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An overworked high school math teacher tries to teach his class on zoom when he comes to a devastating and infuriating realization.
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The story takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the socioeconomic effects on a married couple confined to their home due to quarantine.
As the community quarantine puts the nation on hold, a political science major and a student working part time as a delivery driver butt heads online β but soon find themselves falling for each other. Will their love survive once itβs taken offline?
Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.
A person shaken by the catastrophes of the world cannot let go of their chaotic thoughts until they find a bond that was once lost.
A village reliant on a consistent supply of alcohol is rocked by the Coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.
In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.
After going through an emotional breakdown, a woman tries to realign herself before deciding if she can take on another job.
Brothers Max and Gelu are determined to survive the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping Italy. The two return to their native Romanian village, where they think they will be safe. Regardless of costs or means, Max and Gelu will gain immunity to the virus...
Marcos is a boy obsessed with cleanliness and order. One day, his OCD will be threatened with the arrival of Pedro. He is a dirty plumber who must check and fix the plumbing in his apartment, compulsorily. In this way, Marcos will have to confront his condition and do everything in his power to return to his perfect daily life.
A recovering alcoholicβs journey lurches into a nightmare tailspin during a global crisis. Sober for only a few months, her sanity erodes as the demon in her brain drags her deeper and deeper into a vortex of madness.
Story of a friendship between Carl and the school's janitor, Richard. Then Carl's mother felt that her son is best suited to another school, after a 6-week COVID-19 lockdown, in which Carl and Richard had the entire school to themselves.
Gabriel is a depressed young man living a reclusive and lonely life, shaken by memories of a very turbulent past. Amid the corona-virus pandemic that is ravaging the world, Gabriel finds refuge in his passion for video games and decides to start a modest career in live broadcasts on the internet. With his shy personality, he creates a community of online fans who connect with his inspiring messages of perseverance and authenticity. As Gabriel shares his personal journey and encourages his viewers to face their fears, he becomes a source of hope for many, especially one young follower who, inspired by her words, finds the strength to report her attacker. As his stream views increase and positive comments flood his channel, Gabriel finds a sense of purpose, fulfillment, and courage he never imagined.
In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan in this lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York City.
The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister overreacts to the virus and even her usually calm friend Hirai starts to build up frustration. In the middle of all that, she re-unites with Tanaka, who gave her the opportunity to absorb herself in painting, clashes with Hirai over their true feelings and tries to face her own future.
In February 2020, a luxury cruise ship carrying a cluster infection of the novel coronavirus docks in Yokohama. Disaster Medical Assistance Teams work tirelessly to save lives while battling anxiety and fear surrounding the unknown virus.
The three men enjoy the evening at a bar whose fate is threatened by pandemic restrictions. Bartender Heikki offers discussion help to his friend Risto, who works in the first line of healthcare, and who has just finished a difficult shift. The evening gets a new twist when a stranger looking for a mobile phone charger pops in and refuses to leave.
A young student heads back to his village during the COVID-19 lockdown to collect ethnographic material for his thesis, but as quarantine stretches on, the rituals and everyday scenes he records start bringing back childhood memories-leading him to piece the footage together into something more personal.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunkβnot only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house β an obsession that could cost him everything.
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
