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In an abstract and symbolic world where gravity is reversed, a unique bond forms between a grandfather and his grandson. As Saba, the grandfather guides the boy through this surreal reality, a violent storm strikes, tearing one of the ropes anchoring their home - and with it, their life together. After suffering a devastating loss of Saba, the boy embarks on an emotional journey in search of closure. Through a stylized and poetic visual language, the film explores life’s fundamental questions: the paths we take, separation from those we love, and the endless effort to find closure, reconcile loss, and move forward.

A story about a girl who wanted to escape her own fear, but accidentally traps herself together with it in a small cabin in the woods. Locked inside four walls, with no way out, she has to deal with hunger, cold and the fear of something that once wanted to hurt her... but now lies dead beside her.

As summer begins in a small town, aimless teenager David devises a plan to sell his friend’s ADHD pills. Their failed venture leads him to a Christian music festival, where he meets Nikola, a girl seeking escape from her family. Intrigued by her contradictions, David begins exploring her world of faith and self-discovery.

A young lifeguard is challenged to a race by Saja, an aging swimmer he tried to save who wants to prove that his glory days are not yet over.

Skander is 11 years old. Taken to the neighborhood pool by his little sister's babysitter, he enters the men's showers for the first time. Skander experiences his first erotic shock; he won't believe it.

This work takes as its central theme the problematic phenomenon of binge-eating livestreams in contemporary internet culture, and represents it through the metaphor of a towering structure rising from the desert—an allegory of exploitative internet corporations. The protagonist, a man suffering from prolonged poverty and unemployment, is portrayed as perpetually hungry, while the bird accompanying him functions as a projection of his inner self. In the early stages of the narrative, the man, though emaciated, devotes himself to nurturing the bird with genuine affection. However, once targeted by a predatory internet company, he begins livestreaming under the guidance of the bird—an embodiment of his subconscious impulses. As his audience grows and revenue increases, his body fails to endure the excessive consumption demanded by the broadcasts. The bird offers him a tube for vomiting, symbolizing both physical survival and psychological degradation. The man continues to vomit and eat in pursuit of profit, gradually losing control and descending into madness under the domination of monetary desire. It even felt like experiencing hallucinations similar to having taken marijuana. Eventually, the bird dies, signifying the extinction of the man’s last remnant of rationality. With rising income came elevated consumption standards and escalating demands from the company, yet he remains convinced of his ability to “earn again.” In the final scene, he sacrifices the bird to open the last door, only to discover an empty room, with the key to escape hanging from the ceiling. The sole being capable of retrieving it—the bird—has already been killed by his own hands. Confronting the bird’s corpse, he realizes that his health, livelihood, and existence itself have all been exploited and exhausted by the corporate machinery. After his disappearance, the corporation remains unchanged, continuing its cycle of deception and exploitation by ensnaring the next greedy victim. Through this narrative, the work critiques the distorted values of contemporary online society, issues a warning against the excessive consumption of one’s own body in the pursuit of desire, and exposes the relentless exploitative structure of internet corporations.