The painterly clouds of a Tuscan sky hover above Maremma’s rolling landscape. On a rock sits a handbag. A white Miu Miu Wander bag. Upon close inspection, though, we see it’s dirty, beaten up, weathered with time. What has this handbag been through? And how did it end up here, alone?
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Vincent, a young Parisian uncomfortable with his appearance, installs a brain chip named Reality+ which allows users to see themselves and fellow users with their dream body. However, Reality+ only works over 12-hour intervals, proving infuriating for Vincent as he falls for Stella, another user.
Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes layered on top of one another—are presented as one collage. Amid this sensory barrage, themes of sexual violence, community, confidence and joy are explored.
In the underworld, demons do not sleep. The moon keeps them awake. Most avoid the harsh moonlight and catch what little rest they can. One demon decides to skate through the underworld to reach the moon. This demon will eat the moon and free itself.
In an Italian town, a young woman attends confession. She reveals to the priest various fantasies involving greed, lust, and temptation. The priest undergoes a crisis of faith after her confession ignites desires he can’t ignore, sharing in her sin through a forbidden act.
Lucrecia—a museum security guard—struggles with inflation in a country descending into economic chaos. One night, she bets her severance pay on a speculative move inspired by an improvised pendulum. Before she knows it, her life spirals into a frenzied combination of sex, money, and temporary jobs.
A small town in Argentina, Trenque Lauquen, invites an Italian fashion house to show its latest collection. After an elaborate welcome ceremony and an initial photo shoot, the fashion house’s model vanishes, and a team of local police and consultants, including a clairvoyant, investigates.
In a diner in the desert, a mole with a hot ass and a fly waitress serve insect and animal patrons who are all going through relationship issues—be it an unhappy marriage, a secret crush, or a workplace fantasy. During today’s lunch service, everyone’s secrets and desires will come to a head.
In a haunting, dream-like world, a young girl navigates a labyrinth of physical and emotional challenges within the decaying walls of an abandoned house. There, she must choose between succumbing to her fears or transforming into a formidable force.
Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present?
Laberint d’Horta, Barcelona. In the park’s garden, at the center of its maze, a statue of Eros waits. Several journeys take place in search of the center. While navigating the maze’s false pathways, structures start to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates.
The nuns living in a convent are happily melted together. When one nun digs a man up from the ground in the garden, she loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?
Fran has returned to his hometown in the Pyrenees, where his mother, sister, and many ghosts from his past live. Fran tries to immerse himself in the world he left to become a dancer, but nothing goes as planned. So he starts dancing, leading him and the whole village to a joyfully chaotic climax.
A woman moves into a new house. As she explores this empty and eerie space, she encounters a mysterious entity—a Black Box. When she peers through its peephole, the woman unlocks access to multiple universes, each viewed from the perspective of a different woman.
Poet, musician, visual artist, and Afrofuturist Moor Mother roams a hallucinatory Mojave Desert alone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Moor Mother visits the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra HQ and plays with jazz luminaries and elders, including Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, Michael Session, and Maia.
