‘Rabari: The People of the Leopard’ looks at the lives of the Rabaris of the Jawai-Bera area, whose lives have been directly affected by the presence of the leopard, and attempts to understand the nuances of economic migration, the cost of unwanted industrialisation and traditional belief systems.

An intimate portrait of a sweet shop that has been an anchor for the Japanese-American community in Little Tokyo since 1903. The ingredients of the brightly-colored pieces of mochi-gashi that line Fugetsu-Do's wood-paneled cases include so much more than rice flour and sweet bean paste. Mixed inside are stories of joy and pain, tradition and racism, legacy and loss. Survival is never easy; it’s complicated and messy, full of contradictions and surprises. In the three generations that the Kito Family has been running Fugetsu-Do, the store has become a memory bank for the community and the stories that line its walls could not be more relevant in today's America.

Yoshida is a self-proclaimed 'tears teacher'. A firm believer that regular crying promotes healthier living, he’s made it his mission to make more people weep. 'Tears Teacher' is an intimate portrait of a man eager to challenge society's stigma on mental health, and swimming against the tide of a suffocating society.

The “stay at home” experience of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic exhibited through domestic rituals, news and audio clippings, film fragments, and observations on media. To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many withdrew to their homes as "shelter in place" orders were placed to stop the spread of the virus. As a result, people consumed media at a much higher rate. Television, movies, music, news, and podcasts were doom-scrolled on screens, as social and political events occurred throughout the tumultuous year. SUN/SET weaves these experiences of 2020 together in a critical look at these habits and observes how we view the past/present.

ICE doesn’t just separate families at the border. In the outskirts of Boston, three families face the impending threat of deportation. But as refugees from Cambodia and Vietnam, they know they’ll have to fight together to stay together. This film is the director’s effort to show the true lives of so-called “bad immigrants.” The protagonists aren’t idealistic youth, but rather middle-aged parents. They aren’t high-achieving students, but rather former convicted felons who have since rehabilitated. They aren’t undocumented, but in fact, members of the largest wave of refugees to ever be allowed into the US.

Geetha, a control and order loving Indian-American woman, finally has sex with Vehd one afternoon but things quickly turn messy when period blood stains her pristine couch and a fight erupts mid-coitus, causing her pent-up feelings to spill over.

During her holidays, a girl saves on a panda and takes care of the family's prayer shrine when she notices that a Buddha figure has disappeared.

A young woman from Korea struggles to settle down in her new home in Germany due to her lacking language skills. When she befriends a Korean-German woman she sees a way to escape her helplessness and loneliness. But her new friend doesn't seem to be as helpful as she pretends to be...

On a visit to her family in America, a grandmother is left to find companionship with a pet fish as she slowly comes to terms with losing her independence.

A titillating spiritual comedy about seeking your joyful, deepest nature through technology, human connection...and sweat.

Social-media and image obsessed Lili wants to get fit so she hires Lorenzo to be her trainer. Intense and mysterious, Lorenzo's passionate and unique methods lead Lili on a very unexpected journey.

After a year of separation, a young Taiwanese American girl and her mom struggle to reconnect with her dad and two older sisters across familial and cultural divides.

Marco and Elisa meet for one night in Los Angeles after not seeing each other for over twenty years, sparking dormant feelings they never confronted in their youth.

Lata, a 22 year old domestic worker, navigates her way through an upper class home in South Mumbai. Within her earshot exists a milieu of drivers, delivery men, other maids and watchmen that support and maintain the apartment building and the people who call it home.

Doors consistently open and close, establishing an architectural blueprint of the ways in which space divides and restricts access. Lata quietly navigates these divides asserting her own, often unnoticed, agency.

A woman experiments with lucid dreaming to find her missing daughter.

A troubled teenage girl is coerced into seeing a local shaman in search of spiritual healing. Trapped by ancient beliefs that serve only to pacify her mother, she finds peace in the physical realm by unleashing her repressed, youthful spirit on the unsuspecting shaman when she realises his true identity.

When a man awakens, hungover, in a hotel room and realizes he cheated during a drunken night, a sinister stairwell forces him to tell the truth or risk everything.

Makoto, a Japanese American single mother struggles to reconcile with her estranged father, Musashi, following his recent release from prison. But Musashi's former life as an enforcer for the Yakuza casts a long shadow over both their lives and history has a way of repeating itself.

Homecoming is around the corner and Sarah needs a dress. Though she has the perfect one in mind, her mother insists it is too short and takes it upon herself to sew up a solution. With the help of some sick beats, fresh roti and a well-meaning but overlooked classmate Henry, Sarah finds the beauty in the different parts of her identity.

Sixteen-year-old Yaejin Kim (Sua Cho) lives in a gauzy, hormonal daydream, dilly-dallying on the streets and in the sheets, with her boyfriend Wes (Dan Lee). Enamoured by her first love, she keeps her relationship a secret from her Christian mum, Hae Rin (Ha Jin Park), a Korean nail technician, as their one year anniversary celebration nears.

Their anniversary crumbles into chaos when Yaejin realises she is pregnant on their trip. Her fantasies of adulthood break down, and she begins to realise she needs the person she has pushed away most, her mother.

Sixteen is a coming-of-age short film blending vignettes of domesticity with chaotic K-Pop fantasies in an honest exploration of intergenerational difference in a vivid portrait of Korean-New Zealand girlhood.

In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between chopping green beans and packing takeout orders, she attempts to hang on to a semblance of normalcy by studying for her driver’s permit and prepping for her high school Zoom theater debut in “The Tempest”.

Min Xian, a young pop idol, goes back to her hometown when her career is stalled by a scandal suddenly. However, she finds her fear does not lose at all.

Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.

"unpot" features Kyung-Ja, a woman with Alzheimer's disease, and describes her last day before she is sent to a nursing home; this is her last day outside of confinement. For her children and others around her, she is a problematic old lady, but she has her own world and her last desires. The movie follows her throughout her day: from the morning when her older daughter helps her to pack her belongings, to the evening as she spends the night with her younger daughter.