Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.
An Israeli family's equilibrium gradually disintegrates as a mysterious sound is heard every evening at the door of their apartment.
A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he's lost forever.
As Michael seeks novel ways to halt his spiralling depression, a moment of hope arrives via an unexpected source.
A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.
In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking affirmation reveals that she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she fabricates a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control.
A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.
A young boy in a Mexican border town hustles any way he can to help his family but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes gets 'disappeared'. Based on true stories from La Frontera.
How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.
It is every professional gambler's dream: getting rid of that stupid thing called 'luck' which helps amateurs win nevertheless. But when you have it at gunpoint be sure to pull the trigger - because if you don't you'll learn it the hard way: don't mess with luck!
A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.
The money has gone missing in the mosque of Saint-Etienne. Saoud, the gang leader is suspected.
Boushra, one of the potato-picking girls, returns from a long day of work in the field only to learn that today her childhood will come to an end.
"Halima", a Sudanese henna painter living in Egypt. She goes to one of Giza's local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding and her 7 years old daughter "Ward" accompanies her and starts to wander around and discover the place.
Two parallel but different life paths are shown in this creative animated short that examines the dualities of identity, chance, fate and existence.
