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Martina is a successful neurosurgeon, happily married and mother of a pubescent daughter. She has everything under control – until she is raped by Mischa, the son of her best friend Jutta and her husband Torsten, while on a joint family vacation. When Martina’s husband Andi tells her friends about it, Martina has to face not only her trauma, but also the reactions and opinions of others.

The story unfolds with an allegorical inspiration from the well-known fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, in which the mermaid princess falls in love with the prince it saves from drowning, with a surprising twist of the mermaid being a young boy…

When Romina learns that her husband has been cheating on her, she turns to the town’s folk healer for help and obtains a love potion. But it seems the potion is working on everyone except her husband.

A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the driver about the important relationships in their lives.

Alexandre Varda, a powerful property developer of Greek origin, finds his life suddenly turned upside down. On the same day, he is sacked by his sharhold- ers and learns of the death of his daughter, whom he has not seen for 12 years. When he arrives in Greece the next day to repatriate the body, he also discovers that he is the grandfather of a 9-year-old boy with autistic syndrome…

When overworked graphic designer Roy faints, he wakes up to the beautiful Nurse Abi taking care of him. This starts Roy’s fantasy of going out and sleeping with Nurse Abi. But can he turn this fantasy into a reality?

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

Following her sister’s disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what’s left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow in Oklahoma City.

A young woman who secretly sleeps with her husband’s son. The two form an alliance to kill her husband but fate has other plans for Cita.

A married couple falls into depression after the death of their child. They turn to sex as a coping mechanism, but poverty takes its toll on them.

9 bullet wounds (one still in the body), three different sports and an unshakable determination to fulfill the dream of an Olympic Gold later, Muralikant Petkar, India’s first Paralympian to finish at the top of the podium, got the recognition by his own country 45 years after he achieved what no athlete from his country could.

Nisa and Aris’ initially happy household shakes when Nisa’s younger sibling comes to live with them.

A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she’s eager to make sense of her family’s past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

Sam is a young stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, who is weighing whether or not to join the search for Brooke, a missing girl she used to nanny.

Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling’s married partner die in a car accident. Makio Kōdai attends their funeral and meets her 15-year-old niece Asa Takumi, who is now left alone due to her parents’ death. The other relatives at the funeral speak insensitive words around Asa Takumi. Makio Kōdai gets furious at them and decides to take in her niece. Makio Kōdai, who has problems having relationships with other people, and Asa Takumi now begin to live together.

Gia is a struggling bartender who is also a kept woman of a politician. With a budding romance at work, Gia must fight the urge to see another man before it’s too late.

Two women hurt by the same man form an alliance to catch their womanizer boyfriend in the act. But their unexpected bond leads to an unlikely romance between them.