
Five domestic stories, five characters, and their families. Small stories that magnify their small ambitions, pettiness, hope, and discouragement, which for each of them are moving, definitive and tragic.
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7.117-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
6.3A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
5.9An aging couple follows after Ismael Tchou, an 8-year-old, who is trying to find his way to his estranged biological father all by himself.
6.7Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
6.4A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
7.3When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
6.2While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
7.3A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
6.6Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
6.1Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
6.2A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
6.0A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
7.3Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.
7.2A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
6.0New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
6.6A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.
6.9Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
5.9The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
0.0Lane hasn't spoken to Beth in several years, until she asks him to come to her hotel room after a terrible incident. Lane now has to make a choice to help out his old flame and confront a former friend, or turn his back on them both and get on with his life.
0.0A northern small town family embarks on a manhunt to avenge the death of one of their own.
0.0Three different snapshots of family life are captured through the eyes of a painting, with the progression of technology getting in their way.
7.0Haunted by a toxic past, Kimberly Salazar sees the damage yet remains entangled in its patterns. Desperate for escape, she takes a job that ultimately leads her back to the very place she tried to leave behind.
0.0The lives of four strangers intertwine when a couple's anniversary night spirals into a whirlwind of bizarre run-ins, chance encounters, and a frantic search for baby formula.
6.3An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
0.0An offbeat, dark comedy about what we discover about ourselves through the relationships we forge and the drinks we consume.
10.0Four teens from around the world step off the path they were told to follow — and take the road less travelled.
0.0A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever Chinese Opera Singer to have performed Pingju Opera in English in late 1980's China.
0.05 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.
6.7After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.
0.0A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.
0.0In Silence (No Silêncio) STORYLINE: Eduardo Porto is a TV series director who, after being assaulted by actress Glória Pedrosa's father, gathers his filming crew at Camila's, his art director, house to try to reverse the situation before it becomes a media scandal. *_The film has won 10 awards: 6 awards - Best Feature Film, 2 - Best Director and Best Debut Filmmaker (Alexandre Britto), Best Photographer (Pedro Iorio), Best Actor (Evandro Miúdo)_* The feature film is in the international festival circuit.
7.0Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical agent named Nevin enters Else’s life. He is played by Hubert von Meyerinck as a slick and oily villain, who oozes refinement; his experience behind bars is waved away with a silk scarf. He is cunning to the point of perfidiousness, but is not completely unsympathetic. He also embodies a new type - the scrounger.
5.9A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.
5.3Natalie and Joshua appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. Newly divorced and soured on relationships, Natalie is picking up the pieces of her shattered world. In the process of healing, she meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
0.0In 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.
10.0A passionate foodie loses his beloved hawker stalls to corporate pressure, he reluctantly turns to processed food he calls 'trash' in a moment of deep sorrow and disappointment as he grieves the loss of his favourite food stalls.