Translator
As robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) become increasingly prevalent, questions arise around their impact on human relationships. Travelling the world from the UK to Japan and the USA, Akram Khan meets with scientists and their creations of AI that already coexist with humans. In doing so, he confronts his own scepticism of how we can form emotional connections with machines. This film gives rise to an exhilarating duet performed by Khan and Ching-Ying Chien.
Mother
Qian Hui's quest to absolve her daughter, Mica, of a violent murder. Along the way she discovers Mica's dark secret and has to rethink the family life that she thought they led.
Tsumo Moriyama
Ubasute Old Woman #2
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Mary (Mum)
An intense young woman stalks a young gay couple in a seaside town. What is the root of her seemingly unhealthy obsession?
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
