Lazy Boy

Manderlay

June 2005 •Danish

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

La silla

August 2006 •Spanish

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.

Under My Window

March 2024 •English

Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window.

How Thick Is Your Carpet?

Invalid date •English

Housewife Ann sits over the dead body of her husband, rolled up in a bloodstained rug with his lifeless feet sticking out. When a mysterious man is called to dispose of the evidence, his no nonsense professionalism will clash with Ann's curiosity and emotional unpredictability.

A Letter to Home

March 2019 •Assamese

Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings , as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

January 1976 •French

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

Coup de Torchon

November 1981 •French

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Business Bag

December 2024 •Arabic

Under Riyadh’s moonlit hustle, Salim’s routine shatters when mischievous aliens whisk his bag away, launching him into an unexpected adventure.

o jardineiro - ou os equinócios de uma memória latente

July 2025 •Portuguese

Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with Julia, his late wife. As he watches the images from the past, his memories blur with the present, and he finds himself torn between reality and the recollections of a love that still blooms in his mind. While searching for answers that never come, Oliver confronts the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of memories that withstand the passage of time.

The Puffy Chair

June 2006 •English

Josh, a struggling musician, wins a vintage recliner in an eBay auction. Since he lives in New York and the chair is in Atlanta, this poses a bit of a problem. He asks his girlfriend, Emily, to accompany him on the trip, and his hippie brother Rhett joins the pair along the way.

The Method

September 2005 •Spanish

Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate personalities: the winner, the aggressive, the insecure, the critic, the indecisive…

Haruhara-san's Recorder

July 2021 •Japanese

Sachi quits her job at a museum, starts working part-time at a café, and moves into an apartment recommended by a regular customer. Although she has started a new life, Sachi is still haunted by the memory of her partner whom she will never see again.

La chaise invisible

February 2025 •French

Session 9

August 2001 •English

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

A Brighter Summer Day

July 1991 •Chinese

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Traces of Grief

October 2024 •German

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

A Quiet Man

February 2021 •French

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Following the Sound

January 2024 •Japanese

Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukiko's face. Meanwhile, Haru has been spending days following Tsuyoshi discretely and checking his expressions.

Offshore

October 2006 •English

American workers rebel when their employer (Marty Bufalini) outsources their jobs to a fledgling call center in India.

Felipe Rey

January 2025 •Spanish

Felipe Rey is over 40 years old and still lives with his mother, Nora. The strange bond between mother and son will be tested as soon as Felipe invites Lucy, a janitor from his work, over for dinner.