The Standard v.15

Atoms

October 2012 •French

Hugo, 34, an educator at the boarding school, finds is daily life disrupted by Jules, a provocative teenager.

Pendeln

September 2016 •Swedish

A woman talks about meeting an old classmate on the train.

Resurrection Slope

January 2013 •English

In 'Resurrection Slope' A young boy at the brink of adolescence takes a harrowing journey through a mystical dreamworld, confronting his emerging questions of individuality and gender. Through splintered fantasies of his reckless, fading beauty of a mother and cruel, alcoholic father, he performs a holy ritual that will one day form into a defiantly singular adult persona.

You Have To Change

September 2011 •Korean

Eun-mo and Sung-Kyung are friends who go to dance classes together. Eun-mo advises Sung-kyung to be honest about love and life. Sung-kyung decides to end a relationship with Eun-mo.

Saturday Night Butch

June 2015 •English

In the spring of 1969, Carey, a damaged but idealistic young butch from the industrial Midwest, falls for Joni, an older, disillusioned femme, just weeks before the Stonewall Riots.

You Have To Decide

May 2012 •Korean

Jung-gi, who is working as an intern at the Arts and Genius Education Institute, said something to his lab teacher who can't decide anything all day. and was called in by the assistant to be scolded. When he is cooling down on the roof, someone comes up and tells you why the world doesn't go its own way.

Sipping

October 2015 •Spanish

Santiago and Jared , two teenagers of opposite personality spend an afternoon together looking for ways to overcome their differences. After an act that begins as a game their senses will find the space to coincide.

De Geur Van Regen

January 1989 •Dutch

Two brothers have to show out of the ruined house they are still living. The older brother has to go to an institution, but does not want this. He wants to prove himself by catching a pike.

Monstrus Circus

May 2019 •French

The Moment

January 2024 •English

A heartbroken man tries to convince his buddies that he's had a "moment" with a new woman.

F for Freaks

November 2019 •German

An empty, undefined world. Gabriela (70) is seriously ill. By all means she tries to keep alive, to escape from her own death. In her suppressed and rising fear of death she refuses any moral argument. Gabriela becomes an animal.

The Girl Lives In Haeundae

September 2012 •Korean

Family go on a picnic after a long time. But It's not all fun.

The Memory of You

November 2015 •Swedish

Adam is going to dinner with his wife, when he is disrupted by something from his past. 'The Memory of You' is a story about a love that never was, and the promise of what could have been, shot in one single take during a quiet night on a Stockholm side street.

Luciano

November 1965 •Spanish

A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Inspired by a real event that occurred in the forest of Verrières, Paris, on May 27th, 1964.)

Aïssa

March 2014 •French

Aïssa is a Congolese immigrant in France. She says that she is under eighteen but the authorities consider her an adult. To determine if she can be deported, a doctor must give her a physical examination.

Cleo Is Coming Over Tonight

March 2023 •Spanish

Aitana organizes a big Halloween party in her huge apartment in Madrid in the hope that her friend Cleo will come.

Smile

September 2024 •English

Smile is about a woman in her fifties and how she has to navigate day to day sexism, the fall out of sexual assault and how in the end she decides to fight back.

Children of the Moon

May 2013 •English

A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.

Glass

January 2011 •English

A mother who is addicted to meth in New Mexico has a son who is left alone.

Cherry Blossoms in March

May 2024 •English

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life.