While still in elementary school, young Tashi rescued a stray dog. But the stray dog is adopted and named Tashi, which makes Tashi the laughing stock of his classmates. So little Tashi plans to kill the dog Tashi, but accidentally hits him blind. Tashi has been guilty for many years and suffers from eye disease. Tashi believes that this is the curse of the dog’s owner. Years later, when he becomes a famous writer and returns to his hometown, he learns another truth.
At the family reunion on the winter solstice, the grandma and mother knead dough to make Tuanzi (Dango, rice dumplings), while the grandpa and father fold gold foil paper into ingots. The son wanders among the adults, worried about a secret he has discovered. On the surface, the day seems fine, with everyone maintaining their usual expressions, yet something hidden simmers and grows within their chit-chat. This is a process-genre film. “Juci” is a Chinese restoration technique that fixes porcelain by nailing broken shards together. Like the vase in the film, the family is both broken and complete, separated and integral.
HAO Shuai devoted his wealth to buy a big diamond ring to marry ZHAO Xiaolu, but after meeting HAO Shuai’s parents, ZHAO Xiaolu disappeared with the ring. CUI Dacheng, a rock OG, discovered that as long as his daughter was at home, his creative block vanished, so he tried to persuade ZHAO Xiaolu to stay with him. However, having grown up with her mother, ZHAO Xiaolu was determined to distance herself from this stranger-like father.
David misses his ring-necked dove. It was his pet, his solace, and to remember the little creature he loved, he insists on adding its ashes to ink for a memorial tattoo. As the bird’s empty cage looms in his apartment and he goes about his daily work as a music engineer, the tattoo becomes infected. Avoiding the comfort of his girlfriend for weeks, his grief will soon take over his body in the most unusual way
Andrew mans up and provides for his family, but learns that his job at a locally-owned business is closing down. Down on his luck, he is tempted to make quick illegal cash and is pulled into the dark world of drug trafficking, only to discover secrets from his past.
After hearing the news of his Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Hoya getting a divorce, Max Bailey contemplates whether Hoya is the childhood hero he thought he was.
Cantonese girl Xili has been surreptitiously shadowing her parents' extramarital liaisons. Her boyfriend, Huang Muqiu, a divorced man with a four-year-old daughter, is an anonymous art film director facing financial setbacks that halt his film project midway.
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal.
Pedro is Mallorcan, born to a mother from Burgos and a father from Mallorca. Due to his distant relationship with his father, Pedro doesn't fully master Mallorcan as a language. He turns to the works of Damià Huguet to remember his father, as only his poems can fill the void left by his death. The poet's words transport Pedro to his childhood and his roots, even though many of the words are unknown to him, despite them belonging to his language. This becomes the driving force behind the protagonist's search for his own identity, his origins, what it means to be a man, father-son relationships, collective identity, and "mallorquinness". Pedro constantly questions the emotions stirred by Huguet's poetry, and, most importantly, who he is and where he belongs.
Xu Jin accidentally found a long-abandoned pen at home. Since then, he has been writing novels day and night as if he was possessed. No one knows what happened to him, including himself. After finishing the novel, he had a question: how to make everyone see his novel? So he started a crazy plan like Yugong moving mountains...
Struggling with survivor's guilt, a sister is learning to cope and reconcile her complicated relationship with her older brother as she is rapidly approaching her 22nd birthday - an age that he didn't quite live to see.
When Cora stops by to check on her elderly mother, she discovers her in the bathtub, dressed for a party and refusing to budge. Familiar with her mother’s dramatic antics, Cora attempts to reason with her, only to find herself drawn into a deeper confrontation that reveals the vulnerabilities hidden beneath her mother’s irascible facade, forcing Cora to confront painful truths.
Kamikaze bird that has embarked on a journey to a savage place of no return. A representation of the state of overflowing violence brought from drug trafficking through the oneiric vision of a marginal teenager recruited by a cartel.
Fitri (21) is a young woman who is the second wife in a polygamous family. Fitri has dreams that she would love to achieve, but unfortunately Gatot (45), her husband, does not allow her to realize her dreams.
The movie follows the lives of siblings Lena and Lambros after the loss of their parents. As the story unfolds in a series of scenes that shift between everyday moments and startling revelations, the siblings cope with their grief and navigate their personal and professional lives. Lena, a nurse, as she tells her brother, faces a variety of intense and disturbing situations at the hospital, while Lambros deals with his own struggles and the challenges of adolescence. The plot weaves through various settings and emotional landscapes, exploring themes of family, trauma, and resilience. The story takes darker turns involving violence and personal dilemmas, all while highlighting the relationship between the siblings as they confront the harsh realities of their worlds.
In a small town in New Jersey, two low-life friends work for a high profile crime boss, who assigns the two a job in which they must pull off a diamond heist at a local nightclub. But when the heist goes terribly wrong, the two start to question if their boss can be trusted.
Ardi (24) is an idealistic novice actor who trains hard and participates in various castings to get the main role. However, his hard efforts never produced results. So what will he do to get it?
Randra (21), a college student who became a gigolo because he was caught in an online loan. He met Citra (38), a customer who invited him to play “truth or dare” with odd rules. This game brought Randra into a difficult situation.