the construction of the first hotel in the area. He starts feeling uncomfortable as the townspeople express their frustration over the invasion of their beaches, until one night the confrontation reaches a breaking point.

In the volatile moments after a car crash, yet before the authorities arrive, a hot-headed yet desperate tow truck driver fiercely protects his tow. But the situation quickly spirals out of his control.

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist finally admits to the negative impact that possessing the commonest name in the English-speaking world has had on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, the film takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.

They come to buy newspapers and cigarettes, to boast, complain or just chat. As many small and big stories pass through the kiosk window as there are people – funny and bitter ones, but always authentic.

In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has failed to pay, and the sicarios have come to give him an ultimatum.

Daria has written her first manuscript, about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ (blue). The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.

Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end up selling a piece of her body in order to keep a roof over her head.

A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.

In a coastal town, women are not allowed to sing. A teenager joins a singing competition for a chance to move to the city, while hiding his true voice.

Set among unused long takes from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), the film breaks traditional narrative flow as a stand-in wanders the Lincoln Memorial. Lost between monumental pillars, he repeatedly freezes before Lincoln’s statue, trapped in a ritual without progression.

In a sterile laboratory, a woman anxiously awaits her test results with her young daughter by her side. Sensing the tension in the air, the girl watches her mother closely, trying to unravel the secret behind her unease.

Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.

Jerada, a former mining town in Morocco, still relies on informal coal extraction long after the official shutdown in 2001. The film recreates this hidden labor in a staged mine set built with local residents, who appear as themselves.

In the countryside of yesteryear, in the mines and factories, these men of the past seem to share the same sorrows. Something seems to resonate within us today, maybe it's just an illusion, or maybe it's just the humbleness of everyday life.

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.

An outcast girl must fight the bullies and overcome her fears to pursue her ambition to fly to the other side of the mountain.

A young man sits in the car with his girlfriend. An unmarked police car pull up to command a routine identity check, under the dismayed eyes of his girlfriend.

It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early. She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.

In the remote lands of New Zealand's South Island, the desolation of land and spirit forges an unexpected connection between two isolated strangers who, unbeknownst to them, are each other's only path to salvation.

In the Spanish countryside, sixteen-year-old Alma longs to be seen – especially by the great charmer José. Ignored by everyone, she finds unexpected support in a cow who stares intently at her, leading her towards something deeper and darker.

A widowed mother and daughter’s ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveler in need of shelter. His presence awakens an erotic longing in both women.

Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.

A boy shares the science of our solar system with his two year-old sister, as documentary scenes of the night sky collide with social media conspiracies.

Two newly-dead ghosts walk the streets of Athens, among the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. They were outsiders in life: he, a queer Lebanese translator; she a half-Irish photographer. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of life and its aftermath.

A cosmic Dada sing-along, where a twisted utopia unfolds as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.

During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child and sets out to help him.

In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life.

A young woman's long-distance relationship with an older Norwegian man promises to pull both her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba. But her dreams are shaken when she realizes he hasn’t been quite honest with her.