Swimming in the Dark

Love Me As You Should

March 2024 •Portuguese

After his mom's death, Nicolas and his father try to overcome their grief, but things fall apart when a secret comes to light prematurely, forcing Nicolas to deal with three different ways of love.

Sixteen

January 2023 •French

Nora and Léo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft accusation bringing into conflict their respective families, their love story will have to face a series of trials and dramas.

If These Walls Could Talk 2

March 2000 •English

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.

Un Día de Verano

June 2023 •Spanish

A young couple lives together in a small apartment in the city of Caracas, Venezuela. As they spend their summer in lockdown, their relationship will become increasingly toxic and more dangerous.

Mon germà

January 2017 •Catalan

Baby Cake

February 2010 •English

A gay couple and a lesbian couple are trying to conceive a baby naturally.

The Swim Team

November 2009 •English

A young woman forms a bond with three elderly shopkeepers when she teaches them how to swim - even though there are no bodies of water to be found.

Reconvexo

June 2018 •Portuguese

Symbiosis

August 2019 •Hungarian

A betrayed wife begins to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

Daughter

June 2019 •Czech

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperilled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.

Songs From the Sky

April 2024 •English

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that reading is a pathway to their freedom.

What Avails the Crown

May 1912 •English

She was the princess, and a human girl. Sincere, simple, with an earnest love for all things everywhere, she hated royal pomp with a hatred that was passion. In her light, bright eyes was the uncopyrighted story of human struggle, of contending human emotions. This, then, was the girl to be sacrificed for a political alliance. The prince selected was a jellyfish personage with enough blue blood to give a girl with as much red blood as the princess the blues.

Un lugar mejor

May 2013 •Spanish

Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.

Red Lodge

January 2013 •English

A man proposes to his boyfriend. The offer of marriage is accepted, and then quickly rejected -- all in the days leading up to Christmas.

Cuantas viejas quieras

February 1990 •English

Rodrigo and Mariano plot a robbery; Rodrigo's station wagon will be the get away car. They dream of their wealth to be. A triangle is established when a whore appears, creating a relation of treason and mistrust amongst them. The prostitute and the drunkard rob Rodrigo and Mariano, leaving them without their dream and everything else.

The Last Moon

February 1990 •English

The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.

Conejo

September 1999 •Spanish

A boy named Rabbit finds some magics marbles in abandoned house. He then discovers a world where anything is possible.

The Last New Year

September 1992 •English

Set on background of personal ceremonies and tradition, this is the story of a twelve year old boy. To him, the passing from one year to another coincides with his passing from childhood into adolescence.

Dog Leash

May 2012 •English

Cracks are starting to burst in Marina's frozen life, leading towards finding refuge in dangerous places.

uNomalanga and the Witch

July 2015 •Zulu

uNomalanga and the Witch, which follows newlywed Nomalanga, who moves into a new neighborhood with her husband and finds herself intrigued by a mysterious widow who everyone suspects killed her late husband