The measure of drowning is an ecosexual fable about breathing better even when drowning, finding ways to resist the collapse of life and re-nourishing desires.
As she deals with the consequences of a near-death experience, Katherine finds herself stuck in limbo, piecing together her past lives while dealing with loneliness, isolation and trauma, finding solace in unusual places
Rosa Friedrich was never that interested in porn, until her friend Timo expresses a wish to star in an erotic film. So she agrees to help him get his project off the ground. However, the closer it gets to the shooting date, the more Timo feels embarrassed and doubtful about being involved in the first place. His face is ultimately replaced with the help of AI, and Rosa, together with a dominatrix, three trans women, a food-porn creator, a sex coach and other protagonists, continues with the film.
While an expectant couple whispers to each other in a hospital room, a catastrophic news report breaks on the television. As contractions kick in, their surreal imaginings start to fracture their sense of reality.
"Hey Rin, let’s send a jam sandwich to space." Rin came to Kyoto from Seoul, and Sola came to Kyoto from Okinawa. They met at university and have since pursued filmmaking together. They like having fun and they like filming funny things and laughing together. They want to fly a jam sandwich. They want to shoplift a film camera. They want to trace Sora's family roots in Okinawa. The two sublimate their desires to filmmaking. For the two, film is like a magic wand. They transform it into all kinds of genres and put themselves in it. The two desire to know each other, but never compromise and, instead, accept their uncertain identities just to have the greatest conversation.
Having lost her husband, Tokiko lives alone in a detached house and begins looking for a job in search of a connection to society. However, she is hindered by the barriers of her age and past experience, and does not achieve the results she desires. In the midst of her lonely days, she meets Anh, a young Vietnamese technical trainee working at a supermarket, and a small, awkward exchange begins between the two, despite their differences in age, language, and background. Tokiko begins to harbor a faint hope for a connection with Anh, but their relationship begins to waver in an unexpected way. Torn between her desire to connect with others and her loneliness, she makes a certain choice.
They usually get around on bikes or scooters, darting through the streets of major European cities to deliver goods to customers almost unnoticed. They do this illegally for large corporations. One of them is Omar, who comes from Benin. The young man lives in Porto without documents, works as a courier for one of the major restaurant chains, and every day risks being caught by police patrols targeting migrants.
Haunted by the image of the "ideal girl" that captivates the world, Alice Liddell embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Through travel, art and family bonds, she learns to reconcile with her identity, ultimately transforming a lifelong curse into a blessing.
Consumed by self-imposed isolation and total apathy, a young man’s mind begins to violently turn against him, trapping him in a psychological puzzle box of his own making where he must fight his own fractured identities to survive.
Agadez, a desert city in northern Niger, is weighed down by geopolitical interests and the harsh European border policy. The filmmaker weaves testimonies of three courageous women who each, in their own way, try to confront this reality. They speak about their work, their role in the community, and how they put solidarity into practice. Their inspiring stories offer a glimpse of a feminism that is not theoretical, but rooted in everyday life—a feminism that is truly practiced and lived.