Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end.
When teenage Cindor Reeves’s sister Agnes married Charles Taylor, Taylor was an idealistic populist rebel, but his methodology quickly shifted to authoritarian rule after he secured Liberia’s presidency.
Christophe, Luca, Julien and Gaëtan: four young fathers discovering fatherhood. A father's eye explores the experiences of other fathers, showing in small ways the place they must claim in order to live their new daily life.
Three brothers meet to go to the bedside of their sick mother. While she is dying, her husband and sons will try to survive her. As best they can, the father organizes daily life in silent distress while his sons do not know how to cope with the approaching death.
Zoja and Lea spend their days running wild in the forest, squabbling charmingly, making potions from wildflowers, and whispering spells into the wind. Published in 1922, the well-known Polish book King Matt the First—a story about a boy who takes over as king after the death of his parents and soon after goes to war—inspires the girls to wonder about current world affairs. With the war looming across the Polish-Ukrainian border, the story once again resonates today.
After losing her parents, Masha falls in love with her guardian Sergei Mikhailovich. Masha is young, Sergei Mikhailovich is much older, and they have to go through a difficult path to understanding each other.
At the southernmost tip of Africa lies the Cape of Good Hope, where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet but never mix. A few miles away, in a township built to isolate the mixed-race population during apartheid, Kulsum lives alone with her two children while her husband Phadiel serves a 25-year sentence.
When 45-year old Aastha Goenka finally goes on her first date with 35-year-old Priya Malhotra, she's in for a day filled with conversations about heteronormativity, vulnerability, and second chances.
When an unstable young actress auditions for the role of Hamlet and is cast as Ophelia instead, she is made to watch as a man squanders her dream role, forcing her to take arms against a sea of troubles.
A cultural worker turned farmer extols the healing power of nature, a sea-diving model tackles marine pollution, a wildlife buff practises ‘wellness photography’, and a real estate agent channels his love of birds into paintings.
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