A semi-autobiographical story of a desperate and seemingly narcissistic young man living in Tehran, who expects more from life than it can offer. He hopelessly keeps trying to reconnect with the world around him, his lover, and his friends, but at the same time keeps a detachment. Eventually he finds himself in the middle of an uprising and must face questions of the self, solitude, and universal fate.
A semi-autobiographical story of a desperate and seemingly narcissistic young man living in Tehran, who expects more from life than it can offer. He hopelessly keeps trying to reconnect with the world around him, his lover, and his friends, but at the same time keeps a detachment. Eventually he finds himself in the middle of an uprising and must face questions of the self, solitude, and universal fate.
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.