An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss....

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: An...

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daugh...

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a vi...

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, an...

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and...

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself....

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church....

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is ...

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and p...

James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a seri...

A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival....

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like the...

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solac...

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police....

Ina, an introverted 11-year-old immigrant, finds herself captivated by Petra, a new classmate coming from the same country as her. Faced with the newcomer’s indifference towards her, Ina embarks on a ...

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County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of th...

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A portrait of a depressed mother and her child....

A young man inherits his estranged father's tailor shop and the challenges that come with it....

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentri...

Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders....

An honest, genuine writer discovers the painful truth of a handsome and charming yet manipulative and toxic love interest....

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity...

After an unexpected night together, two strangers learn their spouses are having an affair with each other, pulling them into a day of heartbreak, truth, and unexpected connection....

An ex-philosophy professor-turned-hermit hires a sex-worker to play chess and answer a series of personal questions, but with one caveat: she cannot ask any questions about him....

A girl, struggling to get out of the house to meet with her friends at a bar, faces her emotions through her reflection before the hangout, forcing herself to break through those barriers, even if it'...

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotli...

Plastic Chairs follows Dylan, a recovering addict forced back into a support meeting by his sister after a near-fatal overdose. There, he meets Tom — a man further along the same path, who recognises...

Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings an...

After getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is force...

A short film about the the story of a young woman,Desiree, reflecting on the betrayal of her significant other and her struggle through forgiveness, healing, and restoration in their relationship....

Alone in his room, Michael, a young boy, its getting ready for a party but his thoughts invades him. He faces his reflection, where every glance reveals the quiet weight of insecurity and the fragilit...

In the vein of Raymond Carver, this abstract monologue captures the hidden truth behind our personas. What happens when you “see” a person for the first time? No walls up, a real face emerges....