Bockshorn

Rebecca and Otto, a young married couple, navigate through a tense conversation fraught with the weight of their shared grief after the loss of their child. Otto copes by immersing himself in work, seeking solace in the distraction it provides, while Rebecca grapples with the pain more openly, finding it difficult to move forward. Their contrasting coping mechanisms create a divide between them as they confront familial and financial challenges. Faced with growing tensions, Rebecca and Otto must realise the importance of finding new ways to understand and support each other, or run the risk of drifting further apart.

Leon is a newcomer in gigantic Los Angeles, after he just broke up with Eva and left his past on the East Coast behind. This tentacular city happens to be a fertile ground for this young, lost and dreamless guy's neuroses. Director Laurier Fourniau has filmed Leon's downward spiral throughout the city of angels, always working with the tension of where "reality" stops and "fiction" starts.

A young Iranian woman struggles with emotional conflicts while living in a repressive environment.

Mother (Lily), son (Malín) and stepfather, and a poor relation between the latter two. Lily always refused to tell who was Malín's real father. But Malín gradually uncovered the secret. Lily and Ivan were very much in love but never had any opportunity to sleep together. After Ivan was drafted Lily disappeared. She was raped by the son of a communist official and became pregnant. The People's Tribunal decided that the rapist and the raped should marry. To avoid the shame of being an unmarried mother Lily resigned to her fate. But the husband did not even attend the wedding ceremony and feast. After this insult Lily refused to sleep with him. Then he sent her in a concentration camp. She witnessed a prisoner being tortured to death. Later she was confined to a mental hospital. But she made it clear to a young doctor that she would do anything for him if he helped her out. He accepted the deal. But Lily's freedom might not have lasted long if she had posed as the respectable married woman she was. Though the price of concealing it was also heavy. If she took a real job her identity would be disclosed. She could only take poorly paid homework. She had to be glad that any man would accept her. And she could never tell the truth to her son.