At the shore of Slowdive Bay, grocery store owner Howard rescues Yilly who ventures into the sea, having just broken up with her partner. Thence she spends her days waiting for the rare marine phenomenon called “sea sparkle.” Days turn into weeks and then months for these two strangers, each with their own pasts, trapped in an indefinite wait. Eventually, they will have to decide on a life ahead, and whether to let go of the past.
Aaron Chow
Howard
Jasmine Leung Kin-Yi
Yilly
At the shore of Slowdive Bay, grocery store owner Howard rescues Yilly who ventures into the sea, having just broken up with her partner. Thence she spends her days waiting for the rare marine phenomenon called “sea sparkle.” Days turn into weeks and then months for these two strangers, each with their own pasts, trapped in an indefinite wait. Eventually, they will have to decide on a life ahead, and whether to let go of the past.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.