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Mitra “37 years after her daughter Mitra was executed in Iran and she fled her home country, Haleh leads a successful life as a renowned academic in the Netherlands. Her peaceful existence is shaken by the arrival of a woman she believes may be the traitor responsible for Mitra’s death.”

Mighty Flash Isa uses a tape recorder to record messages to herself and then reads them out. She is hoping for change to come, which isn’t surprising. She lives in a small community in southwest Spain where nothing ever happens. All the young people have left. For those who stay behind, time seems to stand still.

Manifesto A small art academy in fused into a huge university as one out of many institutes. They have to follow all the university´s administrative procedures. But secretly, the students and staff decide to self organize as an independent art school. They create their own courses, programmes and leadership, secretly and without the university´s knowledge.

Madalena The body of a trans woman lies lifeless in a soy plantation and three lives react to her missing and presumed death.

Desert Lights Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert, an invitation to widen our eyes in the twilight, and listen to sounds hidden in darkness.

Looking for Venera Living in a crowded, multi-generational household in a small village in Kosovo, the quiet teenager Venera can rarely find privacy. However, when she befriends the rebellious Dorina, a new, liberating world opens up to her. Slowly, Venera begins to push against her conservative family’s expectations.

Liborio Liborio is a peasant who disappears in a hurricane and returns as a prophet. He says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, curing the sick and teaching by example. People begin to congregate by his side and they move to the mountains to have total freedom and develop his dream of an independent community. Everything changes when the invading US Marines wants to disarm and disband the community. Liborio wants to avoid a confrontation but they know they can't run forever.

Lemongrass Girl According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside-down underneath an open sky. This belief remains prevalent to this day. As clouds begin to gather, Piano, the young production manager on a film set, is tasked to carry out this tradition. As her fellow female co-workers shy away from the duty, Piano is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.

Diamond Fight After stealing the giant diamond Nine Dragon Wall from the Four Seas Group, Kwok Ho decided to wash his hands of the matter after originally wanting to settle his personal grudge. Interpol has been tracking the Four Seas Group for a long time, but due to Leung Sang's status as a barrister, he has been trying to clear Black Snake's name, so there is no valid evidence. Guo Hao steals the Nine Dragon Wall and meets Black Snake's men on the way back. Guo Hao meets Lin Yue by chance and the two of them pretend to be lovers to avoid being traced.

Landscapes of Resistance Landscapes of Resistance traces a journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja (97), the first Partisan woman in Serbia, who was also one of the leaders of the Resistance movement at Auschwitz. We make her story travel through time towards the bodies of the new generation of antifascists, bespeaking that it is always possible to think and practice resistance.