Saki receives a sudden phone call from a pay phone. The call is from her father who lives far away. Eventually, they reunite and exchange their feelings, both in a clumsy way. This is a story about one ordinary night for a pair of ordinary father and daughter.
Three factory workers in the countryside lead ordinary lives, marked by the melancholy of everyday life and by small, meaningful gestures. A slice-of-life film about the beauty and sadness in the most inconspicuous moments.
Bendeyar
Bryan comes into town to visit his dying Father for the last time and encounters an abused woman at his High School reunion. He falls for her and tries to get her out of the abusive relationship she's in.
A story about a high school girl in a rural area. She has just reached an age where boys come to matter. One particular boy catches her eye and possibly her heart when her family decides to marry her off to a rich older man who can pay for her mother healthcare.
Omar (Faizal Hussien), head of Kampung Tuan Tunggal who has two wives namely Seri and Chempaka. Both are so obedient to Omar. The story begins when Omar collects monthly taxes at Wan Manap's house.Omar understands the ill-fated Wan Manap and is no longer able to work. And there is also Omar who is familiar with Wan Manap's daughter, Wan Embong (Neelofa). Wan Embong is a high school graduate and unmarried girl. Omar continues to express his desire to marry Wan Embong and Wan Manap no longer have to pay monthly taxes.
In the poorest section of the city lives Nell, who spends her days at her grandfather's bird store, finding constant delight in the companionship of her feathered friends. One day Nell's grandfather is run over by a car driven by Mr. Morris, a millionaire, who offers to purchase a bullfinch at a large price in order to forestall a damage suit.
Gladiola
John Wheeler (Warren Cook) gets himself in some financial hot water and needs to prove that he is half owner of some land in Canada. But the only person with a copy of the deed is Jean Corteau (Edwin Carewe, who also directed), and Corteau has gone up to the property and decided to claim all of it for himself.
A South Korean mother and daughter are in London (UK) for 10-year-old Hyun-ah’s ballet tour. Hyun-ah wants to be free from her mother’s pressure, neither of them understand each other. Tension simmers as events unfold before, during and after a show.
Paroled after serving four years in prison for armed robbery, James Winton returns home to his wife and father to make amends. However, when James is implicated in the recent murders of old acquaintances, the police detective who put him away last time is determined to make him pay at any cost.
François, a young thirty-year-old Asian, has not been back in his family for 10 years after a violent dispute with his father Meng. Since then, he has always tried to avoid questions about his origins, until he lies to believe that he has been adopted. But when he learns that he is going to be a father, he realizes that he will have to reconnect with his past and his origins. Pushed by his companion Sophie, he decides to reconnect with his family and returns to his XIIIth native district to announce the good news, accompanied by his best friend Bruno. François is welcomed with open arms by his family, with the exception of his father and his younger brother. The return to his community is not going to be so simple .
Sin
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
A Woman's Autumn
Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vignettes, drawing on an ad-hoc 'video diary' aesthetic but in fact painstakingly directed, intertwine reality with fantasy thanks to a script devised by Emma Forrest that confuses fiction with reality.
WET HEAT pays homage to the spy genre as Teenape is sprung from prison to track down the kidnapped "President of Show Business" before all of Hollywood crumbles!
A lunatic crashes a theater's midnight Troma marathon.