The Tacoma Sister Cities International Film Festival will be held on Thursdays from February 27th to March 20th, 2025 at the Grand Cinema.

Presented by the TSC Kitakyushu Sister City Committee.

Tomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo''s uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko''s special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a time.

Presented by the committee for the new TSC Friendship City of Kochi, India. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai''s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

Presented by the TSC El Jadida, Morocco Committee. Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.

El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora Mexico, the film tells the story of Jeremías (Martin Castro) an eight year old who finds out he is a gifted child and initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.

Presented by the TSC Cienfuegos Committee. In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro turns to genetic engineering to create his elusive New Man and save his socialist utopia. Eventually the experiment fails because these highly intelligent beings are cruel and uncontrollable. Rejected by their own creators, they orchestrate a series of terrorists attacks throughout the island spreading fear and chaos in Cuba. When Elena, a group member, discovers a clue to her genetic identity, she embarks on a journey to find her own humanity.

Presented by the TSC Committee for Taichung, Taiwan. Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.

Presented by the TSC Split, Croatia Committee. Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are traveling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28,000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.

Presented by the TSC Brovary, Ukraine Committee. During the war, a small boy calls the laptop of his missing dad, but it happens to be at a volunteer girl''s. The boy asks her to find his parents. But to save the boy''s family, she has to risk the lives of her loved ones.