Júlio César Perrud

Fernanda Andrade

Marcelo Caldeira Baptista

Cacilda Rosa

Leonardo Akamine

Heleno has a disease unknown to most of the population. In the course of their suffocating routine, situations arise that defy the usual in society. But is it really Heleno's illness that prevents him from adapting to the world?

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.

Pseudo-documentary style drama about drug addicts. In Kyiv, a dealer named Baroque receives an unknown psychedelic that opens access to another dimension.

In the summer of 2008, Enzo travels to Berlin to work on a creative documentary and find a former lover.

Zura, a son of a rich businessman, steals a car of his father’s friend to amuse his classmates. When informed about it, the school principal discards him from the bike tournament. Nevertheless, Zura’s father manages to persuade her to allow his son to participate and even succeeds in bribing his championship. Zura’s classmates know that he became a champion undeservedly but can’t do anything about it. Only Khatuna, his alleged girlfriend, and Lexo, Zura’s friend, dare to protest against it. Their lack of loyalty enrages Zura and in the rush of the blood he crashes his father’s car. The accident takes Laxo’s life. Zura’s father does his best to save his son from deserved punishment but the first one against his decision is Zura himself.

State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of Icelanders are not excluded from this bacon party and during the course of the film become intertwined with the organizers of the festival to show that bacon diplomacy is not dead.

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening  of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with  them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s practiced widely across Europe.  The number of yoga institutes, ashrams, and Sanskrit institutes in Germany indicates that  younger generations are far from giving up on this trend. Some are so enamored by this  version of Indian culture that they travel thousands of kilometres to meet their spiritual  advisors in tents, attend yoga sessions at 5 in the morning, and, in some cases, even adopt  Indian names and clothes to try and connect more with this Eastern way of living.  But exactly how prevalent is this trend?