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Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
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In the middle of preparing his apartment to have Mira live with him, Luc escapes to Svalbard. Stumbling drunk out of an Artic “Oktoberfest”, Luc meets Mike, a stranger who lives in an isolated cabin in the Arctic desert. Mike mysteriously abandons Luc in mid conversation. Intrigued, Luc decides to find Mike. Along the way, he meets Ingrid, a Norwegian teacher. Luc rushes into the footsteps of Mike who remains elusive and volatile, Luc hunts a shadow, his own possibly.
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Within the top secret Institute of Physics Problems, the scientist Nikita Nekrasov is visited by his wife and small children. While away from his family the physicist has managed to fall in love with other women. In open conversations with his spouse – in the bedroom, the dining room, and while out walking – he attempts to convince her of the legitimacy of polygamous relationships, and to test the limits of her unconditional love.
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It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth – Maria, a Greek actress – during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven't seen each other for 25 years. Dau is a successful and prosperous scientist, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through Maria he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, Dau's wife, returns home.
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Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives together with her family within the confines of a secret and privileged Moscow institute. Nora is visited by her mother for the first time since her wedding. Her mother closely observes the atmosphere within the couple's home, trying to work out whether her daughter is happy. During the course of their intimate conversations the complexity of their contradictory relationship is revealed.
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Ling (Yeo Yann Yann) es una chica procedente de Malasia que da clases de mandarín en un instituto de Singapur donde su labor es poco apreciada. Tienen pocos motivos para ser feliz: ella y su marido han pasado los últimos ocho años intentando concebir un hijo, un proceso que ha erosionado notablemente su relación. De hecho, su marido apenas pasa ya tiempo en casa, por lo que Ling se tiene que ocupar prácticamente en solitario de su suegro enfermo. Una inesperada fuente de comfort aparece en la figura de Wei Lun (Koh Jia Ler), el único estudiante de su clase al que parece interesarle la materia.
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Una joven adolescente se encuentra luchando por cuidar de sí misma y de su hermano menor después de ser abandonada por su madre soltera sin más remedio que vivir en las calles.
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Far from home, 17-year-old Ying Ling practices for her examination to become a mortician at one of China's largest funeral homes. The everyday routine of this unusual occupation also serves up both humorous and life affirming moments.
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Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.
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Singapur, 1997: Los Lim son una familia acomodada de tres miembros – marido, mujer e hijo – que recibe a Teresa (Angeli Bayani), una mujer filipina que ha venido a la metrópolis a servir, al igual que muchas otras compartriotas suyas en busca de una vida mejor. Toda la familia tiene que adaptarse a la presencia de esta extranjera, que altera aún más su relación ya tensa. Sin embargo, Teresa y Jiale (Koh Jia Ler), el problemático chico al que cuida, pronto forman un vínculo fuerte y afectuoso, que se va desarrollando, dándole al chico una sensación de pertenencia en una familia que se
desintegra poco a poco, mismo vínculo que se verá amenazado por la irrupción de elementos externos – una crisis financiera – e internos en la dinámica familiar que los cambiarán para siempre. Inspirada en hechos de la infancia de su director. (FILMAFFINITY)
