In a hospice, 38-year-old Nadine confronts terminal cancer with raw anger and reluctant acceptance. Struggling to bid farewell to her young son Dexter and a life unfinished, she navigates the weight of mortality. Bonds with fellow patients, like the vibrant Marion, offer solace amid pain and humor. Through fleeting moments of joy and sorrow, Nadine learns to let go, finding peace in life’s fragile beauty. Inspired by real hospice experiences, Benjamin Kramme’s touching debut captures the emotional turbulence of dying and the enduring light of human connection.

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. In the wake of their one-way chase, a Chinese businessman wanders around town; two magicians attempt to overcome a crisis, and a waitress is desperate for stability. Some will find what they are looking for, some will find each other, and some simply will not.

A day following workers at an airport

After a traumatic event, two neighbors come together in a community of contiguous houses, which creeps into nature’s threshold, to celebrate freedom. An ecosystem simultaneously in decay and growth opens up to the observation and construction of the facets of a suburban neighborhood in Southern California. The connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American dream and its resonances.

After a traumatic event, two neighbors come together in a community of contiguous houses, which creeps into nature’s threshold, to celebrate freedom. An ecosystem simultaneously in decay and growth opens up to the observation and construction of the facets of a suburban neighborhood in Southern California. The connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American dream and its resonances.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

A traveling architect meets an old friend from his student years; the pair realize their connection has always been a romantic one.

At home, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind.