After finding love, Tom and Austin Wright unwittingly schedule weddings for the same day - leading to a fierce fight over who gets to wed their bride on Christmas Day.
A young couple is lured into the clutches of a bloodthirsty 500-year-old vampire; the exotic stranger tries to persuade them to swap partners and join his kind.
Sam hates the holidays. Bailey loves the holidays. On a lonely Valentine’s Day the two meet-cute, quickly bond, and become friends. With every passing holiday Sam and Bailey spend together, they fall further in love with each other.
A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to Leo, a young 21-year-old sailor who revisits his relationship with Jimena after his great-aunt reminds him of his favorite myth from when he was a child: the story of the nereids.
Alesha Delacroix, a beautiful, African American young woman hates Christmas because she lost her beloved fiancé at Christmastime three years before. She reluctantly agrees to visit her Caribbean grandmother to help organize her annual Christmas charity function to save Gramma Belle's children's clinic. When she arrives with her best friend and event-planning partner, Christina Jimenez, Alesha meets a handsome Brit, Garrett Graham, and despite her reluctance to get involved again, sparks begin to fly.
Tarquin's life has spiraled out of control, a well bred public school educated man. Having nothing going for him except his own guilt, regret and destitution; he is his own enemy. The traumas and hardships he's endured have led him to a life of drugs an solicitation. Ready to escape the hell of the urban underworld, he embarks upon a journey to salvation to The Balearic Island of Ibiza. Alive under the scintillating sun, engulfed in the 'culture' and heart-pumping Music that is known to every party goer, Tarquin's hope for regeneration may not be as simple as he thinks.
Jack Cooper visits his late wife’s hometown for Christmas and gets more than he bargained for, when his determined daughter decides to match him up with a charming local shop owner.
This guerrilla-style drama exposes the harsh reality of money-driven child marriages in China. The Chinese government wants to keep the subject of this film hidden, but it's undeniable that arranged marriages and bride-buying still exist in China's poorer provinces. The filmmakers witnessed these practices firsthand, through their own family members. In the film, we follow 14-year-old Hani, who dreams of marrying Pushiha. However, in the village, every bride comes with a hefty price tag. Desperate, Hani looks for ways to raise the money, even if it means committing crimes. This heartbreaking, real-life Romeo and Juliet story reflects a harsh truth.
As a major life decision approaches, Theo finds himself yearning for what he doesn’t have in this romantic drama about the conflict between happiness and self-destruction.
5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.
Rivkah, a Jewish cafe owner, tells the story of 'Squeaky Clean Mo', a down on his luck dishwasher who has been hiding his Jewish identity for years. When he starts working at her cafe, a romance begins to bubble.
She gets short of breath from incense cleansing rituals, dream diaries, wish lists that are supposed to be thrown into the fire bowl and other such esoteric hocus-pocus. At a winter solstice party thrown by her older sister Svea just before Christmas, the more rational climate researcher Liane encounters a world that is foreign to her. The scientist meets Mani, who is walking the spiritual path and who somehow fascinates her despite all the differences. Her relationship with her long-time boyfriend Philipp is less good. After an argument, he flies to Gomera alone. She stays behind, not only worrying about the weather being far too warm, but also has to put up with her Christmas-crazy neighbor and his family and receive her conspiracy-obsessed in-laws-to-be while Mani stays overnight with her. On Christmas Eve, fate and the weather really start to shake up Liane.