A Year Ago in Winter

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.

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.

In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.

A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.

Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the forest they finally find a release for their aggression by joining a Nazi gang - only to discover the boundaries where harmless play turns into murder.

After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.

Eiji is the mistress of Nozomi, the widow of the company president, and if she asks, he will even ignore his wife Reiko. Reiko, who senses that her husband is cheating on her, also rekindles her lewd relationship with her boyfriend from college. The couple, who were supposed to be enjoying their own love affair, are faced with an unexpected turn of events...

Gensaku Katori, a managing director at a certain bank, relentlessly criticizes the naked body of his secretary and mistress, Ayako Kimura. Young Ayako's body responds to the technique of this master, entrusting her limbs to her abnormal pleasure, arousing her greedy desire, and unfolding her shameful state. Ayako continues her current mistress relationship as Gensaku is divorcing his wife, Nenko, but she is frustrated that things are not progressing very well.

Yuko lost her husband in an accident. On that day, her sister-in-law Masako, who had come from her hometown, and they held a memorial service for her husband on the 49th day. Yuko, who broke up with her girlfriend Masako and was left alone, happened to meet her friend Yumiko from her school days on the street. The two had previously had a lesbian relationship...

Toshiko lives with an older man, Shozo. On her back was a tattoo of Hannya carved by Shozo. Her tattoo artist, Shozo, who inherited the blood of her masters, tattooed her in order to keep her in her hands. He is currently traveling to Europe because a foreigner asked him to tattoo him. Asako and Shinji, who live in the room next to Toshiko, are student lovers, but when Asako finds out that she's cheating on her, she goes to her girlfriend's Masao. After hearing about her situation, Toshiko puts Asako to sleep when he comes to retrieve her belongings and tattoos a dragon on her secret spot, but...

Ikuko, a teacher at a part-time high school, is tied up by three men in the physical education club's equipment storage area in the basement. Her husband, Ichiro, works as a private tutor, but he continues to have an affair with her former student Toshiko. Ikuko was informed of her husband's affair by her student Inoue, and she was also told that she was one of the people Inoue had sex with. She was then invited to the basement of the school, where she was asked to listen to her concerns. Two of Inoue's friends are also waiting in the basement, but Ikuko is secretly planning something...

Hideki is a freelance photographer. His wife Eiko is a beautiful woman who looks good in Japanese clothes. The person who arranged their marriage was Yumiko, a widow and secretary of Hideki's family who came from a prestigious family. In reality, Hideki is impossible. Yumiko knew this and secretly told her girlfriend Eiko to marry her. When Eiko learned of this fact, she tried to leave her house, but Yumiko stopped her, grabbed her, pushed her onto the sofa, intertwined their bodies with her, and caressed her relentlessly.

Yuki entered the Azusa family's second wife on her fourth day. Makio Azusa was not only a successful businessman, but also energetic towards women. There were several women outside who were not satisfied with holding young Yuki every night. That day, I ran to the woman without having breakfast. Of course, Yuki and her family called it work. Just that day, Shinichi, the son of the herdsman's wife, arrived. Previously, when Shinichi came back to this house, Yuki felt someone staring at her through the glass while she was taking a shower. Shinichi was peeking through the slightly opened gap...

Yusaku feels that his wife, Misako, has become more bewitching. This is because Misako's erogenous zones have been completely developed by Yusaku's careful daily sexual techniques. Misako is moaning in Yusaku's arms. She had been so absorbed in sex since last night that she seemed to have forgotten the time. She was living a happy married life that everyone envied, but when Yusaku decided to transfer to Bangkok, she left for Thailand on her own. Feeling lonely being alone, he decides to meet up with his old friend Keiko. However, she was now working at a traveling soap. In order to relieve her loneliness, she asks if he would like to work with her...

A frustrated married woman is harassed by a man. She then meets a runaway girl, whom she invites to live with her and her husband.

After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

A young woman meets a man in a seedy hotel for a mysterious assignation in this unsettling narrative.

Eriko married the heir of a businessman and was living happily ever after. One day, even though it was Sunday, her husband Yoshiki went to work. She became curious about a photo book published by her brother-in-law Kensaku that her husband had left behind. Eriko was secretly worried about Kensaku's threats...

A woman is assaulted on a train, later becoming a model for an artist.

Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and the next 20 years she spent in and out of the institutions. At last, a caring doctor started treating her for extreme depression and panic disorder. Weened from strong medications she had taken all her life, at age 36, she emerged for the last time and started a rehabilitation program in the home of a volunteer married couple. There she met a fellow patient with whom she developed a romantic relationship. She also started a college degree. This followed with a long-term professional success in the field of mental health.

An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to join Said in Tunis, weaving rugs to make money. Said asks that she give him a son, so Aicha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law.

A familiar landscape of box stores and parking lots proves a rich site for longing. Celebrities observed in this environment and are reduced to ordinary beings in the process. A curious narrator reveals little moments of subjectivity that evidence the paradox of connection and belonging within systems that simultaneously contain us and comprise us.