Upon Starvation

During a common night dancing with friends, a 19-year-old boy meets an older man who promises him a better life in exchange for sex and company.

A humorous reflection on today’s dating culture. The title refers to an economic term describing a marketing strategy in which the premature...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named...

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a...

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the...

When a happily married couple go on a routine staycation, the wife demonstrates that she knows her husband better than he knows himself.

Louis Friedman, a gay man reeling from a bad break-up, wants to know what the ugliest part of himself is. One day, a strange woman arrives and shows...

Lonely and closeted, Xiao-Wei turns to the internet—until real-life feelings bring more questions than answers.

On a winter evening in 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity,...

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

A Latino barber in a macho world faces a tough road ahead when an attraction develops for a handsome stranger during a hot and sweaty summer in...