Babygirl
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Challengers
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.
The Piano Teacher
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Fair Play
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Sanctuary
Confined to a claustrophobic hotel room, the heir to a hotel empire and the dominatrix who has primed him for success become locked in a battle of wits and wills as he tries to end his relationship with her.
System
When Neha Rajvansh, a privileged public prosecutor, meets Sarika Rawat, a courtroom stenographer from a humble background, their lives are thrown into upheaval where power defines truth, blurring the system and raising a question of what justice truly means to them.
Half-Light
A couple debates having unprotected car sex late at night.
Shoot
By chance, drama teacher Sigrun witnesses her colleague’s teaching methods causing discomfort for one of the students. Should she let art be art, or protect the student?
Vertical Living
A couple's relationship is tested during a hapless night away in the country.
The Chocolate War
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.
Arena
ARENA is a high-octane quiz show pulsating with an unrelenting rhythm of light and percussion. In the grand finale, two opposite worlds collide: The prestigious Private Saint Papillon French College, a generational winner, and Demirtaş Külhan Vocational High School, a newcomer fighting for existence. While the scores are tied, the conditions are not. The tension peaks with the final question. What is mere academic knowledge for one student is a harsh, lived reality for the other. As the final bell rings, the boards will reveal not just a winner, but the unbridgeable socioeconomic abyss that separates their lives.
The Great Theatre of the World
In this adaptation of the Spanish Golden Age allegory, two artists known as The Auteur and The World challenge six humans to embody culture-transcending archetypes in a show that represents life.
Traces
A woman seeks quiet labor as a way out of institutional power, only to encounter the same hierarchies inside the homes she cleans. Instead of open resistance, she responds through private, invisible acts, leaving behind subtle traces that insist on her presence.
Greatest Performance
During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).
Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea
A domineering landlady uses a bizarre crisis to tighten her grip on an apartment building’s tenants. As paranoia spreads, their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and grotesque, turning the building into a darkly comic pressure cooker of control, discomfort, and escalating absurdity.
Samra's Dollhouse
A heartbroken Tunisian film director finds the perfect male lead for her new romance movie, but during rehearsals the young actor begins to suspect that his role may not be a fictitious one.
Where Did the Adults Go?
Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the family summer home to reminisce and have brunch at their parents’ favorite restaurant. But the siblings have never fully gotten along, and to make matters worse, Cynthia is in a financial rut this year. When she proposes to sell the summer house, Bryce pushes back with full force. The two turn to Miles for the deciding vote, but Miles doesn’t care all that much about the house: he is hung up on the fact that his longtime girlfriend, Gabby, recently left Thus, the weekend unfolds with the siblings’ relationships unravelling into dramatic, conflicted fever dreams of self-identity, broken bonds, and repressed love.
Pizza Margherita
Despite its title, this short film explores the delicate and serious theme of sexual harassment.
The Other Woman
A presentable man tries to break off an affair with a girl who has been damaged not only mentally, but physically.
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
In this Australian premiere production, Dan Spielman and Izabella Yena embody Hannah Moscovitch’s whipsmart #MeToo-era take on the archetypal student–teacher romance.