Movies: Slice of life

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the younger immigrant generation....

Greta's Girls lovingly depicts the quotidian moments in the domestic life of a lesbian couple and their dog in New York City. Greta's Girls is one of the first independent short films to focus on lesbians....

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A day in the life of a solitary old-timer, where routine collides with the surrealism of his home – a tree hollow on the outskirts of a village....

Bai Xiaoyu meets Wang Jinjin for the first time in the summer of 2010 during their college entrance exams. However, she slips through his fingers and they don’t see each other again until an unexpected meeting during college graduation season. The pa...

Three Families heal each other, while they spend their most difficult times with Strangers...

A young woman tries to overcome her anxiety, which is personified by a crocodile....

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and...

After a career-ending injury, Dan Greentree and his wife find themselves at odds over their future. As tensions rise and painful truths surface, their love is tested like never before. But beneath the anger and uncertainty, one thing remains clear—th...

The story of a group of plateau oil rig workers and how their lives change when they move from the rural grasslands and into the city....

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again....

Sori Lee is hoping for a fresh start at her new school―which is easier said than done when every single thing reminds her of why she transferred. As luck would have it, an anonymous letter taped to the bottom of her desk provides a perfect distractio...

While at the riverbank looking for fossils, Rintarou meets a boy named Toshi, and their days of adventure begins....

A pixalation animation about a woman's dream....

Ito Marika stars as the lead in this 2022 SP that tells the story of a group of friends, who run a food wagon serving sandwiches made with local produce, and their interactions with a farming family that they meet in Takasaki City in the Gunma Prefec...

A bereaved woman utilizes near-future tech, in an attempt to recall the comfort of a mundane memory with a recently lost loved one....

Being a Cat Robot sure is tiring......

Yeon-yi and Sun-jae are divorced and now just work together on writing a script. One day, Yeon-yi’s alumni and their spouse move in next door and their relationship takes a new turn. A warm story about the positivity of people....

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Li...

Two teenage girls next door, from different ethnicities, experience challenges and family drama in their own way. Each one wants what the other one has but is the grass really fairer on the other side?...