Lokalmatador

Afternoon Class

September 2015 •Korean

Drowsiness washes over me during the afternoon class. My head gets heavier as I try to stay awake in an afternoon class.

Transamerica

February 2005 •English

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

If Hell Exists, I will Burn There

January 2008 •Swedish

A girl gets on a tram and bursts out in song. Soon, other passengers join and one by one reveal their innermost secrets. A musical about the boundary between the private and the collective.

Holy Family

August 2019 •Portuguese

A dark comedy about a family of five brothers, a single and unemployed mother, and a grandmother. They live tight in a small apartment in Benfica. Everything gets complicated on the day when the emblematic Sardoal FC mascot escapes and the club is at risk of losing the championship..

Le thé de Tante Apòlline

May 2020 •Portuguese

Lou wakes up hungover with a reminder of the meeting she had arranged with her tea fanatic aunt. Will she be able to be ready in time?

Sandbar

October 2012 •English

In this freewheeling dark comedy, a haunted Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.

Me and You and Everyone We Know

June 2005 •English

Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.

Thumbsucker

September 2005 •English

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.

Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)

August 2010 •English

I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket

January 1933 •English

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.

Mickey's Safety Club: Street Safe, Street Smart

September 1989 •English

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

Automagic

February 2025 •Hindi

On his return home, androgynous-looking Madhu attempts to seduce Ratnakar, his rickshaw driver, who is practicing celibacy in preparation for a religious pilgrimage.

It's the Cat's

June 1926 •English

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.

A Regular Thing

January 1997 •Danish

Love has a price in this quirky sex comedy. Sten is a 30- year-old librarian. Over a book he meets supersexy Katja, the woman of his dreams, and they soon end up in bed together. It's love at first sight, but the next thing he knows, Katja wants money every time they make love. Otherwise their relationship will become trivial, she says. Reluctantly Sten agrees, but then Katja puts up the price.

Octopus

October 2015 •Japanese

Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.

The Magic Glass

June 1914 •English

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

Hezarfen

November 2010 •French

Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.

Two Old Tars

October 1913 •English

Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.

The pencil of magic

September 2015 •Korean

Min-joon, who has failed the civil service exam for 10 years, gets a lucky pencil from his friend, Kyung-joon, saying, "When you do it, you get a perfect score."

Make Peace

June 2015 •Korean

Sun-young and Na-hee, who fought and broke up during college, met two years later to make up.