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- A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father.
- Writers and editors from the New York Times discuss their unique approach to writing the obituaries of public figures.
- A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.
- Set in a post-apocalyptic world and adapted from William Shakespeare's epic tale of honor, ambition, betrayal, and the supernatural.
- Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
- A young man, Wendell finds a lemon on the sidewalk, takes it home, and becomes, somewhat against his own will, inordinately fond of it. Complications ensue.
- A Traumatized veteran's vision of Jesus leads him to renounce everything he owns and form a fraternity of oddball eccentrics to join him in Gospel poverty and homelessness on the streets of Brooklyn.
- A young single mother struggles against ominous forces, whom she believes are bent on taking her infant daughter.
- When the girl of his dreams returns, film student Arthur is torn between the love that nurtures him and the romance that excites him.
- A chance encounter on a bus brings together two young people. Stephen is painfully shy, and is returning to his bleak existence in the city. Grace, is full of expectation, and journeys to meet the father who abandoned her as a child. Upon arriving in New York City, they go their separate ways. Stephen returns to his quiet apartment, sure that he's blown another opportunity. Grace, meanwhile, confronts her father, only to discover that he's nothing like the image she has built up of him all these years. He is, in fact, a broken down alcoholic, unwilling to let anything breach his isolation, including his daughter. She leaves him shattered. That evening, reunited, Stephen gives Grace a tour of New York City at night. Though her eyes, he comes to see some of the magic and beauty of his lonely world. Briefly, the two have found shelter from their unhappiness. "Sometimes it's not so bad, you know? The whole existence thing," Stephen tells her. "Sometimes there are things that come along to redeem the whole experience. Like gifts, you know?"