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On a sweltering summer night, Michelle is hunted by a relentless mosquito. Can he survive the night… or lose his mind first?

For studying, a Korean student who has a hole like a coin bank, starts to be put a lot of knowledge in the head, inflates like a balloon - pops and becomes a goldfish which has empty head.

To regain her strength, a woman tries to replicate a dish her ex used to make.

Once an essential dish on Korean dining tables – dongtae, or frozen pollock. However, Korean dongtae no longer exists today. Korean youth, with their lost hopes and dreams stacking layer upon layer… until they are finally reduced to a single frozen pollock. Observing the situation like dongtae. Observing ourselves as dongtae.

Just as Léa, a spa receptionist, is about to finish work and meet up with her friends, two elderly clients arrive, forcing her to stay late: Irène and her husband Daniel, who pushes his wife's wheelchair. What first seems like an inconvenience gradually becomes an unexpected opportunity to discover the beauty of the world.

Inside a large gym in Madrid, Fit observes the habits and behaviours that naturally emerge among the people who go there every day. With no actors or staged situations, the film follows bodies, gestures, and routines repeated among mirrors, machines, and artificial landscapes.

When I didn't know what to do, when I didn't know how to shake off my blues, I just walked and walked. At the end of each step I took, hoping to escape my suffering, I faced blue lights. It felt like a warm blue light, different from the lights that had tormented me before.

Ella works at the lost property office of a train station. Every day, she collects abandoned belongings and stores them in a cubicle. At first glance, they seem like a random assortment of odds and ends: books, wallets, and other forgotten items. But what no one knows is that Ella is creating something extraordinary from these lost objects. In a world driven by relentless efficiency, is there anyone still willing to pause for a moment and be filled with wonder?

Sound recordist Seong-hyun can’t go home because he still hasn’t captured the ambience, and a strange noise on the set is driving him crazy. He sends the assistant director to block the sound, but it only grows louder and louder.

A film director boards the subway with a Super 8 camera, filming various corners of Seoul. Though it may seem like a slow and complicated process, she is moving forward—steadily and with certainty.

A director struggles to remake Singin' in the Rain with AI actors.

Thanks to his grades, Meïssa has just transferred from a suburban school to a private school in Paris. During a study period, his new classmates introduce him to a game that goes against his values and upbringing.

A magical change comes to the laundromat when a notebook is opened. When Jia writes and draws, her imagination brings a fantasy world to life. A funny commotion of feathers happens, making the ordinary room feel like a dream.

Rats living in the subway interfere in human elections using lost mobile phones, aiming to prevent the victory of a politician who threatens their survival. After manipulating public opinion, they succeed in getting their preferred candidate elected, but are betrayed and have to face the flamethrowers. Although they helped bring this power into place in order to survive, the rats are ultimately exterminated by the very authority they helped create.

During a simple conversation on a train, two gay friends express their regret over a friendship that, years earlier, might have become something more. By the end, both are left with a completely different understanding of each other, of themselves, and of what they might have been.

Julián Expósito’s life is nothing extraordinary. His days pass indifferently, immersed in apathy, and nothing serves as a stimulus, not even this short film.

A hopelessly romantic space explorer searches for love aboard the starship Lovefinder. Whenever the ship's sensors detect the presence of love on a planet, he lands and sets off in search of it. But what he discovers leaves him disappointed, and he ultimately finds comfort in the most unexpected way.

While fixing a broken printer, Jayong stumbles upon fragments of an old diary — traces of a child who once dreamed of becoming a ballerina. The modest dream written on paper instantly transforms the gray office into a stage, where Jayong, draped in a skirt of documents, dances alone under the light.

In the chaotic rhythm of a mundane subway, a single paper falls to the floor and begins an unexpected journey, searching for the person who lost it. What appears to be nothing more than crumpled trash to hurried passersby might actually be something irreplaceable to someone else.