The film pieces together the hectic life of the Kurdish-Iranian rapper and producer Giwar Hajabi, who later would become famous with the alias Xatar. He moved to Germany in the late 1980s with his family and to support himself he joined some shady cocaine trafficking circles. When one of the drug deliveries disappears, he tries his big shot to save his neck from the cartel. In prison he finds in music the instrument for his liberation and redemption.

During a summer in Japan, four young men unexpectedly realize that they have in common
the novel ‘N.P’ written by the late and mysterious
Sarao Takase. The
book is a collection of 98 autobiographical short stories written in English during the period Sarao Takase was living in the United States. Some years later, Shoji Toda, who was curious about the novel, started translating the book into Japanese, but he committed suicide and left the translation of the last story unfinished.
It will be precisely this mysterious 98th story, and the alleged curse hidden between the pages of the book, to motivate the protagonist, Kazami, to set off on her journey.

Herra is a beautiful girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes, who is studying Economics at the University of Prague where she meets Nazir, an Afghan boy whom she will fall passionately in love with. This unexpected coup de foudre will lead her to leave Europe and move to in a post-Taliban Kabul, ready to start a new life together with her newly married husband and his family.

After having lost his job and wife, Kenji moves back to Akita, the town in the north of Japan where he was born and there he meets Naoko, an old friend of his who is also back in town for her upcoming wedding. However, their reunion goes upside down when they find an old photo album, which brings back to memory the passionate relationship they had when they were teenagers. Kenji and Naoko cannot resist and very soon surrender to the love that had deeply involved them in the past. Only for five days though, until Naoko’s bridegroom, a soldier currently on mission, will be back for the wedding.

Janik and Samuel, two teenagers, have just finished high school.
They know that they have to make changes
in their lives and they are willing to do so,
but their need takes different shapes for
them due to their different family backgrounds. A journey to Istanbul becomes an opportunity to recover the balance upon which their friendship has always been based.

The story is centered on the complexity of human relationships especially during the troubled transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Anna has lost her memory but she has never forgotten how to cook. Thanks to Roula, she finds a new job and, through the contact with food and the people who eat it, she manages to retrace her past and ultimately recover her lost identity. As the director herself has underlined, cooking (alone or in the company of others) has been one of the activities that has accompanied, and in some cases even saved, people during the Covid-19 pandemic in households throughout the world. It is a simple, daily habit, but meaningful as it is in the protagonist’s life.

In a Jutland village,
Erna cherishes her dream of opening a cold cuts factory. It is the last year of the First World War and her son, who suffers from a mental disorder, is called to arms. To protect and save him from the ferocity of the war, Erna finds a way to stay by his side: she disguises herself as a soldier and enlists.
The Danish director looks at the last stages of a war of attrition from a new, female, perspective.

Pak is a taxi driver, while Hoi is a pensioner who spends most of his days at the park where they accidentally meet. where they accidentally meet. They both have in common their age (they are both in their seventies) and also their secret homosexuality. They both bear on their shoulders the burden and responsibility of their families, whom Hai, a single father, had to look after on his own.
Being in the twilight of their lives, the two protagonists, despite all the difficulties, experience something they cannot do without, that is a true, gentle and unconditional love. ‘Suk Suk’ was presented at the last Berlin Film Festival
and it has won many prizes earning recognitions across the world. It is not the first film Yeung dedicates to the LGBT issue, but it remains the first feature
film in Chinese language dealing
with homosexual love in elderly age.

It is 1997 and the twenty-three-year- old Soledad Rosas leaves Argentina and her conservative family to start a new life in Italy. Soledad moves to a squat house
in Turin where she meets Edoardo Massari, with whom she starts a relationship. Happiness does not last long and in 5 March 1998 the two are arrested and charged with terrorist attacks against the high-speed railway line under construction.
The situation pushes them towards a point of no return. In her debut feature film as a director, Agustina Macri takes inspiration from Martín Caparrós’s novel to tell the troubled story of a young woman who tragically becomes the symbol of Italian anarchy.