Whilst embarking on a lesbian relationship with the new girl in town, a Métis woman’s life is rocked to the core when her estranged mother returns.
Social & External
Beatrice
Leonore
Chani
Pehmee
Josephine
Sukow
Monique
Ted
Brant
In an economically struggling small town, Jenny, a young married woman, begins an affair with June, her college-bound, African-American neighbor.
A couple's relationship falls apart under the pressures of city life and their personal demons. Can they work through their issues, face their fears and realise they are meant to be together?
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Rural England, winter 2013, Ruth and Juliet are waiting for the British Parliament to pass a legislation that would allow same-sex marriage, so they can get married. But they are out of time.
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
Nurse Nora is looking forward to her first Christmas vacation in years and wants to spend it quietly and relaxed with her mother Ellen. She doesn't really mind that her brother Moritz, formerly Maike, isn't coming, as she has always felt inferior to him. But then not only Moritz turns up, Grandma Lore also changes her plans and, to make matters worse, they are joined by their widowed neighbor Rolf and his detestable son Bent, as well as their daughter Katja and grandson Fritz, due to a faulty heating system.
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going for the gold”.
Four alternating stories about mundane, personal methods of control. Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters and their own bodies.
A lesbian with commitment issues befriends a widowed mother who is visiting her workaholic daughter.
Oblivious to their close proximity to one another, two women reflect on a brief connection they shared six months earlier.
A former child star buys her grandmother's house to rescue it from ruin but her hope for serenity is soon eclipsed by haunting dreams of her famous grandmother, who died of a supposed overdose in the house more than 30 years ago.
The emotional need and the fear of exposing themselves make Etna and Dario learn to cope with loneliness.
La Güera, a young rapper from Mexico City, struggles with her ability to rap after a heartbreak. Despite attending freestyle sessions with friends, she struggles to regain her lyrical prowess. Seeking solace, she turns to a forest-dwelling shamanic friend for unconventional healing. Through a transformative encounter with forest crickets, she confronts her pain and emerges with newfound liberation.
A father urges his son not to disgrace him by failing to come first in a race.
A young man returns home after the passing of his estranged father only to become embroiled in a sinister family plot that must occur during a rare lunar eclipse.
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".