Five individual stories are connected to each other in the basis of their nature. Actually the Dark Side of the capital Dhaka, has been sketched throughout the film. What happens over our eyes in the dark of the night.
A family deals with the suicide of their eldest son.
In a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.
Farhaz, a top chef from Bangladesh, and Basundhara, a middle-class Indian woman who runs a home catering service, come together as they share a common passion—food.
The story is based on the dominance of gangsters in Dhaka during 1982-1996.
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
Young Sigi Nelson came to Bangladesh from Switzerland. When he came, he used to travel around the country with his familiar rust. It was once known that Sigi grew up in Switzerland but was born in Bangladesh. Sigi has come to the country to find his past. A search of the past reveals an unknown chapter in Sigi’s life.
Ayna is an actor, and the prison is his stage. Unable to pursue his passion in a rigid society, he turns real life into his theater—taking money from the powerful to serve their prison sentences in their place. Everything changes when he falls for the girl next door, inspiring him to pull off one final swap and leave the dark trade forever. But his last performance plunges him deep into a treacherous rabbit hole. To survive a merciless system and break free from a criminal game he helped build, this underdog must execute the ultimate escape.
The word kewaaj (কেওয়াজ) is colloquially used to explain chaos, noisiness or annoyance. "Kewaaj" is an audiovisual attempt to give you a glimpse into how the people of Dhaka function in one of the most unliveable cities, according to the Global Liveability Index.
Two artists go out to train, they don't fit the standards of their neighborhood, their city, or their imposing culture.
Partoyo, a big-time businessman, abandons his family because of work. A sociopolitical snapshot of Jakarta in the changing governance.
Every evening, Eugène Fortin becomes Madame Simone, to the delight of club-goers around town. His flamboyant costumes, a pastiche of many styles, give him the look of a clown from the end of the last century. One day, Madame Simone hears a voice urging him to go to the Wigstock festival in New York: a gathering dear to both transvestites and wig fans.
An underprivileged hairdresser becomes the game changer in a local body election in a village where caste politics rules the roost. Will he be able to bring some changes to people's lives?
In this poetic, fragmented portrait set in rural Oregon, three white millennials struggle to come to terms with their increasing sense of alienation from contemporary society. Their despair leads them to confront their perceived adversities in the most terrible way imaginable. A searing critique of white American values, KIN invites its viewers to contemplate the troubled and long-brewing reality of Trump's America.
The surreal world of two lovers contemplating love in the bedroom and beyond.
Rigodon follows the spiritual journey's of three Filipino immigrants in New York City whose lives intertwine in the age of racial profiling and government crackdowns.
The lives of six individuals across the city change just as the city is reeling under floods. Will they all make it safely to the other side?
The manager of the Belarusian collective farm Naideika Krasovich, inspired by the award at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition for the high flax harvest, gives her word to double the harvest. Many fellow villagers doubt her success, and only Grigory Pavlovich, the new director of MTS, who left his family in the city and came to the village at the call of the party, provides Nadeika with all kinds of support and excessive attention, because he loves and, it seems, is loved. In parallel to this story, a plot develops about the love of the tractor driver Zosya for the forester Yanka, who unrequitedly suffers for Nadeyka.
Jiahua, Jiang Nan, Ah Wen, and Ai Lun were college classmates many years ago and were close couples. Nan suffered from a speech impediment, and Jiahua, far from minding her limitations, was drawn to her innocence and affability. However, years later, Jiahua's relationship with Nan has long since fizzled out, primarily due to Nan's sudden dropout from school and subsequent lack of contact. In contrast, Ah Wen and Ai Lun remain together and even run a bar together. One day, Ka-wah runs into Nam again at Man's bar. Ka-wah has been obsessed with Nam for years, but unfortunately, Ka-wah already has a girlfriend, Karen, who's planning to get married. Nam's return is part of a plan with his friend Ken and his uncle, Fatty. Nam arranges for Ken to work at Karen's design firm and has Fatty spy on Ka-wah and Karen, all to help Nam obtain the information he needs...