In the maze of monochrome images, as the consciousness awakens in confusion one night, a young male student's confession reveals how he was slapped in the face by an adult, who's his girlfriend's mother, and it has become his trauma that has kept him up all night for the past several months.
An honorable and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, makes himself an enemy of the Emperor Kisra after he helps a fugitive king and princess in the desert.
Celeste is a carefree 15-year-old coming of age after the fall of Pinochet when her life changes drastically and unexpectedly. Now, the desert and oceanside she once embraced feels alien. In an uncertain nation going through a transition of its own, Celeste is thrust into an adult world where she must grow up faster than she could have ever imagined.
Arita, Saga prefecture: While working at a pottery studio, Okubo continues to search for clay to use in his own creations. Fumi listens to the townspeople, records them, and draws an "invisible map" of the town. Seitaro rides around town on his fixed-gear bike, carrying a camera. Okubo's sister, Miu, has returned to town after wandering the world. Hands that dig the soil. Ears that listen to voices. Eyes that capture the light. Feet returning. Following the presence of "something that was once there but can no longer return," gazing at the glittering shapes of shadows, the artist depicts the figures of people who are certainly alive in this very moment.
After his father’s death and the fall of the farm, Cebe Tate enters a sacred swamp seeking food for his wife and answers from the past. What he finds instead is a descent into hell.
Not everything that grows will bloom. Some stories end halfway, yet leave traces that time can never erase. This is a quiet tale about love that arrived too late, about moments that slipped away before they could be held, and about the kind of loss that teaches us what it truly means to care even when it’s already too late
HIGH SCHOOL REALLY SUCKS… And no one knows that better than best friends Aaron and Keith. So when they set out to crash the last graduation party of the summer, emotions fly high and the culture clash of teenagers find themselves playing a simple game that has dire consequences.