Summer 2025, Italy, Hou begins her diary. Combining her notes and elegant still shots, she documents the places, the strangeness, and all that distances her from her native China. Her mother’s voice, her orders, and even the ideograms evaporate: Cassine, cinema and English become refuges, new spaces for creation, memory and life.
Summer 2025, Italy, Hou begins her diary. Combining her notes and elegant still shots, she documents the places, the strangeness, and all that distances her from her native China. Her mother’s voice, her orders, and even the ideograms evaporate: Cassine, cinema and English become refuges, new spaces for creation, memory and life.
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.
Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow villagers come to regard him as a clairvoyant. Can Shu genuinely see into the future? Is he actually just a basket case? Or is he perhaps more lucid than he seems, and pulling a fast one on everyone?
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
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.
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.