Historias Breves I: Downhill

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Mal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

Little Lide disappears in the forest while her family packs up their home. As a fire breaks out, her mother must race to reach her before the flames do.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

When immense pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and another dancer escape into a friendship that isolates them from the real world.

Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.

Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.