Mélanie Akoka

Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.

Solitary teen ANI (15) is intensely devoted to her glamorous older sister, Casey (18). But when Ani stumbles on Casey’s fake, AI-generated OnlyFans-like account, she’s unsettled to discover Casey has cloned the voice of a real woman for the persona. Ani, however, has her own internet side hustle. As the girls test their boundaries online, they're drawn into the murky morals and strange thrills of hypercontemporary digital life.

Chiara feels that there is something wrong. She has a strange feeling she cannot explain to her mother or sister. During the night, after overhearing a heated argument between her parents and witnessing something shocking, her world is overturned and her safety net crumbles. Reality and dreams start to blur and Chiara’s life will never be the same.

An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.

An immigrant couple caring for their grandchildren receives an unexpected visitor after hours, threatening to throw their lives into complete disarray.

In the rugged, fog-shrouded mountains of Aspromonte, Italy, an archaeologist and his assistants are seeking an ancient treasure. But their digs release mysterious mythological creatures who will change the lives of the inhabitants of this remote village forever.

On the cusp of success/failure, two unhinged female filmmakers decide to break up with their boyfriends, and for once, make a bold decision with their lives.

Desperate to become a father, a man spends a weekend falling for a woman who believes God has warned her never to have children.

Kaylee Hord, a 17-year-old prank video influencer, is the newest member of a popular TikTok content house where she struggles to fit in and pay the rent. But when a new and intense friendship offers the chance of viral fame, Kaylee learns how far she'll go to belong.

In a post-apocalyptic future, a migrant latinx man is on life support from the last plant on Earth. With only memories of his mother to guide him, he must find a way to preserve life on Earth.

Agathe, a young modern woman, arrives at her estranged mother's country house for a weekend stay, only to discover that her mother's new lover is a dangerous predator. The weekend program includes every activity a good aristocrat is expected to master: séances, music, horse riding, and poisoning.

An unruly young mother and her two kids spend a hot summer day illicitly making ends meet on the Atlantic City boardwalk.

August 4, 2020, the port of Beirut explodes. Four years later, Lélia, 17, prepares to leave to study in the United States and has to leave everything behind, her girlfriend, her country, and her family. As an upcoming war looms over their every moment, we spend six days in Beirut with four women caught in the whirlwind of life, between joy and melancholy, traditions and the hope of renewal.

A lonely American faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France.

Another day, another university writing workshop on Zoom. When a frustrated student gets some unwanted feedback from his classmates, he decides to give a little feedback of his own.

A young girl acts out in defiance of her pregant mother

In 1940s southern Italy, a rebellious girl and her strict grandmother live in a war-torn village. When the girl meets a mysterious orphan boy, their secret friendship leads her toward a harrowing discovery in an abandoned minefield.

On a summer night in a residential Seoul neighborhood, a delivery person moves slowly in the dark between rows of closed doors, waiting for a ping to inform them of their next destination.

10-year-old Anna attends an after-school theater class. Anna, who looks particularly shy among confident children, is better off at watching acting than acting. Anna is so into her classmate Ava’s acting now. The delicate gaze captures the dramatic faces of the child’s acting.

Whilst roaming above the local neighborhood, a drone stumbles upon a moment no one was meant to see and a person who hoped no one was watching.