Voicemails
Through a series of escalating voicemail messages, the sonic journey of a mother-son relationship is traversed. As she cycles through a deluge of conflicting emotions, images of a dingy apartment are slowly revealed to haunting effect.
Through a series of escalating voicemail messages, the sonic journey of a mother-son relationship is traversed. As she cycles through a deluge of conflicting emotions, images of a dingy apartment are slowly revealed to haunting effect.
Karen Tan Bee Lin
Through a series of escalating voicemail messages, the sonic journey of a mother-son relationship is traversed. As she cycles through a deluge of conflicting emotions, images of a dingy apartment are slowly revealed to haunting effect.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.