Wei and Jie are childhood friends and when Wei is hired as a debt collector he persuades his boss to hire Jie as well. After a successful run in their new profession they are rewarded with a gun and Jie ends up killing a rival gang boss which sets off a series of events that threatens both of their lives.
Chuck and Buck are two childhood friends who reunite after 18 years. While Chuck has developed into a quiet movie executive, Buck hasn't matured at all. He acts like a child and doesn't like that Chuck has a fiancée.
Atim is a 16-year old boy who in the aftermath of the forty year civil war in Chad is sent off to find and kill Nassara, who murdered his father. When Atim finds Nassara he doesn't reveal his identity and Nassara takes him under his wing.
In November 1987, family father Arnold Friedman was, alongside his eldest son Jesse, accused of multiple counts of child molestation. Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki was given access to the Friedman's home videos which resulted in this strong portrayal of a family's struggle to hold themselves together in the wake of the unthinkable.
Wei and Jie are childhood friends and when Wei is hired as a debt collector he persuades his boss to hire Jie as well. After a successful run in their new profession they are rewarded with a gun and Jie ends up killing a rival gang boss which sets off a series of events that threatens both of their lives.
Mona is a young woman who, despite previous setbacks, is determined to become a beauty queen. Her conviction is so strong she persuades her friend to raise her baby daughter as her own in order to go on with the Miss America competition. Along the way however, Mona is forced re-evaluate what's really important in life.
Atim is a 16-year old boy who in the aftermath of the forty year civil war in Chad is sent off to find and kill Nassara, who murdered his father. When Atim finds Nassara he doesn't reveal his identity and Nassara takes him under his wing.
Chuck and Buck are two childhood friends who reunite after 18 years. While Chuck has developed into a quiet movie executive, Buck hasn't matured at all. He acts like a child and doesn't like that Chuck has a fiancée.
Ali is a Pakistani in America looking for his lost wife. He picks up a Japanese hitch-hiker called Tappei but after a while the car breaks down. Tappei goes off to find petrol and encounters the beautiful Sarah who helps them fix the car. She brings them back to her trailer park home and they all agree to continue the search for Ali's wife together.
A lonely artist and elder-cab driver meets a newly single salesman and father of two boys. This is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world.
Nine year-old Louis is sent to Brittany to spend the summer with his mother's friend and her husband. The couple are childless, having lost their child at birth years earlier, and a war begins between them over the boy's affections. Soon however, Louis finds refuge in a friendship with ten year-old Martine who lives next door.
