After yet another tense interaction with her emotionally unavailable mother, Cissy is ready to throw in the towel on their relationship. Thank goodness the connection with her own teen daughter Bennie is so different - thanks to years of therapy. On a regular night in, Cissy and Bennie stumble upon an old family photo album. The aged, crumbling photos they discovered inside not only expose the secrets of their ancestors’ survival, but they also help them travel through time to understand the struggles of the women in their family - and maybe learn how to heal their lineage.
Facing loneliness, loss of love and social isolation, four male characters must cope with those issues in the midst of navigating and living out their single lives as explored in four short narrative genre films contained in this anthology
A boiling kettle, the click of computer keys and anonymous mood music cannot fill the silence between the miserably married Sultan and Haneen. Sultan is an alternative therapist and, judging by their apartment, a very successful one; his wife responds cynically when he asks her to talk to him, saying she not one of his clients. Even so, she finds herself answering when he asks what she wants. Sultan, usually so firmly in control, is devastated by what she has to say.
Toufic, a widower in his ‘80s, answers the phone to be told of yet another friend who has died. He is lost in mournful contemplation when a beautiful woman mistakenly knocks on his door with a parcel, awakening something long dormant in Toufic. He consults with his grocery store owner's charming son Roni who introduces him to a dating application. Toufic is primed to swipe right on every pretty young face, but the absurdity of real life intervenes.
Caught in an endless loop resetting at the end of each day, a self-centered highschool student seizes the opportunity to indulge in reckless activities and fulfill his wildest dreams, from pulling pranks to enjoying himself to the fullest extent.
"Rooted In Truth" is a silent short film adaptation of The Parable of The Sower from the Gospel of Matthew made by Aj Richardson, Jackson Ormond, and Jordan Neel for a film school project.
Rakan and his wife Rim are looking for an apartment to rent instead of living with his aged mother. It seems they have found the right spot, except for the hole in the wall that looks as if someone bashed it with a hammer. Rakan seems strangely unengaged, however, barely speaking to his wife. Gradually, as we slip from present to past, we piece together the story that explains his barrage of unwanted calls, chance encounters with shady characters and outbreaks of violence. When his mother’s home is burgled and she is attacked, he is confronted by the person he least wants to see.
During a stage rehearsal for a play featuring two eating-disordered track runners, the director becomes furious as one of his actors struggles to remember their lines.
Audiovisual exploration of female corporality and what happens to it during a mystical experience. This is the combination of the carnal and the spiritual, with the contact of catholic symbology. Religiosity and the erotic, and also temptation and violence, all of these elements come together to illustrate an earthly spirituality. The following short film is inspired by true accounts of religious women, their perspective and their relationship with Jesus of Nazareth and the configuration of him on the female body.
At age eighteen, Jayden Morton was sentenced to twelve years in prison for manslaughter after accidently shooting and killing an innocent child. Released shortly after his thirtieth birthday, Jayden wants two things, to be a father to his twelve-year old son, Noah, and to find a way to redeem himself. Juggling the pressures from the outside world. Jayden must confront his past, seek redemption and convince his son to avoid the same mistakes he once made before Noah makes the greatest mistake of his young life.
After years away from his family, Eduardo returns to decide his mother’s future but ends up having to confront his father and brother about issues from his past.