Three sisters struggle with unhappy relationships, frustrated desires and emotional isolation in suburban New Jersey. While Joy searches for affection, Helen hides her own misery behind apparent success, and Trish tries to preserve the image of a perfect family life, the people around them become trapped in fantasies, obsessions and deeply disturbing secrets.
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days. But dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.
What if having a child does not come naturally? Piano tuner Samuel Dirk longs for a family. The problem: his wife has quite literally exploded under the pressure. Is there someone else who might be willing to give their very best in order to fulfil a wish for a child? As Samuel struggles to regain control of his life, his mother steps in with a radical solution: a magical fertility jam that promises a new beginning.
From besieged Aleppo to the confines of a London newsroom, Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos and Syrian activist and cameraman Abd Alkader Habak retrace their love story, using their vast personal archives stretching over 13 years of revolutions, war and exile. Can their love survive distance, danger, and differences?
A tragic mistake shatters the life of a devoted father, shaking his marriage and isolating him in guilt. As the threat of prison looms, he begins to question whether he deserves to go on living. But when he and his wife come to see that the tragedy was not a personal failure, but something rooted deep in the architecture of the human mind, a fragile path toward forgiveness begins to emerge....See more details
Cristi, a young police detective in a small Romanian town, refuses to arrest a teenager caught smoking marijuana, unwilling to destroy the boy’s future over a minor offense that may soon become legal. His superiors, however, demand that the law be enforced to the letter.
Jung-hwan, a professional wild animal trainer, spends his days bickering and playing with his teenage daughter, Soo-ah, who is passionate about dancing. Then one day, Soo-ah gets infected by a zombie virus that sweeps across the world. To protect her, Jung-hwan takes Soo-ah to a seaside village where his mother lives....See more details
Fifteen-year-old Malou grows up in a small town with her two brothers and their mother. She excels at the local rowing club, but also gets bullied by her teammates. While her mother is trying to start dating again, the one person she can turn to is her older brother Max. But when Malou has a crush on Max’s new girlfriend Nouria, her life is turned upside down.
A father and his estranged sons travel through the massive city of Lagos while political unrest threatens their journey home in this semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis.
Santiago, Chile, September 11, 1973. As the military coup unfolds across the country, Captain Jorge Silva receives an order that will change his life forever: to turn the Air Force Academy, where he now trains young cadets, into a detention and torture center. Convinced that the horror will be short-lived, Silva tries to stay on the sidelines, but the arrival of an unhinged superior officer will force him to confront his deepest beliefs.