This mystery film, directed and conceived by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, features 20 up-and-coming actors. Written by Yusuke Moriguchi ("Beautiful Dreamer," "Kohaku"), the film unfolds at the funeral of a person named "Hinata Okimura," depicting a deepening mystery as the eulogies of the 20 attendees contradict each other, unfolding in an unpredictable manner. Twenty men and women attend Hinata Okimura's funeral. According to the deceased's wishes, all attendees must deliver a eulogy. Standing before an unusual altar without a portrait, some speak as friends, others as devoted fans, and still others as fellow members of an idol group, each beginning to recount their memories of the deceased. However, the image of "Hinata Okimura" becomes increasingly distorted, even differing in gender from the person they describe, plunging the funeral into chaos.
The protagonist has passed through prison, the catwalk, and the funeral business to become the living embodiment of Charon. He is a guide who assists others in crossing the main river, while also finding his own shore.
Leo, a trans man with undiagnosed ADHD, is on his way to win back his ex-girlfriend when his plans are thwarted by a storm, forcing him to slow down and reevaluate.
The lives of a mismatched group of guests and employees become entangled in a run-down hotel. Some have come in search of peace and a brief escape from their daily routine, while others long for change – or even love. A lonely clarinetist crosses paths with a young man looking for a romantic adventure, an unhappily married couple, an idiosyncratic hotel staff member, and also an alien sent from the planet Minerva 2 in order to report on the state of Earth. A mosaic of fourteen interwoven stories emerges through fleeting situations, awkward moments, interior monologues, and quiet observations. This experimental film by Miroslav Krobot and Lubomír Smékal is loosely based on the stage production of the same name by the S 23 Theatre Company, whose non-professional actors put together stage performances based on the dialogical acting method.
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 a traumatic divorce, a young and promising architect, Ava Westcott, returns to Niagara Falls to confront her nightmares, only to find herself the target of a disturbed local, Wyatt Ross, whose dark history and obsession threaten both their lives.
The beginning of summer. Yuka, who has just divorced Haruki after three years of marriage, goes on vacation to a seaside town with her best friend Shina and her boyfriend Dazai. Reunited with Dazai, who she was once in love with, after a long time, Yuka's feelings for him gradually begin to rekindle. Meanwhile, Shina is attracted to Tenma, a poet who lives in the seaside town. Unrequited feelings and a peaceful daily life. The vacation has only just begun.
After a long exhausting day, a young man returns to his apartment expecting just another ordinary night, only to find himself trapped inside a terrifying loop where nightmares and reality begin to merge. Every 59 seconds, the night resets itself, dragging him deeper into a world of fear, paranoia, and disturbing visions connected to a name from his past. As the cycle repeats, the apartment slowly transforms into a psychological maze filled with secrets, shadows, and cryptic messages, while the line between reality and illusion becomes harder to recognize. In a desperate attempt to understand what is happening, the young man realizes that something dark is hunting him… something that knows him far better than he could ever imagine.
Following a late night news broadcast detailing a series of unexplained disappearances and increasingly strange reports from inside people's homes, one man dismisses the warnings as another sensational story. When he finally hears a loud knock he starts to look around his house for where its coming from, the line between broadcast and reality begins to disappear.
After two femme presenting queer women get married on the beach, a group of three cishet men tell them “congratulations.” As the couple thanks the group, the men propose that they have a drink together and that the couple should “go grab their husbands.” Via this stereotypical heteronormative assumption, the wives are transported to a hyper queer affirming world containing queer couples dressed in their wedding best, but before they can join these empowering beautiful humans the wives must defeat their own inner colonial heteronormative insecurities.
High in the French Pyrenees, the reintroduction of wild bears in a traditional shepherding community provokes deep conflict. An aging shepherd struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bear.