Empatia

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social power.

Homeless man Robert (Bobby) Webb discovers the art of filmmaking, turning pages of his life into a heartfelt reel. Through his journey he finds hope and new meanings in unexpected aspects of his life as he relives them.

A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

​​After getting laid off, young single-mom Beth finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother Ben.

A young pastor goes through a harsh winter in a small Texas town, where his mission to help the homeless is faced with resistance by his congregation, exposing deep-seated prejudice and systemic failures.

Florence, a hapless musician, takes three homeless teens off the streets of Los Angeles and into her care only to realize she has to overcome her own reckless tendencies in order to care for them.

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nostalgic memories and a dark presence, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her...

Amanda Ogle is a woman living in her aging Toyota Camry on the streets of Seattle. When her car is stolen and impounded, she’s thrust into a relentless legal battle against an indifferent system. What begins as a fight to reclaim her car evolves into a deeply human story of resilience, dignity, and the power of one woman’s voice in the face of systemic failure.

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.

Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

Mac and Steve, two immature college kids, are going out on a Friday night when they encounter a controversial homeless man that leaves them questioning their values and society.

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin’s house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convinces the children that they are on a big and exciting adventure. When they arrive at her cousin’s house, they are warmly welcomed and fed. However, what initially seems like a safe haven soon turns out to be a trap. Gal realises that not only her own safety is at risk, but also the future of her children.

A babysitter takes the son of a wealthy family for a walk in the park. After a carelessness of the babysitter, the child follows two children from the street, who before returning him with her, will be responsible for giving him the best day of his life.

An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive.

George, a heroin-addicted chess hustler who sleeps in the park outside of the Section 8 housing where 12-year-old Vivienne lives, helps her prepare for a screen test through street schemes as twisted rehearsals, forging a unique bond built on chaos.