Lalo is a little boy who lives in an orphanage and dreams of singing in the choir of the church. His companions make fun of him and beat him, so he is unjustly punished afterwards. Very soon, everyone will discover in him an extraordinary change of direction in his life.
18 year old Em goes on a journey, with biscuits from her grandmother that she eats and shares with new friends. When down to her last biscuit, Em has to make a choice: eat it, or save it as a final link to her home.
Sometimes it is not easy to know who you are...
Filmmaker Andy Blubaugh documents a year spent looking for love in the personal ads.
Sunny, a young Asian American woman with anger management issues, returns home to the San Gabriel Valley seeking respite from her recent career failures - but a simple grocery shopping trip with her mother may prove more than she can handle.
Two college boys were so closed to each other that they had to escaped from their relation after graduating from college. They met again in a wedding banquette ten years after that, sitting next to each other again, as in the past. Jae drove drunken Him to Him's far away home. The trip was long enough for them to review their relationship, but not good enough to repair it? Maybe the best distance for them to love each other is from wedding banquette to home.
Valeria's family is all love and harmony. However - when Valeria decides to terminate her piano lessons- a secret comes to light- and everything inside the family starts convulsing in an atonal tragedy....
In the wake of her arranged marriage, a young woman in Mauritius begins a job at a call centre. Her first steps toward independence have repercussions no one could have expected.
It's July of 1969. The most historical event in history has just occurred. Families and friends have all come together to see the impossible happen: The Moon Landing. Dave Hunter is accompanied by his loving wife, Carolyn, and his space aficionado son, Charlie, for the President Nixon broadcast of welcoming the astronauts back to Earth. Dave is not only thrilled to see the astronauts return home, but also eager to begin his assignment as a darkroom photographer for NASA. He's been selected to develop photos from the moon landing for LIFE Magazine. Dave is very passionate about his career, but he always makes time for his family. Charlie and his father have a long running tradition of Dave bringing home a photo from work for his son. Charlie's tendency to be over observant he notices a flaw in one of the photos he is given. This causes Dave to investigate the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas and see why this photo is like this.
While on a long journey north, a post-apocalyptic survivor is awakened to the sound of an explosion, and upon investigation, finds the hope that she might not be alone in this deadened world.
Keith daydreams amid a brittle life as a piano teacher, observing her student Anna - a daughter living in a wealthy, glamorous house - and showing interest in the life of a down-and-out homeless girl, Pia, who is full of artistic expression and love.
Armand is a pickpocket. In stealing a camera, he did not expect to discover his portrait, pris sur le vif.
“Sonic artist” Chris Cree Brown discusses composing with new media and how he orchestrates particular sounds into formal compositional structures. Some sounds are made instrumentally, while others are recorded from his environment. In 1980 few classically-trained musicians in New Zealand experimented with synthesized sound and the gloriously large and sturdy equipment Brown uses to create his music will be of sure anthropological interest to many musos. The documentary was recorded with no script to capture the true art of creation.
Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy.
A boy enters an artist's workshop, eager to find out what that encounter might bring him...
A music conductor, and family man, gets involved in a tragic accident. Luckily the operating surgeon has developed a pioneering medical solution. Loosely based on Roald Dahl's short story “William And Mary”.
Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters. The NKVD surrounds the insurgents. The captain of the commissariat squad gives Orest a choice: he either gives Eva out or accepts an unequal fight.
A family tries to schedule the medically assisted death of a loved one.
After uncovering a degraded vinyl album in an abandoned home, three musicians attempt to reimagine one of its songs.