Directing
Troubled by his stutter, a young performer will do whatever it takes to deflect responsibility for his voice, even if it means renouncing his dream.
At her birthday party, a Chinese woman who has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter's secrets from her new friends.
A family of four – Father, Mother, Daughter and Son – arrives at a mysterious house between the ocean and the forest, feeling an unnamed crisis. What begins as a temporary stay stretches into a strange limbo. After an accident leaves Son bedridden, the family turns to a ritual of telling stories about the ocean, stories that seem to make people forget. Haunted by recurring nightmares, Daughter begins to sense that her own missing childhood memories are tied to the house and to a girl in a green dress. As the past surfaces and the boundary between reality and story dissolves, she must choose her way of remembering.
Consumed by his weakness, a gambling addict loses everything he has. Even then, he still finds it impossible to give up his addiction.
When a woman visits her fiancé’s rural hometown for the first time, she gets lost at night and finds herself in an abandoned village, where she encounters a mysterious bride and unearths long-buried family secrets.
Benjie's obsession with long-dead Filipino movie star Jaime Reyes leads him to the rooftop where the actor ended his own life. Here, he summons Jaime's ghost for a conversation.
After relocating to New York from China, Zhulan finds herself struggling to adjust to her new life. The language barrier, cultural differences, and diverse religious beliefs make her feel exceptionally lonely and she must find a way to adapt before it’s too late to save her 45-year-long marriage.
A nightclub owner struggles to balance her work life with her romantic life over the course of one chaotic evening, and is ultimately forced to choose between past and present love.