The Voyage

Beauty Raised from the Dead

Lau Mung-mui chances on To Lai-leung and their encounter transcends to a rendezvous in their dreams. They admire each other, but they do not know each other's names and addresses. They keep on thinking of each other and decide to take each other as their future husband and wife. Mui's father wants his son to get married, but he pays no attention to his father's wishes. Mui leaves home to look for Leung. Leung's father forces his daughter to marry her rich and powerful cousin. Leung becomes despondent and dies, following an arranged marriage with her cousin. Mui sought everywhere for Leung for three years, but to no avail. He locates the home of Leung, but the household has moved out. The house is guarded by an old servant. Mui, chasing Leung's spirit, has a brief romance with her. Acknowledging that their union will be hindered by their incompatibility as a mortal and a spirit, Leung reincarnates as a mortal so that their love may be rekindled.

Mellow

Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.

ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.

Cement Shoes

Scarpedicemente is a claustrophobic, dark comedy based on the play written by the two leads, husband and wife team John Vamvas and Olga Montes. Luigi (John Vamvas) is a delusional gangster madly in love with his ditzy gangster moll wife Holly (Olga Montes). The larger-than-life couple are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary at a low rent Las Vegas motel. While deeply in love, Luigi and Holly share an inability to live in the present. Luigi a walking film projector, playing out the favorite gangster movies of his mind. While Holly's exuberant exterior hides a troubled past bubbling to the surface of their relationship. Sparks fly in this tale of two troubled souls mired in their hefty emotional baggage. —Donato Totaro

Elise, or Real Life

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.

Strawberry Days

A love story between a Polish guestworker and a farmer's daughter in the strawberry fields of Sweden.

L♡DK

Aoi Nishimori's parents moved to another city for work, but Aoi didn't want to transfer to a new high school. She stays behind and lives in an apartment by herself. Shūsei Kugayama moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shūsei is a very popular student at their high school. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until Shūsei's room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.

2 Weeks in Lagos

2 Weeks in Lagos is a turbulent and thrilling journey into the lives of Ejikeme and Lola. Their lives collide when Ejikeme, an investment banker, comes home from the United States with Lola's brother Charlie to invest in Nigerian businesses. 2 Weeks in Lagos captures the excitement, vibrancy, and complexity of everyday life in Lagos, a dynamic city where anything is possible in 2 weeks.

Voicemail

Voicemail takes place in the dark and lonely living room of Dean Franklin as he sends a voicemail to the lover of his 20s. He reminisces on the times they spent together and his regrets during a dire time...

Trees Die Standing

An elderly millionaire woman spends her last days longing to see her grandson and his fiancée. Her acquaintances attempt to fulfill her wish, but news arrives that her grandson has died in a plane crash. Knowing that she has never seen her grandson since he was a child, the elderly woman chooses a young mechanic as her heir and introduces a young woman as his fiancée. The elderly woman experiences some improvement in her condition, but during a real accident, she becomes aware of the truth. Meanwhile, her grandson arrives and reveals that he was not on that plane. The elderly woman confesses that she knew the truth all along but still wants the young mechanic and the girl who is now truly his fiancée to remain in her family.

Remember You

Shy Nina is still living with her grandmother in her mid-20s. The lovely grandmother gives her granddaughter a pile of money to finally make something of her life and hook up with a hot guy. That's what she does: she uses the money to make herself really chic. Meanwhile, Steve is crazy about the bombshell Kim, but at a party he falls in love with Nina and Kim is extremely jealous...

Lei mi parla ancora

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.

Eón

Downhill Willie

Willie is a young man who has everything that he wants. He lives on a mountain, goes skiing whenever he wants and has a simple job working for an old man. But when the old man’s business is threatened, Willie signs up for the first Kamikaze run, a downhill skiing race where only the very best and craziest person will win. And Willie is a little bit crazy, only he doesn’t know it or care. In the competition, he meets a young woman named Annie, whom he falls a little bit in love with, but Willie also needs to fend off the schemes of Spider Bolton, a man who will do whatever it takes to win.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Lafangey Parindey

The path of a street fighter and a dancer on skates, who are in love, is paved by friendship, grit and hope.

What About Love

Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.

Erotic Stories

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.

Blues

'Blues' is a portrait. Ernest Angermüller, a talented young mime artist who became a quadriplegic after a car accident, and Roza Misiewicz, a young Polish immigrant who works as a carer in France. 'Blues' is the story of their meeting, their memories and a fragmented picture of their desires and dreams as young adults in the making.

The Phantom Carriage

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.