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- It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [José Carlos Rodríguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortés [Iñaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. All the while, the question remains: who is converting who?
- Alvaro (Wayne Hodges), a writer in early middle age, walks into a bar giving off an air of loneliness. When he sits down to order a Calvados, the writer locks eyes with Claire (Alisa Levinson), a younger attractive bartender used to the traffic of different, wandering souls into this establishment. They begin a conversation that skirts from confessional to subtly flirtatious. The independent, upfront Claire has heard it all before from men and is suspicious of Alvaro's sincerity. He in turn is married and feels the tension of lines that might suddenly be crossed. You can only know so much about a person from one exchange full of tumultuous chemistry, if ever. Everything from someone's name to the kind of drink served can be a lie in this bar, leaving Alvaro and Claire to decide how far they want to go.
- A film director has completed her latest feature and is confronted by the actress who helped bring it to life, but their bond runs much deeper than that.
- Set in 1970s Iran. Two young students from opposite ends of society meet by the sea in a time where revolution hangs in the air.
- A revisionist Western set after the Civil War in which both cowboys and Indians are struggling with personal conflicts while framed against the approach of the railroad and impending doom.
- A history professor meets with a department chair ready to accept a faculty position, but the only question remaining is how to define her identity in the application's check-box.
- Journey with the Mixtape Quartet as they leave their physical forms and enter realms inhabited by musical spirits from all times and space.