Ariel Perino

In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.

An intoxicated graduating college student confronts her similarly inebriated father for the first time while waiting for him to drive them home.

In a toxic hypermasculine world, a man struggles to keep his secret as he drinks and catches up with his nosy friend group.

In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.

A timid young man must burn his mother's corpse after the city refuses to bury her.