Passing Lives

Mary IV

March 2020 •English

Mary Howell the Fourth is a chain-smoking promiscuous carpenter, famous in her small town for having recently and tragically dead parents. She's trying to hold it together for her two younger sisters, but grief is playing weird tricks on Mary. Those tricks are the three ghosts that share her name: her grandmother, great- grandmother, and great-great grandmother.

Hoard

May 2024 •English

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.

The Cigarette Bus

October 2015 •Romanian

An anthology film produced by mc² film, consisting of ten short films centered around the smoking of a cigarette after different major events.

Ahmar: Only ashes will remain

Invalid date •Spanish

A broken family by tragedy finds peace thanks to art and destiny.

Carpe Diem

March 2020 •English

A young man waits in a park for the love of his life, but instead draws the attention of a random passerby.

Sophie Jones

April 2021 •English

Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.

Marvelous and the Black Hole

April 2022 •English

A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.

Vamps

August 2012 •English

The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.

Ano Ko ni 1000%

November 1989 •Japanese

Azusa Kawahara is the soccer team manager who is going out with Ikumi, one of the team members. Lately Ikumi has been busy after school and this is making Azusa uncomfortable.

Snowfever

October 2004 •Dutch

A romantic comedy set around a group of Dutch youngsters in Tirol.

Hold

May 2009 •English

HOLD is a tense, spare, and lean drama about a young couple's relationship in the aftermath of a violent home invasion. Boasting no musical score and filmed in claustrophobic closeups, it investigates the frailty of the hero complex by putting a microscope on American paranoia.

Forms of Forgetting

June 2023 •Turkish

Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an equal role.

Dragging the Chain

Invalid date •English

While on the run, a young woman finds herself stranded at a mysterious, isolated petrol station. Haunted by her memories and a sinister stranger, she must confront the dark truths she’s been running from before they consume her completely.

Kasper & Sophie

June 2022 •Swedish

Guilt-ridden teenager Kasper is willing to do anything to make things right again with his girlfriend.

Le Papillon de Fukushima

March 2020 •French

How Many Years, How Many Winters!

October 1966 •Russian

Я скажу это первым

January 2020 •Russian

A young woman in Russia considers whether to get in touch with a crush.

One Step Away

September 2011 •Chinese

The 30-year-old Xiao Ma is the lead guitarist of the "cold avoidance" band. On the stage, he is full of energy, cool and heroic, and invincible; in life, he is a smiling, sunny, and loves the Tiger New good youth. In his spare time, the Xiao Ma is not indulging in the entanglement between flesh and skin, but actively learning various knowledge. In the English tuition class, he fell in love with the beautiful tutor teacher Jiang Ting. Under the circumstances of concealing identity, Xiao Ma and Jiang Ting began to fall in love. However, there is an unspeakable secret in Xiao Ma's heart, that is, his bed wetting, which has also become the biggest obstacle in his love process ...

Relationology

February 2020 •Bulgarian

Young, beautiful woman, with a successful career which goes through many love encounters in a turmoil of lies, flirts, passion. Finally, flirting is getting harder and more complex and she starts asking if real love exists

Annayum Rasoolum

January 2013 •Malayalam

A taxi driver, Rasool and a salesgirl, Anna fall in love with each other. But soon their union is put to question when Anna persuades Rasool to convert to Christianity.