The Invitation

After taking a DNA ancestry test, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) is contacted by a long-lost cousin, Oliver (Hugh Skinner) who wants to meet her when he comes to NYC.  Over a fancy lunch, Oliver invites Evie to a lavish wedding in a few weeks, back in England.  Hesitating, she eventually agrees and is stunned when she…

Moneyboys

Fei (Kai Ko) works as an illegal hustler, but despite his affairs, he has one true love: Xiaolai (J.C. Lin).  When Xiaolai’s apartment is raided by police, Fei runs away and falls out of contact with Xiaolai as he creates a new life for himself in a new city.  A family emergency finds Fei returning…

Our Eternal Summer

With high school behind them and just waiting to start their adult lives in a few short weeks, a group of friends spend their days hanging around the coastal Mediterranean town of Marseille.  With the sun setting on their beach day, Malo (Matthieu Lucci) and Lola (Marcia Feugeas) go back for one final dip in…

Three Thousand Years of Longing

While giving a lecture on the power of myth and storytelling, Alithea (Tilda Swinton) begins to hallucinate on stage before fainting. When she has recovered from the spell, she takes to the market streets of Istanbul where she finds a small glass jar which she picks up for herself as a memento of her journey….

Emily the Criminal

Saddled with massive student loan debt and unable to use her degree given a mark on her criminal record, Emily (Aubrey Plaza) ekes by at a corporate catering company.  One day, she is given a number by her coworker to call and make an easy $200 cash.  With her back against the wall, she gives…

Fall

Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner) are free climbing thrill seekers, but after a fatal accident involving Becky’s husband, Dan (Mason Gooding), Becky hangs up her gear and sinks into a deep, alcoholic depression.  On the one-year anniversary of Dan’s accident, Hunter convinces Becky to climb an old radio tower with her, some…

Beast

After the passing of his wife, Dr. Nate Samuel (Idris Elba) takes his two daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries) on a safari with Martin (Sharlto Copley), a family friend and research partner of their mother. Things take a turn for the worse when the expedition comes across a small village whose residents…

Shamshera

Tricked by Shudh Singh (Sanjay Dutt), a military general aligned with the British armies invading India during the 1870’s, Shamshera (Ranbir Kapoor) forfeits his ancestral home and sentences his entire tribe to life in exile as slaves in the walled city of Kaza.  Refusing to accept defeat, he tries to find a way to escape…

Playground

Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) is nervous about starting school as she hugs her father (Karim Leklou) goodbye in the schoolyard.  Things do not go well for the young girl when she sees her older brother, Abel (Günter Duret), getting bullied during recess.  Despite her pleas, she cannot get an adult to step in and rectify the…