Three characters from various regions in the Middle East seek to find peace of mind by challenging their contrasting political and personal identities before an act of senseless violence brings them together.
Social & External
Leila (as May El Calamawy)
Avi
Sonia
It's the run up to prom night for Leila and her friends in the Garw Valley. With money tight, and the pressures of the cost of living weighing heavy on her shoulders, will it stop Leila's celebration?
A young girl spends her first Christmas without her late mother. However, her grandad is determined to make it a Christmas to remember - but will it be?
Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.
The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.
Olia and Zina are sisters. Olia has a husband and children. Zina has a parrot and a cat. Olia moved to Germany, she couldn’t handle her mother who was dying of terminal illness. Zina has left her art career and dedicated herself to mother. Both of the women suffer from insults, innuendos, and self-reproaches. They’re parted by borders and social status. But there’s still something that urges them to arrange a meeting, even if a meeting is going to be virtual. And there’s still something that saves them from tragedy that is about to occur during their meetings.
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
Two desperate pioneer women escape together across the midwestern desert in 1848.
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
It is 1941. It is winter. The sky is grey and a mist hangs over a typical small fishing town on the Atlantic coast of France. But things are not what they seem, and when something strange and beautiful washes up on the shore their lives will change forever.
Esther, a highly anxious 23-year-old, has accepted a second date with Romeo, her colleague at the Temple de la Gaufre.
An unexpected encounter, an uncertain ending...
Burgundy, France, end of 1945. On the day of his 15th birthday, Louis receives a very special gift from his uncle Jules, who decides to take his nephew to his favorite brothel in an attempt to let him explore his new life as a grown-up man. Through the evening’s bittersweet encounters, Louis discovers the adult world in all its complexity and cruelty.
The scattered families gather and visit their mother.
Summer vacation of the last year of high school, Yu-na and He-yoon go to Incheon, deceiving their parents to go to a rock festival. However, the concert which they want to see is postponed until the following day. They have no choice but to book tickets for tomorrow and decide to spend one more day in Incheon. The next day, the tickets that Yu-na definitely held in her hand the previous day disappear. He-yoon contacts her cousin to borrow money…
A man who can't even grasp his reality and just flirt with it. a woman who struggles gently to marry him. Why, on earth, is she obsessed with him?
Han-sung runs into his ex-girlfriend Soo-young after taking a year off from university. Unfortunately she has a new boyfriend Se-won, who is a director of a graduation film which Han-sung is supporting.
On an ordinary day, Yoon-jin(26) finds Ji-hoon(14) crouching down on a stair in the hallway in front of her house.
Su-min and Young-ho are a friend of long standing. young-ho had has one sided love to su-min heard she was proposed by one of her senior who used to have good feelings to each other. He decides to make perfume which contained memories of her and send her recording tape composed by himself.
Hyeong-seo is Hyun-ji's groom-to-be. He quarrels with the issues related to marriage preparations and raises voice. Seol-won who was Hyun-ji's ex-boyfriend get angry to find him badly treating her.
