When thirteen-year-old Bryce Lee claims to be related to martial arts legend Bruce Lee to gain respect at school, the falsehood threatens to unravel his identity, his friendships, and his self-worth.
I look around and observe the landscape. I let myself go because that's all I have left: to listen, to look, to sleep, perhaps to dream. The rattle of the bus moves me.
After an impulsive one-night stand leads to an unexpected pregnancy, two flatmates must confront who they are, and who they want to be, before the baby arrives.
Trishna, a Bengali actress in France, faces a marriage proposal from home while playing a character with the same dilemma. Torn between love, career, and family pressure, she fights to claim the leading role in her own life.
On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood.
As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed.
Starting from the distance that separates him from asteroid 121019 Minodamato, the narrator embarks on an emotional journey in search of the many lives of his grandfather, Mino Damato: from reporting on some of the most devastating conflicts of the postwar era to the bright lights of 1980s television, and finally to his encounter with an HIV-positive orphan who would change his life forever. As fragments of family, personal and collective memory are pieced together, Mino’s boundless fascination with the cosmos emerges as the thread connecting a life that seems impossible to decipher.
Grace, forty, is a scientist at the Exousia Foundation. When her boss Giovanni informs her of the death of her colleague Xiu Chen — his camp ransacked and burned, his computer missing — Grace travels to Costa Rica to recover the documents from his research into plants capable of tolerating high levels of CO₂. On the island where Xiu conducted secret experiments, guided by his young assistant Santiago, Grace discovers a plant with extraordinarily long leaves, which had already appeared in her daughter’s dreams. After they are followed by a car, Grace flees to Italy with several specimens. Back home, Xiu’s research attracts powerful interests. Between an old Biology professor, a multinational executive demanding the results, and an IT engineer hiding the data in a secure cloud, Grace discovers the true purpose of Xiu’s work: communicating with certain plant species and understanding their language. She decides to protect the research so it can remain a shared heritage of humanity.
At the edge of an unnamed city, two unemployed, directionless trans lesbians connect in a reality-shifting way.
Ten years ago, Lily spent a summer in Paris and met Thomas. Together, they made a promise, and today is the day to keep it.
Tâm is a young delivery worker whose heart condition from birth leads him into a strange folk ritual called 'lying in a coffin' – a practice held to transform one’s destiny through the symbolic act of death.
In the middle of the Pacific, the Fiji Islands. A village, a community, nestled between ocean and mountains. An island shaken by climate change. Storm clouds loom ahead, while the Fijians remain calm and share a lust for life. Collective strength. Providence. Erasure. Words mingle with the elements, and nature intimately weaves together the relationship between humans and their environment. Two scales, two parallel ways of looking at things, but both speaking with one voice.
When two sisters return to their childhood home after their elderly parents untimely death, they are forced to confront the disturbing truths hidden in the walls of the house. As their past comes to light, reality begins to distort, threatening to unravel their sanity.
As his parents' marriage fractures and eventually collapses into divorce, high schooler Takeshi becomes increasingly obsessed with hunting for a mysterious 'ball of fire' rumored by a childhood friend. Using this quest to escape the quiet turmoil at home, Takeshi leaves his younger brother to shoulder the family's emotional weight without realizing it.
U.S. Senate candidate Greg Levy broke the blockade on Cuba to deliver humanitarian aid, and saw a silent genocide unfolding in front of his eyes. "Station Hope" reveals an inside look at Cuba, from Greg's and a Cuban's eyes, as the Trump administration ramps up war on the socialist island nation.
Rosa, alone in her house in southern Italy which she built herself. Her children and grandchildren still live in Germany. This is not the way she thought it would be. Must she let go of her legacy?
A new mother, kept awake by the sound of foxes prowling outside her home, ventures into the night to scare them off only to find herself a part of a strange and feral ritual.
A group of people come together to test an exciting and experimental new technology. But it quickly turns into a deadly game of survival as the technology turns against them.
