Set in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. One night, they pull a consequential prank on their Principal, which leads to a surveillance system being installed in their school.

On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowners table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion. One smoke column is the result of an overnight fire that has damaged the masters outbuildings. The second column rises from the wooded edge of the village, sent up by newcomers to announce their presence. In the minds of the wary villagers a mere coincidence of events appears to be unlikely, with violent confrontation looming as the unavoidable outcome. Meanwhile, another newcomer has recently been spotted taking careful notes and making drawings of the land. It is his presence more than any other that will threaten the villages entire way of life.

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A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his fathers death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.

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A 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

August 19, 2023. Childhood friends Sano and Miyata visit a resort hotel in Izu, searching for a lost red hat while revisiting places where Sano first met and fell in love with his late wife Nagi five years prior.

In post one-child policy China, a middle-class family takes in their only son's mysterious new friend. This triggers buried family tensions as secrets and feelings surface, testing the bonds and expectations holding the family tog...

Five young mothers living in a shelter strive for a better future for themselves and kids amidst challenging upbringings.

Aya leads an everyday life in Tozeur, a region in southern Tunisia. After a tragic accident in which she is the sole survivor, Aya leaves her previous life behind and embarks on a journey in which she reinvents herself in Tunis. However, her new life is threatened when she becomes a crucial witness to a police accident. Written by Jakkepoes