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The Mimicry
This film is an adaptation of a short story of the same name, written by Kao Yi-feng. It tells the story of a green scarab beetle who has transformed into human form. As in the book, he is named "Vitamin." Vitamin surreptitiously enters people's apartments and observes and imitates human behavior. Through Vitamin's perspective as a bystander, the plot leads the audience to explore the unknown stories of various residents. However, Vitamin cannot understand the complex thoughts and desires of humans, and his short encounter with one person is fraught with doubt, conflict, and
despair.
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The Spark
Film director Kabir comes to Varanasi, the most sacred site of Hinduism that has existed since BC, with a camera. Kabir begins to photograph two people: Durga, one of the workers at the crematorium on the banks of the Ganges, and Amman, who has come to Varanasi to await death in order to break the chain of reincarnation.
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The Bitter
After Fang Ke experiences emotional frustration, he indulges in the fast-pace life of debonair. Upon knowing that grandpa is to undergo a third operation, he makes his way back to his hometown. An intertwined story about the enduring relationship between grandma and grandpa, grandpa’s health, a young man’s pursuit, wish-making, and grandpa’s secret. Life is boring and love is flawed, even in the so-called paradise.
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The Irrepressible
The Danish girl Ingrid seems to ignore the fact that World War II literally explodes around her family farm. She is tired of her boring countryside existence, and dreams about traveling far away. Just like her deceased dad did. When Ingrid and her little sister Agnete finds the young German deserter Otto, they decide to keep him hidden. Ingrid sees Otto as a new exiting adventure. A window to the beautiful world.
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The Mirror
In less than 35 minutes, Konkona Sen Sharma tells a sharp story of urban loneliness, desire, voyeurism, and the crude, clashing class divide.
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The After
Manon, a young woman who has just left a cult, faces the everyday uses with apprehension. She feels the gap with the people around her, who don't know how to react to her past. Despite a desire to move forward and the support of those around her, the influence of a cult remains tenacious, hence the possible need for help.
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The Bandemic
Two struggling friends who came up together in Detroit scheme to cash in when the state starts doling out billions in COVID relief funds.
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The Knowing
An artist traumatized by infertility retreats to an isolated cabin and finds a nightmarish creature.
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The Lake
A gigantic and bloodthirsty monster emerges from a lake after its egg is stolen and unleashes its fury on a town’s inhabitants, leaving a trail of destruction and death in its wake. The town of Bueng Kan, now cut off from the outside world, must mobilize its officials and citizens, as well as a group of scientists that are in town conducting research, to catch this predator before it's too late.
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The Spicening
Gray County is a small quiet town where nothing strange ever happens. But when a string of mysterious deaths begin to occur, Detective Jerry Nash as well as some of the residents begin to dig deeper into this mysterious conspiracy.
