Ellie a talented young musician with the opportunity of a lifetime is torn between obligation to her family and the chance to realize her dream. Saddled with the care of her five siblings as a result of an alcoholic mother a breathtakingly irresponsible father and a terrifyingly misguided preacher of a brother, Ellie falls in love with an aspiring young writer..
Coney Island, Leslie, ice cream, Mermaid Parade, Niagara Falls, home, Mia’s last breaths..
It tells the story of Yaz, who clings to her father's dream in Istanbul, where she came to study, and tries to realize that dream in secret from her mother..
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby..
Renvoyée de l'école et exilée en Australie, une ado new-yorkaise rebelle fait des vagues dans l'entourage proche d'un jeune surfeur, créant la pagaille dans son sillage..
In the distant Alaas near the forest, a lonely old man lives happily in a booth and is engaged in moonshine brewing. A teenage grandson comes to him for the summer holidays. The grandson is dissatisfied, thinks that he will be bored here. But not this time. It turns out that the old man has a chicken nest on the roof of the booth, in which eggs lie every morning. It's unclear where it came from, and where the chicken itself is. After a while, a stranger falls on their head and just as mysteriously disappears. A series of amazing meetings and events will make this summer unforgettable..
Kenichi Ichihara is absorbed in surfing, because he admires his father who is also a surfer. His father dies in an unexpected accident. Since then, Kenichi is estranged from surfing and the sea. One summer, by recommendation of Kenichi's friends Makoto Uehara and Daijiro Ohara, Kenichi decides to go to the sea. On the way to the sea, Kenichi meets two women Tsugumi and Emiko. He is pickpocketed by the women. When Kenichi gets to the sea, he happens to meet Tsugumi and Emiko again..
While suffering creative and emotional crisis, singer Katrin gives a poor performance at the pop music contest. She decides to turn over a new leaf and write a song that would convey an important message both for herself and for the audience. Katrin's personal drama - the story about her doubts and self-realization - is accompanied by the performances of well-known pop musicians of 1970s and 1980s..
Natsu spends a last summer alongside his friends, Aki, Fuyu and Haru, while writing a stage play to commemorate their time together. Shot entirely on 8 mm film, Kohei Sengen’s feature-length debut, with its grainy images steeped in muted colors, creates an almost dreamlike atmosphere, conveying the melancholy of growing up and growing apart..
The majestic mountain scenery of the town of Ubuyama-mura in southern Japan serves as the setting for this exploration of an inexhaustible cultural legacy. With the arrival of summer, Masae goes house to house collecting traditional songs in a search for poems dating back over one thousand years..
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before..
Harbin, au nord-est de la Chine : Xian, 15 ans, doit, le temps d’une mission de sa mère médecin en Afrique, retourner vivre chez son père. Elle l’estime aussi peu qu’elle l’a vu. Lui tient un petit studio de photo dont l’ambiance kitsch et glamour exaspère la solitaire Xian, au visage sévère. Elle est en revanche fascinée par la belle-fille de son père, jeune femme d'origine coréenne libre, bravache, non sans mélancolie..
