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American Kensho is a series about Buddhist practitioners in genre situations, often also involving queer relationships and the insights of queer theory. American Kensho: Manifest Destiny, the first film in this series, is a horror/thriller piece where Sarah, our Zen Buddhist protagonist, and Julia, her pagan lover, battle with mindfulness and magic an oppressive cult attempting to assault their very souls. The writer/director provides a disclaimer for the viewer that while xyr personal Zen Buddhist practice guides the production of this ongoing project, it is an attempt to sort out the relationship of that practice to the world, and does not comprise any sort of Buddhist teaching in itself.

The cadet boy goes home and falls asleep on the train on the way. People notice this and ask not to make any noise so that the boy can sleep.

After the mysterious disappearance of his mother, Elliot struggles to find a new family dynamic, while dealing with his grandpa's crazy antics and theories.

Juan and Ismael are great friends, they work in a corralón in Moreno. Riding the truck they go through the winter and live with the harshness of work, they do it with humor, sometimes helped by alcohol. Friendship is a difficult wall to break between them. Juan, drives the truck and lives surrounded by dogs, Ismael, loads the truck and dreams of having money.

A penniless hermit, a straight-laced telemarketer, and a sinister astronaut road trip their way across the country.

When Miro returns home at the end of World War II he finds his land taken, his people gone, his daughter stolen and his service record treated with contempt. But the battlefield has taught him how to fight and he sets out to reunite his family waging his own form of justice.

Anna and Ira prank a local woman by writing her letters from a secret admirer. The prank takes a more serious turn when the local women goes missing.

Isolated in her room, a girl marks the passage of time, waiting for a special day.

Two Muslim sisters and their family must cope with the eldest daughter's leukemia diagnosis and her decisions about life and death.

The stories narrated by the film bring together individuals all over the world, spanning over sixty years and thus symbolically covering the approximate period of a single human life. Each of the stories is based on true accounts and events, summed up from newspaper articles, statements, and media announcements. Through internal monologues the collage makes up a whole which transcends any individual story.

A ride to the country could turn in more than just a simple vacation for a mother and daughter.

Run is a dramatic thriller following Levi, a young businessman who marries the love of his life, Natalie Winters (Taylor Murphy), a passionate journalist who reports on human trafficking and fights to expose it. On their wedding night Natalie is kidnapped and in the process to be sold into sex slavery. Levi goes on the hunt for his wife, chasing clues wherever he can find them, leading him to Jeff Conners (Stephen Baldwin) a crime lord with no mercy. Will Levi be able to find his wife before she is sent to Florida and sold in Cuba? Only with the help of God can Levi find the strength to fight.

Far From the Tree is the story of a strained relationship between a mother and her teenaged son, as she struggles to come to terms with a sexual assault from her past and how she ultimately finds the courage to confront it.

An open ended conversation of Black singles about dating in Atlanta about the pitfalls and possibilities for them. Six stereotypes are embodied in individuals at the table. Unrealistic expectations are discussed and analyzed. Real examples of situations and dynamics in relationships are highlighted.

"It’s remarkably contagious thinking about how much I’m willing to belong to the ones I love," says Tennis frontwoman Alaina Moore in this beautiful short-film, 'Interiors', which features music from the band’s 'Yours Conditionally’ album, and was created in collaboration with Vinyl Me, Please.

David is a 24-year-old artist and a master of dating and romantic relationships. He interacts with various women, including Maria, a model, with whom he falls in love. Realizing who she is dealing with, Maria rejects David's love. The pain caused by his rejected love reminds the hero of his lost love, Anahit, from the past. In order not to lose Maria, David struggles with his past, resists the temptations of girls, and develops a plan for implementation, which took him four years and an isolated life.

A traveller maintains her faith in a long forgotten ritual. She has searched and found the missing article to complete the ceremony for the Calling of the Congress.

A broken man falls into the path of revenge. At the moment of redemption he understands something greater.

Gabrielle is a successful attorney, married to an adoring husband and mother to a beautiful college age daughter. Yet Gabrielle is haunted by a ghost of her past. Her life unravels when she prosecutes a man who could possibly be her son.

The lives of Nick, Avery, Walter, Chief Payne, Kelly Smith, and a few new characters are brought to the forefront a decade after the original 'Clancy' storyline ended.

Auer was Austria's best boxer. An idol for a whole generation, but those days are long gone. Overcome by guilt due to the tragic death of his wife and daughter, he was forced to turn his back on the limelight. Now he gets the chance to face his inner demons and fight for a title again. An opportunity he cannot pass up. Before him stands a Russian boxing champion, who wants to fight for his place at the top without regard for losses. Will Auer emerge victorious from the fight of his life?

17-year-old Coco wants to become famous. She goes to each audition, but is rejected time and again. On her YouTube channel, she creates a fictional world in which everything is perfect and her self-confidence is based on likes and followers.

Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?

When a swimmer becomes famous for his epic and social commitment: the story of Leo Callone, swimmer able to cross the English channel, to travel around the world twice and builds a hospital in Guatemala in memory of his son.

Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.

An actor is paid by a tenacious woman to act as her boyfriend at her boss' retirement party, however his actual girlfriend's presence at the event complicates the plan.

Sissel, a single mother, celebrates her son's 18th birthday. But the evening doesn't go as planned when their guest arrives.

Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.

A man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV Test.

On a cold Bogotan morning, a young photographer anxiously waits for someone at his flat. Deafened by the traffic noise, he sits and smokes while intimate memories come back as he watches some old photos he had kept hidden for a while. Joyful and sad, carnal and usual memories that fluster him as time goes by. Meanwhile, a telephone rings insistently, which he picks but gets no answer, making him even more nervous. Then, the door opens.

After a tragedy, a father and son struggle to connect. Looking for answers in the stars, the boy, Isaac, begins searching through his attic for supplies to build an interstellar radio. As Isaac progresses towards his goal, both father and son are forced to confront their mutual loss.

A phone has fallen in love with his owner. But she does not live as he wishes. He is confused, but continues to love her.

Paul is here. Like a step backwards, like a ghost knocking at the door. He is here, and his annoying presence will disrupt Jeanne's everyday life.

A filmmaker revisits the town of Tayug, Pangasinan in preparation for a new feature film she is making about the folk hero Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931. As she revisits the actual sites in Tayug where the infamous uprising had taken place, she imagines scenes in her new film about the subject. As she goes deeper in her research at Tayug, she uncovers the memories of the townspeople about Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931.

Craving for love and excitement, Sierra seeks out her childhood crush, through whom she starts to deal with the loss of her brother. But bringing the past into the present isn’t as easy as she would’ve thought.

Two young women are about to receive the great honor of being sacrificed to their Mexica gods; but the cruel and bloody ritual does not go as expected.

The courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.

After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s pick-up truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation.

A work of fiction, the film is developed from the life of – and starring – a real woman, Pia, who is intellectually disabled. Pia is 60 years old and she lives in rural Denmark in the care of her mother Guittou, 84. In the story, Guittou is getting old, and Pia worries about what will happen when her mother dies. She is afraid of being left alone. Although Pia has never had a boyfriend, she thinks that she needs to find a man to love in order to survive. Then Pia meets a man called Jens at the harbour. Pia embarks on a quiet and simple relationship with him, not realising that in the meantime it is her mother who is left alone.

Portuguese short-film.

A 12-year-old XiaoJing survives a car accident unscathed. She bravely deals with the trepidation alone, until her father rushes to the hospital. She thought that her anxieties and emotional injuries could be alleviated, but is forced to face a more severe difficulty.

Claudia and Martín have been looking for him for years. Days pass and the relationship deteriorates until an unexpected event revives it: Martín meets a couple who has it.

A 20-something woman gets invited to her ex-girlfriend's wedding to a man and decides to go.

Follow struggling photographer Eddie through a regular morning in the town of Rockville Maryland

On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.

This multi-layered story inspired by Nina Simone's "Four Women" spans one day in the lives of four different women connected by their quest for love, agency, and redemption.

Buenos Aires. Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle. Through the dense vegetation of the forest, Archie tracks ants back to their nest. One of them wanders off course and comes across Canh, a Filipino, sitting on top of a giant heap of earth and who is about to go back to his strange, beautiful home town, where he too has a miserable job.

The life of María, abused by her father and sold to a human trafficking network that exploits her and forces her into prostitution.

A tenacious lover and his reticent boyfriend are forced to push the limits of their long distance relationship.

When Alex, a precious nine-year-old boy, develops a crush on Jared, the moody twenty-five-year-old handyman who works in the mansion where he lives, he will stop at nothing to get his attention.

Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.

From celebrated author Janette Oke comes a rigorous and romantic adventure as epic as the wide frontier. Erin Krakow , Daniel Lissing, Jack Wagner and Lori Loughlin star in When Calls the Heart: The Heart of the Community. The arrival of the railroad brings growing pains for Hope Valley, and Elizabeth finds she doesn't have enough school supplies for all of her students. Rosemary helps her settle on the idea of a carnival to raise funds. But also "helping" is Ray Wyatt, the railroad representative, who launches a campaign to replace Elizabeth as Hope Valley's schoolteacher! Meanwhile, Abigail tries to find a balance between good business and what's good for the town, and Frank, Bill and Jack find their hands full after the Tate brothers break out of jail…and begin their own campaign to rob the bank!

A young woman struggles to recover from an ex-lover's attack. Escaping through books and imagination, she wanders around her favorite park to seek solace.

A young girl on the brink of puberty wakes up one morning to find that her pet dog had escaped, leaving her with a wound in her vagina.

A man lives in alcoholic isolation high up on a mountain in the north of Sweden. A strange presence in the form of a young man haunts the loner. Is the young man real, or just an image from the past? In flashbacks the story unfolds.