Plain and Simple” is a window that gives on the lives of 4 different characters that share an acute sense of loneliness while striving for a secret desire of belonging.
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Unable to decipher reality and delusion after his son and wife die, a successful businessman struggles to find peace with his own conscience.
In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the street.
Two men and two women sitting around a table where they're playing strip poker.
During the trip back from their vacation, a young couple is stranded in the middle of the road and they lose all forms of communication, including each other.
Conflict between two teenage brothers becomes inevitable without their father at home.
Jonas, a 14-year-old teenager, takes a walk by the river that runs by his house. His friend Marina shadows him. They meet, spend the afternoon together, and as the daylight fades, so does their innocence.
Art and life are different worlds, separated by an impassable abyss. Where there is life, there is no art, and vice versa. Young artists have to make that choice, sometimes from a rather young age.
The boyfriend of a handsome photographer tries to deal with his jealousy after finding nude photos he took of a gorgeous model.
Julian is in a dilemma. He loves the person, he is in a relationship with, less than his best friend.
Jonathan is poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy tycoon. The couple appears picture perfect, until the eve of their engagement party, when an unexpected guest threatens to destroy Jonathan's plans for the future.
From outside, the world seeps into the ear, threatening with all its possibilities, live and in color. So better to turn around once more, close your eyes, and keep on dreaming. Yet reality is harsher: Pull yourself together! Open the window! That window which grants surprising insights from astonishing perspectives, and which also opens in the cinema, that place of unexpected answers to unasked questions. With precision and perfection, Joanna Hogg shapes that threshold moment of unrest and resistance, followed by the realization that nothing better could possibly have come to mind in order – finally! – to move and to act.
James Dean and Donald Turnupseed, the man whose car killed Dean, meet again for the first time... at the very same intersection where the accident occurred.
Artemio, a young man with financial problems, returns to his apartment after a long day of work to find his cat, Franz, gravely ill.
A story of a lonely woman, who tries in a somewhat radical way to reach out to the world, which doesn’t care for her personal needs.
Julien is autistic and dreams of finding love. His brother Malo is so devoted to him that he writes his messages on his dating app. Until one night, when they cross paths with Mia.
Regina receives news, she has obtained a scholarship to study abroad; she must decide whether to make the decision to leave or stay beside the people she loves.
Under the threat of a hurricane pending over the city, Lubrini is looking for his lover, who disappeared in the streets of Havana.
Short film.
“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a customer at her bookshop. Lisa is left feeling excluded, and tension develop. But soon an unexpected accident forces all of those involved to reassess the situation and adopt a different position in each other’s lives.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her murdered ex-boyfriend's secrets or find herself dead.
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
