Hanging Gardens 2022
Janain mualaqa (original title)
1h 57m | Drama | Release date: September 17, 2024 (Mexico)
Storyline:
When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain in an explosive mix of love, war and madness.
Koniec wakacji 1975
1h 26m | Drama, Family, Romance | Release date: March 31, 1975 (Poland)
Storyline:
Fifteen-year-old Jurek is to spend his holidays at home, in Silesia. After returning from school, he does not find her mother or her things. His father tells him a story about his mother’s sudden departure to a sanatorium. The boy does not really believe it. The boy has a bad feeling about his mother. He wants to talk to his father, learn the reasons for his mother’s decision, but his father gives him vague explanations. Jurek goes to Warsaw, to his mother’s sister, and there he finds the bitter truth.
L’immensità 2022
1h 39m | Drama | Release date: September 15, 2022 (Italy)
Storyline:
Rome, 1970s: a world which straddles new neighborhoods being created, TV variety shows still in black & white, societal advances and family models that now seem outdated. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage has reached a point of no return: they no longer love each other, but they can’t seem to leave each other either. Their children are the only thing that keeps them together, the same children that are the syphon for all of Clara’s dreams of freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned twelve; Clara’s mood swings and the growing tensions between her parents play out before her watchful gaze. Adriana is in a state of refusal of her name and her identity, and her dogged pursuit of trying to convince everyone that she is a boy brings the already fragile stability of her family to breaking point. As the children search around them for guidance — be it a voice from above or a song on the TV — everything changes, both inside and outside of themselves.
Violet 2024
22m | Drama, Romance, Short | Release date: October 5, 2024 (Germany)
Storyline:
After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intimacy from 17-year-old Anna, who is supposed to look after him. While his mother, who works for a security company, is on the night shift, Dan and Anna cross set boundaries.
City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)
Storyline:
City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.
#will 2016
28m | Drama, Short | Release date: October 24, 2016 (Sweden)
Storyline:
William is a 15-year old teenager who tries to be himself and fights for what he believes in. This gives him several close friends but also some enemies. To get recognition he uses Social Media a lot but recurrent depressions and delusions seem to result in a self-harm behavior. One weekend he is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but both strange and frightening events start to occur. Someone is also threatening him.
At the school of music, dance and drama Spark, dreamers emerge. Some voice their dreams, others keep them hidden. Follow them through a year of performances, assignments, parties, and concerts.
Soft 2022
1h 27m | Drama | Release date: May 16, 2023 (Canada)
Storyline:
Follows three adolescent friends who become enraptured in the queer nightlife scene over summer break before a missing persons pulls them back into the reality they have chosen to leave behind.