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War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

On her own for the first time in years, Ashley struggles to move on from her boyfriend. Haunted by obsessive daydreams, she is unable to see the truth in her relationship.

A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life - but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city - its past, its secrets, its ghosts. Gradually he succumbs to obsession.

Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant’s family.

Set in a modern household in Mumbai, we see the story of a late 20s couple, Chitra and Anurag. Anurag is seen looking for Azhar around the city. Azhar is a six-year-old kid trying to find his way home. As the story progresses, we know that Chitra has had trouble conceiving a kid of her own but has this dire need to make her family picture perfect. Anurag, out of his uninhibited love for his wife, decides to fulfill Chitra's wish. He finds Azhar one day and decides to take him home to his wife, who gets ecstatic to see her family portrait finally be complete. Adhuri Tasveer analyses love morality and the concept of a home through these characters.

A former KMT general returns to China and find his mother after years of separation.

Two lonely people notice each other on the train. One desires the other. A yearning so big it might destroy me. Walk up that hill. Desperation.

Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.

Max works in a marketing agency, the days are the same, he can't stand the life he leads. One day, he meets Rose, a young student who will change his fate.

Follows German-American actress Marlene Dietrich across four decisive days in four different decades, portraying her in shifting cultural and political contexts: Paris in 1937, Bergen-Belsen in 1945, Tel Aviv in 1960, and once again Paris in 1983.

A one night stand leads to romantic obsession and murder.

This short animated comedy offers up a pre-Wellywood tale of Hollywood coming down under. In the fictional West Coast town of Whatawhopa, a horror movie film crew has arrived to take advantage of the town's persistent rain. When the forecast fails, the town’s lazy fire fighters — “burning and yearning for a fire”— are finally sparked into action.

Sehnsucht is a German noun translated as “longing”, “yearning”, or “craving”, or in a wider sense a type of “intensely missing”. However, Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. A dead zebra lies on a black and white checkered floor and appears to breathe. Seen from four different angles the decomposition of the zebra is filmed in stop-motion until nothing remains but an empty skin.

Two former lovers reunite years after their breakup, and uncomfortably struggle to acknowledge the complicated feelings between them.

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

A comedy short film.

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Professional strippers teaches a newbie how to do it.

Reminiscences of Yearning is so many ghosts, searching the landscape for traces. there's no sense of the past- it's in the present, searching the footage for what remains, a summoning of the disappeared. We're invited to patiently wait and see if they appear or not. A ritual.. at least.

Against the backdrop of a single Autumn day in a small town where nothing ever changes, THE YEARNING ROUTE sees Mark and Adrian struggle with the beginnings of marriage as they embark on a mini road trip to the town's high school football banquet.

A lonely, heartbroken man, Philip, builds his own radio in an attempt to make contact with his wife, who is lost in space. He won't lose hope, but will he reach her?

Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. He lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather’s fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. What will she draw instead of her past childhood?

As her childhood best friend prepares to depart for the US, a college student navigates her academic pursuits, strained family relationships, and a growing dread of the inevitable goodbye. ‘Sandy’ is a film about grief, memory, and how sometimes life forces you to bend into uncomfortable shapes as you go through it. Entirely self-funded and shot over two years in Davao City and Panabo City, it’s a love letter to the places and people we lose...or that lose us.

Alex and Sam reconnect after a chance encounter. They imagine a fantasy life as a married couple and abandon all their responsibilities to be together. However, reality soon comes knocking.

Getting ready to go their own ways in life, an uncertain boy and his anxious girlfriend have to decide how to navigate their next steps.

Sasha, 20, returns to her family’s sun-soaked home in the south of France with her friends—her first visit since her older sister’s death. What begins as an idyllic summer escape slowly curdles into something far more suffocating.

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.

After Ralph and his girlfriend break up, he gets tempted to use a device that let's him replay their memories over and over.

A mother urges the father of the child she bore out of wedlock to fulfill their son’s yearning for his father.

Matoom, a young Thai boy comes to the gradual understanding on the ephemerality of his family life through his re-collected memories - inspired by 'Bright', the first Thai novel by a female writer to have appeared in English.

A short film about yearning, and wanting to act on a love you know you can't.

The sea witnesses two girls gazing each other with the desire and yearning, inwardly knowing nothing will happen between them.

A girl in a cheongsam stares silently by a bridge overlooking a river.

Jayce, a queer man from the province, travels to Metro Manila to see his dying father for the first time. There, he meets Danny, a half-sister he barely knows. The man who brought them together is already slipping away, leaving behind only a house filled with quiet and unspoken history.

Two people meet and create a connection beyond spacetime.

The dream of an old man to go to the sea depends on Mr. K's opinion.

When a gay young adult recalls journal entries about a relationship with his roommate, the arrival of his best friend may solidify that his roommate will never be the man he desires and that his fantasies are meant to remain as words on a page.

An instructional film on wine drinking.

After a decade of dragging herself through her predictable life, Eloise finds herself chasing hazy traces of a rainy past.

A devastating accident forces aspiring dancer Violet to relearn life in a wheelchair. Through dance and an unexpected bond, she discovers that dreams don't disappear - they transform.