Adam, un orphelin, vit sur une planète pauvre jumelée à une planète où l’abondance règne. Les deux mondes ont chacun une gravité opposée. Quand Adam s’éprend d’Eden, une fillette de l’autre planète, tous deux tentent d’échapper à la gravité pour échanger un baiser. Mais la communication est interdite entre les deux mondes : des gardes tirent sur les jeunes gens. Eden tombe et se blesse Maintenant privé de celle qu’il aime, Adam grandit en cultivant le souvenir d’Eden. Afin de la retrouver, il invente une crème rajeunissante qui lui vaut une invitation de la société Transworld, établie sur l’autre planète. Il découvre que la jeune femme souffre d’amnésie, conséquence de la blessure d’autrefois. Bob, un nouvel ami, aidera Adam à traverser d’un monde à l’autre sans se faire repérer. Mais comment raviver le souvenir du passé dans l’esprit d’Eden?
Maxi, a boy on the cusp of his teens, is already comfortable with his homosexual feelings, with acceptance from his family. When Maxi is assaulted one evening, Victor, a police officer, comes to his aid. Maxi soon develops a crush on Victor, who shows a platonic affection for the young lad.
A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
A thug, with his partners, is chosen to work for a criminal gang and he becomes the left-hand man of the leader. The leader declares a war against another criminal and the thug has to protect him despite losing his friends.
Fast paced and evocative, this contemporary social drama delves into concepts of love and fidelity in human relationships in view of modern liberal lifestyles, through the lives of a scientist and a news anchor.