Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.
Leni (9) has a terminal disease and wants to make the most of her time left. She meets Marcel (25), a confused and depressed young man who is her opposite and has no interest in what life has to offer. Leni's mother Magda (35) juggles jobs to afford everything Leni needs. The three of them influence each other and find what seemed improbable in the beginning: love and friendship. And, above all, they resign, accept their destiny and the fact that they are characters in someone else's story.
A day in the life of two "better as friends" exes as they get together to hangout, fight over their shared past, and maybe truly see each other for the first time.
Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations, including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago, who was privy to Bang Bang’s meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s as well as the rivalry with his former opponent, her cousin and Detroit's Mayoral candidate Darnell Washington. Is Bang Bang merely passing down inherited rage, or is there true altruism behind his tutelage?
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
Zoila was tricked into marrying a manipulator (Richard) as her husband, whose agenda is to take over all the benefits she was getting from her company.
At the beginning of the XXth century, in an isolated mountain village, a little girl must accomplish a rite of passage to join a group of teenagers. Away from the village lives an old shepherd, solitary and mysterious, around whom rumors swirl. When strange phenomena occur, suspicions turn towards him. But everything changes the day the little girl disappears, the village ignites and everything flares up.
After a difficult break-up Michiel, a 20-year-old student, goes on a party holiday to Albufeira by plane. During the flight the engines suddenly shut off and the plane starts tumbling down. During the crash Michiel reflects on his way of living after heartbreak.
Manu, a middle-aged homosexual man, lives in the city of São Paulo in the late 80s and spends his nights performing as the drag queen Brigitte, in a cabaret. As Brigitte, professional and personal difficulties are caused by this secret identity. When Manu's son Juca decides to inform him that he intends to go to São Paulo, Manu is forced to face his problems to obtain the approval of the most important person in his life, his only son.
In a family-owned restaurant, a cutting-edge algorithm creates strikingly accurate personalized fortune cookies, blurring the lines between fate, fortune, and the unpredictability of life.
Tasked with installing self-service manicure stations at a nail salon, an automation technician meets a Vietnamese American nail tech whose job he is there to replace.
Hell is Other People follows four characters—The Catholic, The Activist, The Businessman, and The Killer—as they wake up in a purgatory space / “hell”.