Newwave Cinema

Uhm Ha-neul, a rising star director in the independent film scene. For his upcoming new film The boy who couldn't speak, the crew members get frustrated as he ignores everyone and does things in his own way. And to make the matter worse, the starlet joins on his tyranny. The tension explodes when the director demands an additional production date. And the crew members decide to shoot a new film of their own.

While the Cat's Away

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

Iris

Killing Chuck

Two grown men that need to grow up become hired killers.

Softboiled

Having run out of weed, Norville visits his close friend and drug dealer Gary, only to find himself ravelled in an absurd conspiracy that only he can get to the bottom of.

Polstergeist

Aunt Lilli and niece Nina are locked in a furniture store. They want to go on vacation and have to catch the plane. How can they get out in time? The night watchman, who finally finds them, wants to let them out but has to get the key first. He doesn't come back. Nina follows him and meets a strange colleague of the night watchman. It turns out that he is a burglar and has murdered the night watchman. Nina is in great danger and Aunt Lilli helps her to escape. After a fast-paced chase, the burglar stabs himself. Where to put the two bodies?

Reptile

A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal.

You and Me, Before and After

Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share.

Dope Fiend

Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.

dead calm

Coraline has grown tired of her routine and feels stuck in her day-to-day life. For this reason, she decides to find a way to escape it.

Alison

A dysfunctional night with his girlfriend challenges Jay to evaluate whether the rewards of intimacy and commitment are worth the complicated baggage that comes with.

Festival de Viña del Mar 2025: Pedro Ruminot

I'm the Most Racist Person I Know

When a romantic gesture towards a bartender backfires, Lali unexpectedly finds herself offered a pity date by another bartender, Ana. What starts as an awkward encounter turns into a genuine connection as they bond over shared experiences as women of color. As they grow closer, Lali finds herself falling for Ana. But when the conversation takes an unexpected turn, Lali must confront her prejudices towards Ana and... herself.

All American Drawback

The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an exam administered by the Dean. Instead of cheating like he usually does, Charlie has his own way of dealing with the exam.

Go to Blazes

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Paradise Falls

The whole film was created in 48 hours as part of the "48 Hour Film Project - Dubai" competition. With his debut work 'The Bridge of Time' spending seven weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, Karim Mushtak was once hailed as the most promising Arab novelist of his generation. And then he disappeared from the public eye. A group of filmmakers find him in a run down residential compound where he is the last remaining tenant, refusing to move out as he tries to complete perhaps the most difficult of all second novels.

Batman at the Checkpoint

An Israeli car and a Palestinian car are stuck in traffic in front of a barricade at the entrance of Jerusalem, coming from the Dead Sea. Yuval and Mahmoud, both seven years old boys, find its much more fun to pass the time playing with one another. But when Mahmoud's father tries to cut into the other's lane, Yuval's father bumps into his car in an attempt to prevent him, and things start to get complicated. What began as a game becomes an outright battle over a plastic Batman doll.

Socarrat

We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?

Trotín Troteras

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…