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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Accompanied by his friend Miyata, Sano returns to Izu, a seaside resort in Japan where five years before he fell in love with his wife Nagi.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Once upon a time, there was a strange black cat in a long trenchcoat with no friends, no home, and no purpose in life. However, one day, an encounter with a scarecrow sets the black cat off on a mysterious quest to answer a single question: What is the most precious thing in the world?
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.
Adriano owns a high-end architecture studio that is transforming Lisbon’s neglected neighborhoods into luxury living spaces. But when a team-building event goes wrong, he’s forced into an unexpected confrontation with the very community his projects are displacing.
Cronenberg's speculative historical work draws inspiration from the anatomical waxworks at the La Specola museum in Florence, Italy. These wax models, traditionally used for medical demonstrations, are given a new perspective in the film. Cronenberg's work reveals the vibrant and surprising aspects of these female wax corpses, which were previously seen as static and serious. As David Cronenberg explains: “The Specola wax figures were created as a teaching tool, capable of revealing the mysteries of the human body to those who could not access … real cadavers held in universities and hospitals. In their attempt to create whole, partially dissected figures, whose body language and facial expression did not show suffering or agony … the sculptors ended up producing living characters apparently overcome by ecstasy. It was this surprising stylistic choice that captured my imagination: what if it was the dissection itself that induced that tension, that almost religious rapture?”
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.
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.
