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In a mansion in the Costa Brava, a young domestic worker has to serve two rich kids while they enjoy their summer. Amongst cocktails, drugs and dishwashers, she will look for her own way to have fun.

At the end of 1945, a young boy is taken to a brothel by his uncle to become a man. Through the evening's bittersweet encounters, he discovers the adult world in all its cruelty.

To get the promotion of their dreams, a mischievous earth-bound angel must get two ex-best friends to finally admit their love to each other.

Sharing the same dream two young actors embark on a journey filled with desire, determination and disappointment. When reckless Italian Alessandro meets cautious Englishwoman Celeste at a London acting school, they decide to move together to LA in the hope of striking gold in the Hollywood film industry. It tells the story of how dreams crash when faced with ugly reality, and how souls can be consumed by ambition.

11 year old Jamila Abdi waits for her mother to come from the Pentagon on 9/11/2001 so that they can celebrate her birthday.

Magdalena is a small-town theatre actress, playing unrecognizable roles. She travels to a nearby village to take care of her father-in-law, who has suffered a stroke. Due to a swine fever outbreak, the village has been blocked. After a long thought, she decides to save the pig, even though, if caught, she will face a fine that she is unable to pay. On her journey to save the pig, Magdalena finds the empathy of people in unlikely places.

Natig, a 16-year-old teenager, can't accept the shame of his family any longer and joins the military tryouts in an attempt to break away from his life in a small village.

Ariane, a single pregnant woman begins to question her ability and desire to become a good mother when she starts dreaming about monsters who try to harm her unborn child.

Shortly after The Third Solar Term of the Chinese Calendar (the Awakening of Insects), Qizhe returns home to spend his spring break with his mother. After meeting a man who he originally met online, he begins to lose control of his double life- one which is living true to himself, and the other, which is pretending to be the perfect son.

Alex returns home to care for her terminally ill father, a detective fixated on a missing person case. She decides to help her dad, hoping to connect with him in the final months of his life.

An inquisitive girl is convinced her dead father will soon be resurrected; certain he has died to test their love for him. However, when the corpse begins to rot, the girl is forced to reconsider the situation.

A recently released convict finds himself trapped between his urban criminal past and his new life on probation as the only black man in a conservative white Wisconsin farming town.

Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. Shirley has no money, no job and no husband - he left without a trace months ago. Shirley's life now consists of trying to make ends meet by shoplifting and relying on the charity of others. When a young, eager occupational therapist, Tamsin Ranger, comes into their lives, Shirley hopes that it might lift her son's spirits and finally put them on the path to some form of stability. At the same time Shirley receives a phone call one afternoon informing her that Donovan's case is finally going to trial, but the glory is short lived when Shirley discovers that the shooter is one of Donovan's childhood friends. Her reaction to the betrayal is so overwhelming that she chooses not to tell Donovan in fear of further damaging his already unstable emotional state. Determined to make a change in their lives, Shirley actively decides to embrace their new circumstances, hoping that Donovan will follow her example. But his mental state continues to deteriorate and Tamsin is unsuccessful in distracting him from his ever-present disability. Shirley is eventually left without an sign of the family she once had. Set in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, Shirley Adam's story is symptomatic of the relationship between violence and poverty - the destruction of an entire family is related to one single incident that cannot be erased or repaired. Riddled with the socio-political and racial tensions that plague these Cape Flats slums, Shirley Adams is the story of one woman's amazing strength and self sacrifice.

At the age of 19, Kimaya inexplicably develops a life-threatening phobia that she must confront daily, to survive.

George, a young Londoner, decides to get his Polish mother Agnieszka a British passport, but a surreal bureaucratic force pushes him into a much bigger decision.

Nights are long inside Naomi and Ram's room. Tonight, they've invited Marina over and their messy space is under scrutiny.

A film divided into five parts. Each part is named after its story's protagonist- Anna, Jerry, Arthur, Zoe, Anais- is written and directed by a different person, and is set in a different part of the world. The stories are not related to one another except through their thematic link to one of the five senses.

Amid factory closure and a hidden affair with factory supervisor, Hua, a labourer who loves poetry, makes an unexpected choice to defend her spirit freedom.

Calvin and Hanna's relationship comes under threat when their Brazilian holiday resort turns out to be an experimental therapy center.

A scientist trapped inside a laboratory during a zombie outbreak faces his biggest challenge yet when he discovers a lab rat raiding his dwindling food supplies.

The self-contained cosmos of the golf and country club reflects Philippine societal structures. New 'tee-girl' Isabel still needs to learn the rules, but she's already looking for ways to subvert the system.

The blossoming young love between two teenagers is brutally disrupted by retreating Nazi soldiers who occupy their small village in rural Italy.

Unable to tell his family the truth about his sexuality, Rahmi leads a double life.

Rachel and Chloe are done with being innocent 14-year-olds. They head into town on a secret night out, dressed way beyond their years and oozing a sexuality they barely own. There, they find themselves pushed to extremes and the boundaries between innocent play and dangerous seduction start to blur.

A Sci-Fi short film set in a dystopian future fuelled by amphetamines and constant trance music, where the only illegal drug... is silence.