A woman who loses her identity to PTSD sets out to regain her identity by overcoming her trauma. Based on the writer/director's personal experience. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a disability.
Bullied at school and weighed down at home by his dad's drinking, Yukan is eager to escape it all. When his best friend, Watan, invites him on a hike, a physically and emotionally bruised Yukan grabs his machete and the two boys head into the woods.
Following the passing of his wife, a devoted father is learning to raise his son with Down Syndrome as a single parent. While adjusting to their new reality, the two embark on a journey through Metro Atlanta to attend their first baseball game.
Following the death of her family dog, Emma finds herself at a crossroads where grief and release play together: a midlife awakening is now in full throttle, and those closest to Emma feel the impact, including her best friend Stan and her rambunctious daughter Maggie. To make matters more complicated and ripe for comedic mishaps, Emma's estranged ex-husband Andy returns to the city from Singapore down on his professional luck and aiming to rekindle things with his lost love.
A party is organised at kindergarten for the birthday of six-year-old Pooria. But the star of the party is a hired actress dressed as Cinderella who is the centre of everyone's attention. While the birthday party is being filmed with the style of a home video, little Pooria falls in love with Cinderella. As the camera passes from hand to hand, it will also record the behind-the-scenes of this fairytale party.
In this black comedy drama, we meet a seemingly perfect family consisting of Olivia, Alexander and their daughter Agata. With the arrival of 25-year-old Julian in their home, their lives are turned upside down and their dysfunctional relationships are revealed. Redemption through humour explores the theme of emotionally drained elites and places it in the context of contemporary social issues.
Once Vlad discovers a strange object in the lining of his coat, he immediately decides that the insidious damage is to blame for all his recent failures. Trying to dissuade Vlad, his girlfriend Sasha turns their supernatural problems into real ones. The film explores a young couple's attempt to mend their lives and rebuild a dying relationship through flirting with religious esoteric themes. Is it possible to successfully convince yourself that your problems will be solved through a mystical ritual or will you still have to face reality?
A young man is forced to confront his limitations, face the ghosts of the past in order to unite a fractured community and realise his dream of leading his town's Christmas Choir Band to former glory.
Emmett is a 16 year-old boy living in a foster home with his 17 year-old brother Will. Their feelings towards life are jaded, but they handle it in different ways - Will chooses to walk the straight and narrow path, working hard in school and at his day-job. Emmett, however, chooses a different path - one that introduces him to the world of organized narcotic crime within the small town they inhabit. ​After Emmett wrongs the local crime-head, he’s caught in between the judgment of his brother and the danger of the life he’s chosen. With everything on the line, Emmett must choose whether to run from the damage he’s caused, or lean into the chaos that draws him in.
The film portrays Negar, a nursing student, as she gains respect and importance in society through her actions rather than her physical appearance. On the very day of her marriage proposal ceremony, she loses something that will cause her trouble. While Negar lacks the rebellious courage of the next generation, she finds herself caught between the expectations imposed upon her and her desire for personal agency.
The factory shuts down and the grandfather suffers a cerebral infarction. His grandson tries to take him to the city to enjoy his retirement, but he refuses. The grandson eventually understands that it is not the present factory that his grandfather is unwilling to leave, but the factory that remains in his memory as well as his own youth.
Sandro goes back to her native Ossetia for the funeral of her father and is immediately immersed in the chaos of the ceremony. When she sets foot on the fatherland again, she feels more alienation than a sense of homecoming. She and her brother Geor can feel the crushing weight of an unvoiced truth: Sandro wants to leave forever.
Gaby and Jo are an elderly couple without children. Throughout their lifetime, they each had life plans and yet never managed to live out their dreams. Gaby felt a deep sense of guilt and trauma due to her inability to conceive children. As Jo approaches the end of his life, his memory slowly fades away. Gaby sees a chance to give her husband a taste of the life he had never lived.