"When will you accept yourself?"
Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.
Social & External
Trevor
Seb
Clarissa
Mitch
Alex
Connor
Nathan
Lewis
A masseuse's journey to find the human touch.
"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, the Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Set 6 months before the events of "The Gifted", Barbara and Vicky find themselves in Las Vegas to clean up loose ends of the past, propelling them toward their fate that is foreseen by a woman named Chica.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
The relationship between an embittered farm woman and her orphaned niece reaches a breaking point in this dark, psychological pastoral.
Plastic artist Leo invites young Dante to his art studio and proposes a peculiar game to leave all tension behind.
Javier leaves work after a hard night's work, his body tired and his mind still spinning with worry and exhaustion. The walk home is a long one, but he takes advantage of it to talk to his mother, as he usually does whenever he has a free moment. They talk about how he did at work, about simple things, about the family and about what they have to do in the next few days.
As young children, Otto and Ana become best friends, leading to the marriage of Ana's mother to Otto's father. When Otto and Ana become teenagers, they begin a sexual relationship, which they hide from their parents. The two fall deeply in love and seem destined to spend the rest of their lives together. However, their relationship is tested when Otto's mother dies and the two are separated.
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.