A 12-year old girl – Ekah (Faith Fidel) is inspired by the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner – Malala Yousafzai’s. She is determined to go to school in a village of fisherman where the education of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning drive and determination to break this old adage gets her embroiled with her father’s – Solomon (Kang Quintus) past experience with girl child education.
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This second edition of Stone Bench Creations’ anthology of short films contains four shorts with a prelude that are linked by their genre.
Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious, violent creature that starts stalking their small house will put the relationship that unites them to the test.
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
Private detective Sadık is tasked with finding a popular blogger who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
A tragic meditation on what it means to simply be. A rambling woman stranded in a strange rural town is forced to confront her own existence.
Prior to fighting for her country, Kirnay, a withdrawn boxer must fight the battle for her freedom.
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.