In this harrowing post-apocalyptic world where giant spider-like creatures have overwhelmed much of the human population, four high-school boys find themselves huddled in a secluded cabin nestled in Californian woods. It was their spring break. And suddenly, it was the end of days. Of the four boys is Alan, an outsider, a reclusive kid with a passion for writing and a long history of being bullied. The same history carries on inside this cabin as all the boys, due to cabin fever and the mental toll of the apocalypse, grow increasingly savage and liken Alan to a punching bag for their stress, control, and ego. Even with the monsters outside, there are still monsters within. When one night, after a brutal beating, Alan wakes up to one of the creatures, glowing a bright green light, dangerously close to the cabin. Doing everything he can to keep the place as a civil and safe haven, but increasingly going savage himself, Alan contends with the claustrophobia, the dangers outside and in, and the darkest of all thoughts. Does Alan fight to live to fight another day? Or does he succumb to what the other boys have succumbed to long ago?

Canary

Enemy Alien is a poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his government on the basis of his ethnicity. Enemy Alien explores his memory and the loss this traumatic event imprinted upon him.

Enemy Alien

The ex-Syrian refugee and a food deliverer, Yasser meets Eita, a solitary Japanese boy in the city park, and they grow a family-like bond as they play soccer and cook together after Yasser’s bike gets stolen.

Gift

At dawn, Kelsey Akioka hikes out onto the Kalapana lava fields with a camera in hand and 80 lbs of gear on his back. We observe his methodical photography process amid one of nature’s most beautiful and chaotic events. Under the shade of a pop-up tent, he sells these photos at a small makeshift marketplace to apathetic tourists. By the end of the day, Kelsey returns home, exhausted and worn, to his son and elderly father. When he learns his friend is sacrificing his passion and moving away from home to pursue a better life for his family, Kelsey begins to question his own choices. As his frustrations spill into his home life, Kelsey must confront the turmoil stirring within him.

Inheritance

Haunted by grief, the loss of his father and the mounting pressure of becoming a father himself, Adam finds a mysterious baseball glove on the beach. In attempting to track down the owner, he learns of his unlikely connection to a stranger across the world in Japan, a stranger he has more in common with than he ever realized.

Kanashimi

Nicole and Sam is a happy couple. But it still requires some effort to keep their relationship happy and glorious. ニコルとサムは幸せなカップル。しかし彼らの関係を幸せで素晴らしいものにし続けるにはいくつかの秘密があった…

Nicole and Sam

Mei, a Japanese Canadian teenage girl, lives with her single father Tatsuya. Mei just found out that her trip to Japan which she long- awaited for has been cancelled due to Tatsuya’s work. Although Mei is upset at her father for breaking his promise of taking her to Japan, she is mature enough to understand her father's situation and work responsibilities. Consequently, she tries not to voice her complaints directly, but her disappointment still shows through her changed behaviors toward her father. However, a traditional Japanese custom, Okuribi, gives Mei an opportunity to reflect on her actions and reconcile with her father.

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Okuribi

After Jin meets not only his father but also unknown family members for the first time, everything becomes confused and chaotic.

Our Late Father

Every stamp has a story. The resilience and determination of Japanese American World War II soldiers, who were asked to fight for their country despite having their freedom unjustly taken away, embody the best of the American spirit. While remembering their achievements and struggles, this short documentary tells the extraordinary story of how, after 15 years, a grassroots movement led by three elderly Nisei (2nd generation) women overcame all odds to successfully campaign for a Go For Broke stamp.

Stamp Our Story

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

The Old Young Crow

Akutagawa, the acclaimed mystery writer, is in serious trouble. His plot twists are clever, his tricks still flawless, yet the author’s recent novels ring lifeless and dull. A young stranger, Naoki, appears at the writer's remote lake-side home with a timely offer. He'll be Akutagawa’s assistant, cooking, cleaning, doing whatever necessary, just to be close to the great author and his work. Most fortuitous of all, Akutagawa finds his young fan has a surprising talent for writing and hires him to ghostwrite his next novel. Yet is everything as lucky as it seems?

The View From the Bottom of the Lake

In the mountains of the Edo Period Japan, when a blind woman’s samurai father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own father’s death, she agrees to be escorted to the nearest village, but she’s not as helpless as she appears.

Yae: Blind Samurai Woman

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