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Inci’s mother died during the night. The five-year-old wanders alone through the vast hilly landscape by the Black Sea. She meets a young woman in a red sweater and is fascinated by her. Zeynep, who grew up here as well, has returned after many years away. Her luggage is heavy and the journey is long. Together, they walk through the sunshine and the clouds, from one father to another, from dawn until darkness.

Sasha crosses Marseille from her building on the city's heights to the port. On her way, she encounters men's insistent glances. The city is beautiful, lively, sunny, concrete. Sasha's walk is a tangle of glances, strained silences, and city gusts. Arriving at the Mucem pier, she waits for someone who doesn't come.

After bedbugs invaded their apartment, Sarah and Juan finally return to their home. An exterminator has turned everything upside-down to make sure the couple can reclaim a bug-free life as well as their intimacy. Sarah, who is paranoid that the bedbugs might return, decides to leave the apartment after an argument with Juan. Juan, on the other hand, is attempting to save his relationship whilst also getting rid of the nasty insects. When Sarah decides to finally come back it seems like not all bedbugs are gone...

Tristan and Liya, two friends in their 20s, met five years ago on VRChat. In real life, Tristan works part-time at a storage facility with Denis, who's nearing retirement, while Liya is finishing her studies and making hyper-pop music. Both navigate between virtual worlds and everyday life, each finding comfort in their own spaces.

Musical film based on a song by Chloé Delaume. On a weekday evening, Adelaïde drinks alone in her apartment, watching a 1940s black-and-white film and flipping through the glossy pages of a fashion magazine. Increasingly intoxicated, she projects herself into these erotic and imaginary worlds, even if it means going through the looking glass.

Mónica Calle is fighting with her theatre company to remain an actress, a woman, in a society where the place of art is constantly challenged. She draws this strength from Zona J, a district in the periphery of Lisbon, where she has set up her new place of creation, surrounded by former prisoners.

When the filmmaker receives his first video camera at 13 years-old, he begins to film his family during their holidays. Together with his stepmother, bonding over their shared feeling of neglect, he starts plotting the murder of his father. Stumbling upon this material more than a decade later, Zanotta playfully revisits and rehashes this hidden childhood into a found-footage genre tale, proudly showing both the crime they commit and the genesis of his love for cinema.

A monkey dreams of deers in an empty town and the ghost who’s coming to them.

August in the French Alps. Young Elisa has just lost her grandfather. On a whim, she steals his ashes and flees into the mountain with his childhood friend, Malek. He alone remembers the path that leads to little Constantine, where Elisa must bring her grandfather.

Antoine, a young driving instructor, feels self-conscious about his receding hairline. Desperate to keep his hair, he tries multiple treatments, which lead to unwanted side effects.

Emilien, a hypochondriac and piano teacher in a small town in the Vercors region of France, lost his loved one in an accident six months ago, and is experiencing a difficult period of mourning. His well-adjusted daily routine between the cemetery, the pharmacy and the music school is suddenly disrupted by visits from his late beloved.