A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving from his travels around the world. With the help of his friend Mr. Rostalle, (Paul Dooley) a blind widower and retired literary professor/poet, Gilbert (James Michael Tyler) learns to open himself up to the prospect of love, and in the process of trying to bring someone else happiness, discovers it for himself.
8-year-old Eva and her father go on a Montreal-Mexico road trip aboard an 18-wheeler.
Lu and Wei live in a village in rural China. The young girls often go to the nearby river to play or fish with their fathers. The river has a special meaning for them because China’s one-child policy has led to some parents drowning their newborn daughters there.
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
A traveling accordionist and superintendent of an old castle lives in an unhappy marriage, with a grown up daughter and has a sister-in-law who has been in love with him for years. During a trip, he meets young journalist (Mato Pavelic)and falls madly in love. His visit to the old castle tears the family apart, resulting in tragedy.
In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist intellectuals.
A restless young man roves in the gay hotspots of a metropolis. Anonymous places dressed in mirrors, intense colors and kitschy decors are the landscape for this stranger in search of comfort, connection and himself.
Two brothers are bored on a Saturday and decide to start a band. They then realize the stress of being in a band. Once they get a gig, they must put together a setlist and get ready for show, but they fear they don't have the time.
An unruly young mother and her two kids spend a hot summer day illicitly making ends meet on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
After his best friend disappears following a violent argument, a troubled marine must wrestle with his identity and guilty conscience.
Miss Maud, an orphan, has grown up in a boarding house, raised by the conservative matron Mrs Frank. In her suppressed desires and love for Mr Eldmann, Miss Maud creates an imaginary world where love is greater than life. Perhaps even greater than death itself …
In the special, Yodonna is given an opportunity to revive as a human on the condition she learn about the emotion of love on Valentine's Day.
'Cowboy' Troy is a mute child who lives with his alcoholic father in an isolated cabin. His Spaghetti Western fantasies come to life when he encounters Angel, an outlaw on the run from her psycho partner, Kane. Can Troy and Angel's unlikely partnership help them escape their tormentors?
Set in a satirical vision of modern Britain, Hadrian is a young and ambitious civil servant who arranges to receive Greek lessons in preparation for a government promotion which will see him steer British economic policy throughout Greece. But when he meets his teacher Maria, she asks that instead of payment, Hadrian exchanges an hour of his time each week to help her prepare for a citizenship exam that offers potential promotion from Class B to Class A immigrant.
Franklin Matthews relives the heartbreak of being stood up for his high school’s segregated prom the night of his daughter's prom.
After being informed of her sterilization, Eva is faced with the life altering decision of joining a fierce Chicana attorney and nine other women in a lawsuit against the hospital.
A disillusioned twenty-something woman spontaneously gets a job babysitting a precocious nine year old, but not everything is as it seems.
Early dialogue free short by Bent Hamer.
In a rut and desperate for the passion they once had, Emma does her best to coach Kevin through an incredibly awkward dinner party with three friends they've lost touch with.
Ben is a middle-aged diver, William is a teenager. Their world will connect for a time suspended moment, they will let go through their sorrow under the music’s salvating and liberating flow.