A Comorian village. Djibril spends his frees time taking care of an abandoned villa. While he is busy there, his cabin catches fire. Homeless, he must find a place to live.
Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river that goes nowhere, they meet for the first time. Neither one knows that the other loves them.
Wajdi and Maia are spending their last days together before Wajdi travels to a new start away from the Lebanese situation.
A family that lives apart goes looking for a house to live with.
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
One last thing to share down at the river.
A Puppet has a comically bad day in Melbourne.
A homeless couple looks for a way to get ahead, working and making an effort, while trying to overcome their past.
A disturbed single mother confronts a mysterious stranger and the echoes of her past to protect her home.
Rhea is a 24-year-old woman who has just moved into a new house with her husband. Over the course of 10 years she will have three different partners with whom she will experience three moves in different parts of the world. In the intimacy of a universal living room, the viewer will experience the passage of time and how the protagonist is getting rid of many material belongings. Her relationships seem very volatile and light. However, a novel written by her first love will endure in time amidst so much personal and material rupture.
In the inflation era, Jacob, who recently got kicked out, is desperate to find a home, when landing on a cheap listing he doesn’t read the fine print, unknowing what he got himself into.
15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: Cristina ran away from home, is a drug addict and has a 2-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. Overwhelmed by guilt, Luiza attempts to save her daughter
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.
Calgary
When a young movie star is forced to transform his looks and personality for the marketing of his latest project, he slowly begins to lose himself. On the night of the premiere, he finally hits rock bottom. Two months later, his girlfriend, co-star, and manager look back on that turbulent period, trying to piece together what really happened.
The film follows an architecture graduate as she reflects on the meaning of home and the labor of making home. Architecture is framed beyond the physical built object: as a second skin that stretches and reconfigures itself as she, too, stretches to be in a new place. The film moves through themes of migration, womanhood, and what it means to be an architect without building, still making architecture constantly, just through different forms.
A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored away as a symbolic object. He goes to find it and unearth it. A return to the lost childhood in which his first creative impulses took root.
When Asriel, a painting art school graduate, is diagnosed with dementia at a shockingly young age, he and his photographer partner Iris must attempt to find meaning in the time they have left.
Mila, a 12-year-old rebellious girl has a secret crush on her 40 year old neighbour and coach, Sam. When Mila finds out that he's moving away to Italy for at least a year, she conceives the plan to go with him.