Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”
An OFW returns home with her mother to fulfill a promise made for his father.
A brother and sister search for their grandfather's old home.
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, D.C.
Short film featuring the extended version of the song “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift. A troubled couple's romance blossoms before it eventually falls apart.
Aranís, a college student (20), suffers from severe anxiety caused by traumatic experiences from her childhood, specifically a sexual assault. She reunites with her abuser (27), triggering a panic attack that consumes her.
Assaf, a cynical boy frustrated by the death of his older brother Uri in Lebanon, refuses to join his family for the Memorial Day ceremony. Out of his longing, he has imaginary conversations with Uri.
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Young Xime hopes to restore her grieving family by arranging a Día de Los Muertos altar...meanwhile a looming presence closes in.
After being rejected for a film role, a stage actor leaves Seoul to visit a friend and, in his travels, winds up getting involved with two women.
Bound by unspoken grief, reclusive 91-year-old Stan and his young carer find unexpected solace on the windswept plains of a once-bustling WWII airfield, where memory still lingers.
Christmas Eve, 1995. Two best friends meet up to spend their holidays together after a long period of absence. Whilst reminiscing about the coming of age in late 1950s Zagreb, they remember a mysterious woman they both fell in love with during that time.
Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.
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Tulus, a quiet 13-year-old boy, diligently attends Tahlilan (religious gatherings) in his village at the invitation of his uncle. Since his father's death, Tulus has often felt lonely. His mother works late into the night to make ends meet, leaving their home often lonely. Therefore, Tahlilan (religious gatherings) has become the only time Tulus can feel together and try to fill the emptiness in his heart.
The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.
Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.
Landscapes change with time; people don't. I try to expose the solipsism of lower Appalachian life in this day and age.