Alternativa Film Festival 2024

Sonia is a 12-year-old girl with albinism from a poor village near Bengaluru. Bullied at school and neglected at home, she struggles to find acceptance, but gradually grows into a confident young woman who learns to embrace herself.

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband. Meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

After her parents' divorce, Melina lives with her grandparents but wants to be with her mother. On her 9th birthday, she takes her custody case to court, hoping to choose her custodian, unaware of the complexities involved.

When a 21-year-old girl falls in love with a boy from an oppressed caste, her infuriated family believes that she is possessed by his love spell. They ruthlessly drag her to a distant village shaman to erase all her memories of him by performing witchcraft and sacrificing a rooster. The girl’s innocent future is now dictated by the violent misogynistic patriarchs and their regressive ideologies.

Filmmaker Yi-Shan’s best friends Chun and Yueh were trapped in a Nepal cave for 47 days. Chun died three days before Yueh's rescue, prompting Yi-Shan to take up the camera and retrace her friends’ footsteps in Nepal. When Yi-Shan reaches the cave, what awaits her there?

A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in this energetic exploration of the 2019 elections in Thailand.

A tomboy girl Arno, one of five sisters, strives to become the son her father has always longed for. As she navigates the challenges of growing up, Arno learns to accept herself and takes responsibility for her own wishes.

Nepal's Civil War ended in 2006, but not for Devi, rebel warrior, mother and sexual violence survivor. As those in power try to erase rape from the history of the war, Devi has to battle her own demons before she can begin to build a movement to fight for justice.

Jovan, a 16-year-old religious teenager, is watching porn for the first time when accidentally the audio is connected to his mother’s car Bluetooth. He is punished by his devout Christian parents and asked to repent without explanation.

Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls. But a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy and sad love songs.

A young Burmese woman who was trafficked to China and sold into marriage tells her story. Based on the real-life protagonist’s words and beautifully rendered in pen-and-ink, this animation portrays a woman torn between her love for the child she was forced to bear and her longing for the country to which she may never be able to return.

Nyi Rai, raised away from his parents for more than a decade returns to his village after his sister's unexpected death. This led to his father quitting drugs. In his debut film, the filmmaker sits down with his parents for the first time, uncovering a journey of loss, redemption, and renewed hope for the future.