Niskala
Amid the relentless pressure of looming deadlines, Nala (25), an illustrator, finds herself trapped in an art block that leaves her unable to complete her work. When she discovers a paper crane origami and her late mother's childhood sketchbook, she begins retracing the memories that first sparked her love for drawing. Through fragments of the past filled with hope, joy, and pain, Nala realizes that she has spent so much time chasing expectations that she has forgotten why she started creating in the first place. This journey leads her to embrace every experience both painful and beautiful as an essential part of who she has become. With a renewed sense of purpose, Nala picks up her pencil once again, not in pursuit of perfection, but to create honestly and reconnect with herself.
Reflejo
When Inés finds out she has three days to fit into a dress that isn't her size, she makes extreme decisions to make it happen.
body
The film follows an introverted 20-year-old girl, Duna Canet, as she leads a seemingly normal life. Yet, at its roots she is trapped and consumed by an eating disorder that refuses to accept. In as little as a day, the struggle unravels to the point where she hits rock bottom and sets out on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.
Bakmiracle
Latief, a noodle shop employee who is disappointed with his father, hopes to have a father figure like his boss, and miraculously his wish comes true after Latief eats noodles using magic chopsticks that he got from a mysterious grandfather.
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Edan (19) and Dula (18) navigate love, identity, and self-acceptance on a journey about coming into oneself and out to the world. Confronting fear, shame, and societal expectations, the boys rediscover a sense of belonging in their own paradise, in this celebration of queer love, vulnerability, and the power of embracing who you are.
Exposição
During the pandemic, introverted painter Hélio meets aspiring model Theo and begins a report that will make him face his deepest insecurities in a way he never imagined.
Land of Silence and Darkness
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Behind the Window
A young girl is caught between her parents’ grief and anger after losing their eldest daughter, finds solace behind her bedroom window—where she builds a world of color in order to move on.
Palimpseste
A painter in search of perfection confronts the anxiety of the blank canvas. 2026.
Scars
We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even heartwarming. This is an unforgettable journey to be shared with the world.
Impenetrable
Jules has a big goal for her birthday: get laid. But she's got a big obstacle in her way: herself. With an anthropomorphized dilator by her side, Jules learns she may need to open up in more ways than one.
Earmark
Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine checkup with his lifelong audiologist, Mark is presented with a hearing aid and with a choice. Between the torment from his childhood - and his stigma around wearing the hearing aid - he lashes out. But he remembers his young self, loving and loved; along with the care his late mother showed him. Through courage, he is able to connect with her; as she guides him through this tumultuous time in his life. He realises he can either continue to shut himself off from the world, or open up and begin to accept himself for who he really is.
Red Herring
When Kit Vincent, a young filmmaker, receives a terminal diagnosis aged 24, his first instinct is to turn on his camera and document those closest to him.
Morgan
Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?
PUNCH-DRUNK
Mirabelle navigates the pressures of fitting in at her homecoming dance, ultimately discovering the power of self-acceptance.
On Being Almost
After speaking at a literary forum alongside renowned novelist Robert Hausu, Malik dares to send his manuscript, The Anatomy of an Owl. Driven by a longing for recognition, he slips into a gathering of writers and filmmakers at a café, where his ambition slowly collides with reality.
Meets the World
Yukari, a 27-year old fujoshi fangirl who loves the popular yakiniku-themed pretty boy anime "Meat is Mine", ends up meeting Rai, a pretty but enigmatic bar hostess. As they become friends and roommates in Kabukicho, Yukari starts to get concerned about how Rai doesn't take care of herself and keeps talking about death. Yukari wants to make Rai less suicidal by finding her ex-boyfriend, who she suspects Rai still isn't over. At the same time Yukari attempts to date a decent guy, pressured by her mother and thinking that love might be the answer to set her life straight. Nevertheless, she ends up spending a lot of time with Rai's friend Asahi, a cheery and friendly (but married) host club boy. Based on the novel by Hitomi Kanehara.
Thus Spoke the Late
A recently deceased denial-ridden young woman—wanders through a familiar park to confront the man of her past and the manifestation of the doctor who failed her, seeking to fully let go of her worldly self.
The Bird of Paradise
A colorful exploration into a lost girl's journey to self-acceptance as she learns to find her wings.
The Sound of Us Fading
A quiet, introverted teenage boy records small sounds because he seems afraid to forget. When he meets Mara, a mysterious girl that is interested in his strange hobby, he slowly discovers more about Mara and about himself.