A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps constant watch over the fig tree the boy has planted at his father's gravesite. As the years pass, the man's lonely vigil makes him a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues.

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.

In South Los Angeles, a young mother's love for her daughter is put to the test.

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin.

An apple tree set on a rural ridge, is where we glimpse the boy mature, fall in love, go to war, return with his own son, and finally pay his last respects as a very old man who has seen too much change.

After searching for the ideal structure for many years, an artist builds an installation in a rewilded field in Dorset one summer, and continues her journey of loss and remembrance.

Gowri, a documentary filmmaker, travels with her cameraman Vittal to a remote village in search of a musical teacher for her project, which requires her to study how music is shaped by different locations. However the musician is nowhere to be found. The two are forced to wait for his return.

Gowri, a documentary filmmaker, travels with her cameraman Vittal to a remote village in search of a musical teacher for her project, which requires her to study how music is shaped by different locations. However the musician is nowhere to be found. The two are forced to wait for his return.

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.