From Focus Features comes Africa First: Volume One, a joyous collection of innovative and original short films from around the African continent. This anthology comprises four films: The Abyss Boys (Jan-Hendrik Beetge), The Tunnel (Jenna Cato Bass), St. Louis Blues (Dyana Gaye) and Pumzi (Wanuri Kahiu).
Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would prefer him to be involved in more ‘manly’ pursuits and decides to take action. It is left to Mickey, a ferret with the cutest nose and the sharpest teeth, to sort out the men from the boys.
Para Dos
A couple, wants to realize their dream of having a child with a Ukrainian surrogate mother - and then the war comes.
Five young adults struggle, each with their own unique passage through the challenges of adulthood in a small suburban town in Sweden.
A comedy writer experiencing a fallow period goes home for the weekend in the hopes that the complicated relationship she has with her mother will be the spark to her creativity needed to finish a script that is due.
人非草木
Astrid, Elli and Isabella go camping together as they used to. However, not only because Elli has breast cancer, nothing is like it used to be. Only when Astrid steals the savings of a man who has died in an accident the three leave old habits to renew their friendship in Italy.
The story of a man who lost his family in an amusement park.
Quarentena da mente
Two conspiracy theorists enlist the aid of an expert to interpret some confidential information.
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
While retracing his late-brother's footsteps through the Florida Keys, a sheltered young man stumbles upon the secret estate of a narcissistic recluse.
For the past six years, a desperate mother and her husband have been trying to locate their only daughter who is in the clutches of a ruthless wandering Romani musician. Will the miracle-working Virgin Mary reunite her with her family?
The terrifying daring escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who used creativity and courage to escape from slavery in 1849.
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
A 65-year-old man in search of his lady friend, whom he left behind in his hometown when he was 19 years old, discovers the different forms people's eternal longing for love takes and how it seeps into their daily lives.
After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live with her mother Haruka, who works as a stripper in Asakusa. Having been separated from her mother since elementary school, Natsumi initially finds it difficult to connect and often clashes with her. However, as time goes on, she begins to understand and accept her mother's unconventional lifestyle."
Kora and his brother Onan gather four men to go on a gaur hunt in order to make some quick money. Their journey progresses through their dreams, desires, fears, fantasies and struggles. Distanced from their families and loved ones, sharing stories help them remember and appreciate their inescapable pasts and make bonds. When the real and imagined nature turn out to be larger than their will and strength could handle, they learn the harsh realities of the endeavor they have taken up.