Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.
A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her from her coffin. Things, of course, are not what they seem.
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
A joyful young woman spends her day doing errands for a friend's house party, where she meets a charming young man who sees through her endearing disguise.
'Tom' from Birmingham, 22, - who did not wish to reveal his real name - had a traumatic childhood as his mother suffered from untreated mental illnesses including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), anorexia, and depression.
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.
19-year-old college student suffering from mental health issues finds solace in music, but when the guitar that he order broken, he must discover what happened to himself.
Phil, a teenager, disappears and his friend Danny talks to people in town in an attempt to locate him. Danny learns that Phil was under enormous stress from his parents, football coach and teachers.
A young man looks for a way out
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
A distraught squatter tries to cope with his werewolf nature through drugs and music.
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
Álvaro has long felt that his life has lost all meaning. Just as chaos threatens to overwhelm him, a mysterious young woman appears, offering what might be his last hope.
Ahmet is a young man struggling with inner conflicts and loneliness; while planning to end his life, a potted flower and his memories accompany him in his search for meaning. At the same time, Umay, reading a book that uncovers secrets about her mother's past, receives Ahmet's letter. This letter takes Umay on a profound journey of reflection and establishes an unexpected connection between two different lives.
After a failed attempt to connect with his son, Andrés confronts an entity that feeds from his loneliness.
Amidst cityscapes, an experimental short film unravels a woman's exploration of inner pain.
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.