A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next-door. A pregnant French girl must choose between her lover, who is going into the service, and a very wealthy merchant. A young Samoan man from New Zealand heads to his motherland when he learns that his crush wants a real Pacific Island man.
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over. A frustrated science journalist makes a wish that she and her outgoing television host boyfriend can swap lives, and the two awaken in each other's bodies.
In order to find his estranged father after his dedicated mother dies, an Indian street magician travels to France. A rising young filmmaker, who uses his relationships as material for his films, is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance and the upcoming premiere of his second feature.
Explores the cultural shift in North American beauty standards toward embracing Black female aesthetics and features, while exposing the deliberate, and often dangerous portrayals of Black women in the media.
Jaakko, a blind and disabled man, must rely on help from five strangers to get to the woman he loves after she's met with some difficult news. The story of blind Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, one of Australia's most important and acclaimed voices, whose music took inspiration from his country in North East Arnhem Land.
