In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.
Margarita, 13 years old and an introverted outsider at school, observes the beautiful Ariana on a school trip. All the boys want to be near Ariana, and all the girls want to be like her. Margarita is also fascinated by Ariana and a secret friendship develops between the two very different girls....
Tehran 2022. While Behzad is obsessed with his neighbor’s private life and is trying to force a chance meeting with his ex-girlfriend, his wife Sima is secretly looking for an apartment for her and their teenage daughter Minoo. In the meantime, Minoo starts a flirt with Keyvan at a traffic light...
After another failed attempt to get pregnant, a young couple begins to diverge in their desires. Pandemics, climate change and life’s uncertainties loom large. What does it mean to bring a child into an ever-more-complicated world? The cycles of nature and the seasons remain constant either way.
An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm seek solace from loneliness on a ghost hunt in the mountains. A romantic adventure about unlikely friendship and longing for another life.
Arthur & Diana are siblings. Together with Diana's 2-year-old son, they leave Berlin for Paris for a small, relaxed trip to do the annual safety inspection of their old rusty Renault. But the journey will not be relaxed, the direction not Paris and whether the car will go along is all too...
Two women are being sought - one, in France by an international team whose members are simultaneously entangled in other, no less exciting stories, and the other in Georgia, a fencing coach who leaves her Olympic team but no traces behind, sought by an investigator who is himself searching for his...
A webcam dialogue between Berlin and Isfahan: Faraz Fesharaki documents conversations with his family over 10 years. This debut film blends recordings, text and VHS memories into a warm, melancholy intergenerational portrait. Intimacy is also work.
Anton and his friends strand in the middle of nowhere after their car breaks down. The boys are killing time waiting for the fix up, when an innocent game takes an unexpected turn. Anton is left with a strong sense of unease, searching his soul to find closure.
