NZ Animated version of the Stephen King Story - Stella Flanders has never left Koati Island in her 95 years. Afflicted by illness and a brutal winter, she starts to see the ghosts of her dead loved ones, including her late husband Bill. When the reach between the island and the mainland freezes over, she finds herself lured on to make the crossing once before she passes away.
A piercingly open talk between a mother and a daughter about growing up as a woman in Uzbekistan, now and back then. Confessions about sex no one really wanted, about the experience of misogyny and gender asymmetry. Naked truths as a form of therapy.
An artist is asked to write by a con artist agent and an improvised historian, a 'performance' to remember Giovanni Battista Casti three hundred years after his birth. A situation and homage that results in a satirical transposition of today.
In a small village in eastern France, a Christian man prays in a chapel before the Blessed Sacrament. Meditating on the real presence of Christ, he remembers that in Jerusalem, for centuries, a mysterious flame has appeared every year in Jesus' empty tomb, on Holy Saturday of Orthodox Easter. Considered a manifest sign of the resurrection, this light, which mysteriously materializes in the holy tomb, seems to be a gift from Christ, a sign to the world that he has truly risen and remains present among us.
Heres is a young girl who suffers from social anxiety in a relationship with a narcissist, seeing the first signs of it. Understanding herself in the world, resolving her complexities and managing a toxic relationship will be her biggest challenges.
An anxious teenage boy overcomes his apprehension to talk to a girl. While approaching her, he imagines the worst that could happen. He is laughed at, he goes viral on social media and he turns into a clown all before facing a decision; to learn the truth or to stay in the darkness and dread of his mind. His choice of the truth results in a relievingly pleasant conversation that ends with the girl revealing that she has a boyfriend
In a society steadfastly in tune with the passing of time, trying to step up and leave behind the marks of the tragic past, the marginalisation experienced by the unseen side in Nicosia within-the-walls is a howling reminder of the consequences of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 50 years on.
The daughter, an aspiring actress turned insurance planner, dreams of running a café with her mother in their hometown of Jeju Island. As they contemplate signing up for dementia insurance for her mother, who is beginning to show signs of the condition, an unexpected delivery from the past arrives, prompting her mother to embark on a journey back in time to meet with old friends.
The story of a girl's life that has been destroyed due to the death of her mother. But her mother's death is not the main reason, and the external roots of the problem are slowly emerging...