Fia is 18 years old, pregnant and has just moved with her boyfriend to their first apartment in a suburb. Alone she tries to navigate the society of adulthood for the first time.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ann Sofi Nilsson
Fia
Per Mattsson
Björne
Yvonne Lombard
Mother
Anders Nyström
Father
Mona Seilitz
Agneta
Jan Malmsjö
Söljewall
Anders Åberg
Doctor
Karin Miller
Nurse
Tove Linde
Assistant
Marie Göranzon
Agnes
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A man trying to find the real meaning of the place called home or which place he should call it as he has lived his youth abroad and now is having a hard time settling in his home country where he was born.
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Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.
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Erika, David, and Pjerrot arrive at the train tracks. They have to wait for the next freight train to arrive, because Erika has given them a challenge that will make them feel alive. But what is going on in their home, and why are they seeking the border? Perhaps it is not just a game.
Two lonely people struggle with summoning the courage to take another risk.
Félix finds a young man lying unconscious on the beach and realizes he has scales on his back. Félix takes him home and takes care of him.
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Kei works at a cocktail bar, while Ai works as a model. Fearing she'll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and, as a result, she becomes distressed and lonely. One day, Kei gets close to Naima, an Iranian student studying art in Japan.
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
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Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability and alienation.
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A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
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