Satoshi returns to Taketomi Island to take part in his grandmother's 97th birthday 'mandala' party, a special celebration that's unique to this island. Just as he arrives at her house, he learns that she has just passed away. The next day from his grandmother's diary, they discover a long kept secret...
An old man needs a plastic toilet stool by the bed at night, but the health center can't deliver it, so the old man has to pick it up by himself.
A boy walks through a Carnival fair at night, lost in thought, his only friend, the Moon.
An experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in monologues performed by actors and adapted from interviews with ordinary Italian gay men. A multicolored kaleidoscopic journey through a varied and multi-faceted aspect of the human experience that is rarely represented on the big screen
A young boy and his young sister are playing on a rubbish dump, acting out their parents' divorce. For this they use their father's things which their mother brought to the dumping ground out of anger. The girl only wants to use their fathers things, but the boy finds something that he finds much more interesting.
Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm in 1917. They both have lost a dream, and they start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through the city.
In 1966, Helen Reddy landed in New York with her three year old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.
In a country where everyone conceals their true face behind a mask, two children living in such a country fall in love. One of them breaks the prohibition to show thier face, The other did not have that courage. Those who have broken the prohibition must fight to the death. Whoever survives shall receive a reward.
Mitsuo the Counselor's son marries writer Miyoko, however a tender romance blossoms between Miyoko and Mitsuo's sister Kaoru. When the family falls to bankruptcy, heartache ensues; Miyoko's illness worsens and she is sent to a sanatorium, separating the lovers. Based on a story from Tales of Flowers by Nobuko Yoshiya
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two Moorish homosexuals to burn at the stake.
A teen boy living in a small town on the Belgian coast finds his ordinary life take an unexpected turn when a handsome traveler blows through town.
Three 20-year-old-men visit Seoul after their college entrance exam ends. They expect to have some fun with gay people in Itaewon. Meanwhile, in Jongno, two gay men, Han-jae and Ji-hoon, struggle to solve their problems.
A graffiti artist in his early 20s, begins a 3½ year prison sentence for vandalism. He must attempt to cope with the struggles of his new life on the inside: sharing a cell with an aggressive murderer, being moved to high security, living 23 hours a day alone. An unlikely allay soon teaches him how to survive. Questions then begin to arise. Who can he trust? Will he ever find solace?
The day begins with an exchange of favours. An interview, a football game, cigarettes after cigarettes. Routine fragments of those who live in an isolated space which labels and conditions life choices.
Eden, a young man, makes his first steps on stage as a drag queen. During a crucial day, he learns to let go of his insecurities.
Sixteen year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favorite pop star in concert with his two best friends. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favorite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic mother and eccentric gran.
Introducing Horsin Dickler, who introduces the fundamental concepts surrounding the idea of explicit television.
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
“Relationship Killers” is a dark, character driven, romantic suspense thriller about two women with a dark secret. They are nearing the end of their second year of marriage, and though they still love each other, the excitement of being newlyweds is starting to wear off. Now they are stuck with the knowledge of each other’s hot button locations and areas of sensitivities while growing increasingly fed up with each other’s idiosyncrasies.
Aryam receives a call from her employer, asking her to care for someone on her day off. Aryam reluctantly agrees, as it was her late father's birthday and she had plans. Aryam arrives at the Boyle's home and is faced by comments judging her ethnicity and religious attire, as she is a Muslim who always wears a headscarf. As Boyle's comments turn more discriminatory and reveal his disgust about his foreign neighbours, Aryam's patience reaches breaking point and she considers calling her employer to leave caring duties; however Aryam decides to stay put. Boyle lets slip his son ran away with an Asian woman, the reason for his discriminatory views, and Aryam reaches an understanding. Boyle's son's birthday was on this day too, and Aryam wonders if Boyle's son might be her father. Aryam decides to look after Boyle with greater affection, and offers to bake a cake for Boyle's son's birthday. She wheels him outside for the first time in several years, Boyle no longer alone.