The Christmas Gift 2018
A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.
A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.
When two outsiders arrive on an isolated intentional community, seventeen-year old Anahita begins to question her role at home, and what a future out in the world-at-large could be.
A young bride tasked with the trivial errands for her in-laws whilst her husband is in Greece, stumbles across a dead woman’s body whilst fetching the water from the fountain. Pushed to the side both the in-laws proceed to talk to the local news lying about finding the body and revelling in the attention they’re getting. A battle amongst the villagers to get coverage in the news ensues, and the actual crime itself becomes overshadowed. We see the young bride coveting the hair slide from the victim.
Amador seems to be the perfect husband and doting father. Nobody would ever imagine that, on one fateful afternoon, Amador is about to lose everything for wanting to be just himself. He wants to try something new on his son's birthday and it all goes terribly wrong.
What do you do when your friends don't think you have what it takes to ride with them?
There's nothing you can't tell your mother.
1990 was the year the first letter was written. Through the writings of a broken woman, from this letter and the others that followed, the puzzle of a fragmented mind is built. Clinging to the memories that haunted and comforted her, she tries to rebuild her broken identity, confessing her most secret thoughts to the great loves that she has lost: her husband and her daughter.
An unknown couple in the same bed
Motomiya, an older Japanese man, narrates the story of his life in Tokyo with Raquel, a university student from Spain, several decades his junior. He calls Raquel his "Typhoon" and as they travel through the fast moving city together, her explosive love for life reminds Motomiya that joy can be found in even the smallest of tasks.
Paquita, an old woman with an innocent and endearing appearance, is not willing to sit idly by when her lifelong banker announces that she has lost her savings due to having purchased “apparently” safe financial products... Products offered by himself!
In a small Belarusian village where time seems to stand still, Jasja must deal with her mother's death. She takes every duty upon herself to fill the void a mother has left behind. Someone must hold the pieces together. Still, her father decides to send her to an orphanage with the promise of returning. When he fails to show up, she decides to run away and go back home instead.
After midnight, Lena (37) scared and fleeing, meets Genti (11) in an underpass at the center of the city. After they get to know each other, they talk about the reasons of them being there.
"Love" portraits a mid life crisis of a 40 year old man recently separated from his wife who goes back to his country in search of a change and of himself.
The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.
After being discouraged by his aunt, Leo contradicts her expectations and tries to fight for a place in the local football team trials.
A girl. A boy. A challenge. If we play the repeating game, how far would you go?
With her boyfriend arrested for drug dealing, Carla, 8 month pregnant, spends her days at the jail door. As the days go by, an unlikely relationship eventually emerges, putting everything in question.
Rosa is an exhausted mother of a newborn baby and an owner of a village hairdressing salon. One day, a beautiful young widow Ines returns to the village and asks for a job in the salon.