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A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.

Unable to find the war he has been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

The Quest family and their bodyguard investigate strange phenomena and battle villains around the world.

A bear wakes out of hibernation in the middle of a human society that blindly refuses to recognize him as an animal.

Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a psychiatrist, can make four times as much playing piano at a hotel for foreigners; his sweetheart, Yolanda, wants a career as a dancer and longs for the riches of Miami; his younger brother Bobby simply wants to play rock music, and as a result is in constant trouble with the authorities. When Bobby takes a shocking step of revolt and Gustavo is refused service at a foreigners-only bar, the contradictions in his resolve to become a "new man" push him to the breaking point.

Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception.

A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.

A sinister landscaper turns into a tree and learns to communicate with his fellow plants.

An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.

After discovering her late husband's swinger's pad, a widow uses the apartment to explore her own sexuality, while searching for a man who can reciprocate her passions.

After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.

College volunteer Alan Newell is working alone at the crisis center one evening when he receives a telephone call from suicidal caller Inga Dyson, who has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. Can Alan save her?

Hock, an ordinary underachiever, discovers disco when his favorite kung fu movie is replaced by "Forever Fever," a low-budget Saturday Night Fever (1977) knockoff. Amazingly, the movie's main character comes to life and becomes Hock's guardian angel.

Miguel, a young trans woman from Quezon province, leaves the Philippines for the U.S. After seven years, she returns home, and her family discovers she had a gender affirmation operation and is now Michelle. She declares she will stay until her family accepts her. This proves iffy: mom is embarrassed by the scandal; dad is angry and rejecting, feeling his own manhood undermined. In a sub-plot, Michelle's best friend Julio, whom Michelle knows is gay, announces his engagement to Sonja. Michelle tries to talk Julio out of the marriage. Julio and Sonja's decisions, Michelle's changing relationship with her tatay, and her own need to confront anew the nature of her sexuality complete the film.

Wishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.

A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.

The Merediths move to an isolated farm. Mrs. Meredith and the neighbour Will Cade become friends and anticipate becoming lovers.