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A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

Joakim, a young, compassionate caregiver working in a dementia Ward, navigates the emotional toll of his work as he learns to accept the limits of his ability to help.

Somewhere in Sweden, a gigantic dumpster breaks free from a heavy chain suspended underneath a big helicopter. The dumpster hits the ground with a formidable crash and the garbage spouts out into the surroundings. Meanwhile, an aging Roma woman wakes up in her house with an extremely strong desire to get her old wall clock back.

Normality is a human state of good intentions, empathy, caring and wanting to do the best for those we love and the world at large.

The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the social tissue, followed by social uprisings. In Chile a new turn is taken, with young women in the lead.

The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

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Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else.

The Argentine crisis of 2001 is about to explode. Felipe, 13, sees how his family environment is cracking due to the economic and political pressures. Misunderstood, he falls in love with Lucía, the neighbor next door and for a moment he stops feeling alone. But when external violence becomes a real danger, Felipe escapes with her, fed up with the lies of his parents, leaving behind his innocence.

During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.

A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.

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An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

A young man who frequents adult websites one night comes across a mysterious pop-up that takes over his computer: «A girl 4km away wants to meet you!». Suddenly, a countdown is triggered, and someone is knocking at the door.

A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.

Cuatro amigas de la adolescencia se reúnen en un restaurante, y en ese encuentro descubren que la vida las ha vuelto muy diferentes y tendrán que quitarse esa falsa etiqueta moral que se ponen para protegerse así mismas de la critica y el desapruebo.

Argentina, 2001. In the midst of the economic crisis, Manuel and his family have to move to his grandmother's house. Caught in a strange war over the occupation of spaces, Manuel finds, in his grandmother, a particular way of resisting.