The Looking Ceremony

A tennis player struggles with the paranoia of a brief encounter.

Ratita, a girl injured by a landmine, makes the journey to visit her mother. After her journey, she returns to the Arrupe Center, a residence where she lives with other children with disabilities. Apparently, her life has returned back to the previous routine but there is something that has changed from this travel. Her reflection about life, her future and her decision not to stay with her mum. She wants to continue her studies, to break with the established rules and become the Cambodian woman she wants to be in spite of her disability.

What begins as a simple exploration of the olive oil production process transforms into a poetic meditation on belonging, time, and the fragile future of rural traditions. In this documentary, Fany de la Chica returns to her roots in Jaén to capture the lives of olive growers in a small Andalusian village, both a decade ago and today. As the only female filmmaker from her region, she felt a responsibility to reflect on a way of life that is fading under the growing instability of the countryside. Through an immersive rhythm, the simplicity and beauty of the landscapes, and Dorantes' piano music, the film reveals some of Europe's most pressing challenges: climate change, the agricultural crisis, immigration, and depopulation.

Triana is a Latino flamenco-jazz immigrant singer who needs to decide between love and her career as an artist on the last day she performs at Paris Blues.

On Hwa-young's last day of work before moving to New York, she has two disparate encounters with the same local that make her question the decision to leave her family and community behind.