An overweight journalist navigates a strange friendship with a legendary writer and finds his life curiously entwined with one of the writer's students, a fiery young girl.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

When a family reunion brings together siblings, they realize they are now more like strangers. At the end of the day, a shocking incident tests their bonds.

When a lesbian couple moves into a haunted house whose lease they can't break, they must change their way of life to adapt to their eerie surroundings.

A boy growing up during Japan’s postwar economic ascendancy comes to grips with the sudden death of his mother and the eventual passing of his blind, aging father.

An elderly Chinese engineer reflects the time he spends working on obsolete space craft in relative isolation.

A motherless young girl sent to boarding school by her single father is rattled by two women who begin to appear in her life in strange ways.

A depressed, divorced father visits his son in Southern California, hoping to encounter a bit of joie de vivre, if for only a few days.

A neglected little girl conjures memories of her babysitter's tragic past. Just for the night, the two find an antidote to loss in each other.