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As Silence Passes By (Por Donde Pasa El Silencio) (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Sandra Romero Acevedo; Writer: Sandra Romero Acevedo; Stars: Antonio Araque, Javier Araque, Mona Martínez, María Araque, Tamara Casellas, Emmanuel Medina, Nico Montoya)
Antonio has to return to Ecija, a city in the interior of Andalusia, after a long time. It is Easter. There he is reunited with his family and his twin brother Javier who has a physical disability and needs his help.
Drowning Dry (Seses) (Country: Lithuania, Latvia; Year: 2024; Director: Laurynas Bareisa; Writer: Laurynas Bareisa; Stars: Gelmine Glemzaite, Karolis Kasperavicius, Paulius Markevicius, Giedrius Kiela, Agne Kaktaite)
Two familes try to cope with trauma after a weekend getaway turns sour.
Full Review See: Laurynas Bareisa on relationship dynamics in award-winning drama Drowning Dry
Epilogues (Country: Iceland, Belgium, Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon)
An 85-year-old widower mixes his late wife’s ashes into a cup of warm water and drinks it, recalling shared memories from their life together.
Hanami (Country: Portugal, Switzerland, Cape Verde; Year: 2024; Director: Denise Fernandes; Writer: Telmo Churro, Denise Fernandes; Stars: Yuta Nakano, Alice Da Luz, Sanaya Andrade, Nha Nha Rodrigues, Daílma Mendes)
Internal Zero (Country: Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Eugen Jebeleanu)
Cristina, a 30-year-old secretary, is living in hostile Bucharest, trying to understand what it means to be a bills-paying, social-ladder-climbing grown-up, while also desperately yearning to remain the devoted daughter of her single mother.
Meat (Kreas) (Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Dimitris Nakos; Writer: Dimitris Nakos; Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Akyllas Karazisis, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Maria Kallimani, Giorgos Symeonidis)
When a young man commits murder and the only witness is an immigrant whom his father has mentored and cared for, the older man must decide which of them will take the blame.
Travel Essentials (Country: Poland, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Kamila Tarabura)
Ada, a respected Αmerican journalist of Polish descent, is about to go on maternity leave in Hamburg. One day, she receives a mysterious book describing her childhood trauma – signed by an old school friend of hers, Roksana, with whom she lost contact years ago – she embarks on an emotional journey back to her homeland.
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