Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

Winner of Best Short Film at the Berlinale, Francisco Lezama’s idiosyncratic comedy sees life for what it is: absurd and mundane, with sporadic moments of serendipity. Twisting together diverse modern phenomena—dating apps, global finance—An Odd Turn is alive to the present in all its surprises.

Director Laura Citarella returns to the eerie setting of her offbeat mystery Trenque Lauquen for this playful, sartorially inclined short. Strange dialogue, absurdist situations, and eccentric characters abound as common sense meets unexplained phenomena—and tantalizing fashion garments.