For the unique 2x25 project, the festival asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. A short film by Laura Citarella with music by Eiko Ishibashi.

In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers as a hostage. Aware that a cruel death awaits him if his family does not pay his ransom soon, he finds refuge in his passion for storytelling.

In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

Sahoko, an unremarkable high school girl, despises good-looking boys and has sworn off love after experiencing deep emotional pain. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Kouta, a gorgeous pop star. As she gets to know his passion for his fans and his kindness, she realizes that he is different from the boys who have hurt her. Despite her strong resolve, she finds herself falling for him. However, Sahoko learns that Kouta, too, has made a firm decision in his heart to avoid special bond due to his own painful past.

To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t realize that her best friend Rae is falling seriously ill with an uncommon and potentially deadly disease — meningitis B – prompting her to turn the pageant platform into a tool for awareness.

When her long-lost son returns a decade after his abduction, a mother's joy quickly turns to suspicion as he exhibits increasingly strange behavior.

While backpacking in the deep woods, a women’s bereavement support group discovers a teen girl being held captive in a cabin. Now they must band together to save her from her survivalist abductors.

A recently single lingerie designer finally dives into the world of dating apps, and meets a handsome stranger. But soon she finds there was a secret he failed to mention on his profile.

This is the TRUE STORY of how Heather Robinson grew up in a loving family in Illinois and, by the time she was a teen, had long known that she had been adopted as an infant. But in 2000, the then-15-year-old’s world was shattered when she learned that the man she knew as her uncle, John Robinson, was actually a serial killer accused of murdering multiple women in the Kansas City area, including her biological mother. Following her uncle’s arrest, Heather learns the shocking truth about her birth mother’s disappearance.

Emily, a successful art gallery director, spirals into emotional turmoil after an impulsive affair with a mysterious Italian artist, Carlo. As she grapples with empty nest syndrome and a strained marriage, her husband Tom must confront the truth of her betrayal. Carlo’s charm soon reveals a darker, more dangerous side.

Casey Cox is a woman on the run after discovering her best friend Brent has been murdered—and she is being framed for it. Not knowing who to trust, Casey flees, using her intelligence and resourcefulness to stay hidden and the signs of divine guidance to help her in her journey. Meanwhile, Dylan Roberts, a war-weary veteran and private investigator with PTSD, is hired to track her down. As Dylan digs deeper into the case, he begins to suspect that Casey might actually be innocent and that the real story is far more complex—and dangerous—than it first appeared.

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An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit violent, alien creatures – seek revenge against a space industry baron.

After her husband's arrest, Laura's family finds shelter with a friend, but it becomes a trap of abuse. Despite discovering other victims, Laura remains hopeful, documenting everything until she can alert authorities and escape.

A mother imprisons her daughter in their basement to prevent bad choices, unaware she's recreating her own traumatic past. As neighbors notice the girl's absence, suspicion falls on the conflicted mother.

“Cinema devoured me” said Lyudmila Kusakova, one of the first women art directors at “Mosfilm”. In her hands the panoply of items found at municipal dumps mutated into magical film sets which became a part the golden fund of our cinema. in her work she enjoyed the support of her husband and mentor mikhail kartashov. he helped lyudmila to find beauty in everyday articles and be ahead of time with her ideas. but dissimilar world views inevitably told on their marriage. can love withstand the tribulations in the family of two creative people for whom art and cinema became the meaning of life?

Nick Bianco sets out to reunite with the love of his life after serving a year in jail for assault, only to discover that she has a new admirer named Chester... who also happens to be his parole officer.

A young girl Almagul is studying to be a cinematographer and goes to the front line to find her lover on the battlefield.

From horror master Chuck Russell, a cursed Witchboard awakens dark forces, dragging a young couple into a deadly game of possession, deception, and supernatural terror in New Orleans.

A sweet suburban couple is terrorized by a deranged teenager and his friends after they purchase his grandfather's sacred home.

McWalter, a legendary American elite agent, is falsely accused of a series of attacks all around the globe. Determined to clear his name, he goes on the run to solve the mystery, thwart a earthwise conspiracy, and save the world…

A business student, also required to study "Hamlet", finds himself in a Shakespearean situation of his own when he falls for the daughter of his father's ex-mistress.

After a sudden tragedy, Phoebe is forced to grapple with her grief. She attempts to confide in her friends and teachers, but she feels that the only one who truly understands her is her boyfriend, Aster.