Tag: grief

  • Hope Frozen: A Quest To Live Twice

    A Buddhist scientist from Bangkok decides to cryo-preserve his daughter’s brain. As scandal swirls around the family, they struggle to grieve a child that, in their view, is suspended between death and a future reawakening.

  • Betrayal

    While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient’s wife.

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

    In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

  • Lilting

    A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don’t share a language, they grow close through their grief.

  • The Guest

    A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

  • Bravetown

    After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.

  • Louder Than Bombs

    Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene’s older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in – and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

  • Fleabag

    A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

  • Borg Mom

    Choi Go-Bong works in the field of artificial intelligence. His wife died 7 years ago after giving birth to their son Choi Yool. Choi Go-Bong then developed a borg mom using AI and robotics. Choi Yool enters a prestigious kindergarten and the borg mom meets the other mothers there. The mothers group is full of vanity and pretentiousness.

  • By the Sea

    Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.