After his father disappears in the Mekong River, Tawan, a devout atheist, must lead the search. While villagers demand he perform a sacred ritual to appease the mythical Naga.
Hendrix's best friend, Harris goes missing in the Spring of Valentine. Only Harris and the Nerina sisters know the truth of what actually happened in that Garden of tragedy. Based on Hylas and the Nymphs.
Lifelong friends, James and Michael, are forced to confront their relationship to each other and their hometown, Portland, as Michael gets ready to move to New York.
Lucas—an insecure, in-the-closet 22 year old—is stuck babysitting for a well off Brooklyn family to get by. On any other Friday evening, he arrives to watch Freud, a precocious 7 year old. Only there’s one problem: a new babysitter, Frankie, is already there. What happens as a chance occurrence between two young men spirals into a weekend of self-discovery and acceptance.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Xia Yulai, the "ghost-talent" lawyer of Chaoshan who never lost a case, clashes with his daughter, Xia Laibi, who wants to be the Great Qing's first female lawyer, over his unconventional "Summer Fox" methods. As foreign capital invades the Chaoshan market, the father and daughter uncover a sinister conspiracy behind seemingly minor civil and commercial disputes. When Xia Laibi is framed for murder and arson, Xia Yulai defends her in court against corrupt officials and wicked merchants. United, the two rally the Chaoshan locals ("Gagi Nang") for a climactic stand against the foreign threat.
A once-famous and talented actor, after a life collapse caused by alcohol and drugs, finds himself at rock bottom and begins his new acting life as Kosta the Clown, an entertainer at children’s birthday parties. An old colleague offers him a deal he can’t refuse: for a large sum of money, he agrees to host a children’s reality show called Magic Land.
A reclusive mortician who has been tasked with washing the bodies of recently deceased ex-pat Iranians in Canada. His world is turned upside down when he receives an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a Hand Raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma. On The Sea is a beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
When Azubuike’s 12-year-old son moves in with him, the struggling shoe salesman finds himself balancing fatherhood and the slow collapse of his small shop. As the pair navigate their estrangement, the unspoken becomes a language of its own; one shaped by pride, duty, and the quiet weight of expectation. With the future of both the shop and their relationship hanging in the balance, father and son must find a way to bridge the distance between one another.