Hometown, Russia. Flaking off wallpaper, grandparents’ flat. Now my parents live here. Once or twice a year, I come to visit them. / Like my mother says: ‘For parents, you always stay children’, and there is truth in her words. I wonder and attempt to be present.

Hometown, Russia. Flaking off wallpaper, grandparents’ flat. Now my parents live here. Once or twice a year, I come to visit them. / Like my mother says: ‘For parents, you always stay children’, and there is truth in her words. I wonder and attempt to be present.

Mickey's quest to make everyone smile snags when he meets a Wicked Witch delivering poison apples.

Trying to escape his family and his American upbringing, Will Jr. looks for a new life in Cambodia. Through a spiritual community, he seeks explanation of the world around him.

Farhad tells the story of his life to a psychiatrist. In the time of the Iran-Iraq War, Farhad is arrested and charged with illegal migration. When he is freed years later, he goes to his old love, Mahtab. Through conversations with his psychoanalyst and interrogations with the police, Farhad reveals the story of his life.

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A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian. After her passing, Palme is visited by a mysterious woman who he mistakenly believes to be Xian. Shaken out of his sadness, Palme accepts her request to deliver something special to a far-off place known as Tama. This sets Palme off on a journey to discover his own emotions, and what it truly means to be human.

Siblings, Brad and Lisa Carpenter, along with two lifelong family friends, Will and Vanessa, set out road-tripping to an annual family reunion. They make the decision to find a place to stop and camp for the night. What ensues is a violent disturbance by six masked assailants, without motive or reason. The group find themselves living a night of psychological games and physical terror, and as morning dawns; the reality of what will come is more terrifying than anything the group could have ever imagined.

The film begins with the story of an ancient green apple. From the origins of the universe to the tales of our lives, stories are layered within stories.