Il reporter newyorkese Ike Graham è in cerca di un'idea interessante cui dedicare il nuovo articolo della sua rubrica sul USA Today. Al pub dove solitamente trova ispirazione, fa la conoscenza di un uomo sconsolato che gli racconta di una donna che ha sistematicamente abbandonato all'altare ogni suo sposo nel giorno delle nozze. Il pezzo sulla "sposa in fuga" riceve un grosso richiamo e provoca le ire del suo stesso soggetto, Maggie Carpenter, che per pronta risposta scrive una lettera di protesta in cui denuncia le bugie e lo sciovinismo di Ike. Licenziato dalla sua editrice nonché ex moglie, Ike decide così di vendicarsi a suo modo, indagando sulle precedenti relazioni di Maggie e trasferendosi nella piccola cittadina del Maryland dove lei vive in attesa di sposarsi per la quarta volta.
La tredicenne Kayla affronta i problemi legati alla sua vita da adolescente di periferia durante l'ultima settimana dell'ultimo disastroso anno delle scuole medie.
E' la storia di una cantante rock, Hedwig e della sua disperata ricerca del successo e dell'amore. Hedwig prima si chiamava Hansel ed era un ragazzo il cui sogno era trovare l'anima gemella, con una certa riluttanza, in seguito si sottopone ad un'operazione di cambio di sesso per sposare un americano e scappare via da Berlino Est. Dopo il divorzio decide di mettere su una rock band ed incontra il giovane Tommy, che diventa suo protettore ed amante ma poi scappa via rubandole le canzoni...
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
"Under Pressure" follows two brothers on a turbulent journey navigating addiction and processing bittersweet nostalgia. Set in Oakland, the film contrasts vibrant memories with a harsh present. Milo battles despair while flashbacks unveil carefree moments with Benny in a sunlit park. Simultaneously, Benny's reflective drive blurs past and present, intertwining narratives and questioning the boundaries of reality. This intricate portrayal of human resilience amidst life's pressures prompts viewers to ponder the fragile nature of existence
Three groups of adolescent girl friends from Quebec are going through tough changes. The process of inventing their own bodies and identity are being recorded on the move by their smartphones and shared with their peers from other parts of the networked world. Due to their strong need of external confirmation, they alter their lives into a series of retouched pictures and videos. The film camera, however, captures their feelings of void, loneliness and deep inner insecurities that are not so attractive for Periscope, TikTok or Instagram. An intimate portrait of adolescence is made with full comprehension of experiencing and self-presentation in a generation growing up on the brink of the real and virtual worlds.
Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different. At age of 18, she finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair.
The journey of a woman from a mere homemaker to a woman seeking her self identity. This search for self identity is sparked off by a young bohemian photographer, with whom she falls in love while he photographs her for a magazine doing her daily chores.
An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.
After trashing a pumpkin patch with a group of old friends, skeptic college student Ruben meets a bloodthirsty pumpkin demon forced to roam the Earth as a punishment for its sins against its master- a witch who wants to make a change.
Ghassan Sidawi takes a trip to get to know more about a late friend of his family. While doing so, he learns what it feels to be a lost Palestinian artist from home.
After six years of estrangement, Gene returns home for Thanksgiving. In the events leading up to dinner, Gene attempts to reconnect with their sister and brother, both resentful of Gene's long absence, while the unwavering conservatism of their parents poses a challenge to Gene's authenticity.
"Dog Husband" explores identity, relationship dynamics, and constructed definitions formed both in the presence of others and in private.
Pedro is Mallorcan, born to a mother from Burgos and a father from Mallorca. Due to his distant relationship with his father, Pedro doesn't fully master Mallorcan as a language. He turns to the works of Damià Huguet to remember his father, as only his poems can fill the void left by his death. The poet's words transport Pedro to his childhood and his roots, even though many of the words are unknown to him, despite them belonging to his language. This becomes the driving force behind the protagonist's search for his own identity, his origins, what it means to be a man, father-son relationships, collective identity, and "mallorquinness". Pedro constantly questions the emotions stirred by Huguet's poetry, and, most importantly, who he is and where he belongs.
An intimate diary of a young woman whose pregnancy causes her to suffer from enhanced nightmares, anxieties about her soon to be born baby girl and makes her question motherhood as she knows it, through her own mother and grandmother.
Toxic masculinity has come to a head and this story explores the consequences not just for women, but for men. The phrase "toxic masculinity" is thrown around flippantly, and its potential root causes are very rarely explored. When a person is plagued with jealousy, they are willing to do almost anything in order to acquire what they desire. Our protagonist, August, internalizes the relationship that his best friend Wren shares with his girlfriend Julia as a direct, personal attack on him and his identity. Due to the fact August is not getting the same amount of attention and affection that he is used to from Wren, he goes behind Wren's back to manipulate Julia. August's internalized turmoil triggers an out-of-body experience that then drives him to make intimidating, coerced advances toward the people he loves.
Shasha, a long-haired heterosexual girl, was accidentally brought into the sensory world between girls by the short-haired girl Yuzi. All of this subverted her previous cognition of herself, and began to doubt herself, followed by a series of unanswerable questions. While the two were speechless, their friend Jiang Hongyu broke the silence by accidentally breaking in. 3 people sat around listening to the sound outside the window at 4 am in winter...
An Internet Scammer who intermittently questions his morals, attains the opportunity to fraud an elderly woman. Despite this being his largest scam, after learning more about the woman it becomes his most difficult.
An existential Ken slowly begins to unravel the line between the Barbie world and the real world, blurring them as he questions his entire existence.
A young woman becomes one with her environment as she embraces the burial of her unattainable ideal self, eventually transcending. She is one with all.