A voice that claims to belong to a hippopotamus. A voice that does not understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and only hippopotamus ever killed in the Americas, tells his story.

In a polyandrous village in the Himalayas, the pregnant Pema faces scrutiny after her main husband vanishes. She goes in search of him, accompanied by her secondary husband, Karma. Her quest evolves into a journey of self-discovery and liberation.

1985, New Ross, Ireland. Bill Furlong, a devoted family man, toils as a coal merchant. An encounter at the local convent forces Bill to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.

Upper Austria, 1750. Agnes, a young married woman, feels like a stranger in her husband’s world. A shocking act seems to be her only way out. A profound and disturbing psychological portrait of a woman, based on historical court records.

Prison guard Eva faces the dilemma of her lifetime when a young man from her past is transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, she asks to be moved to his block.

A woman plays a child’s recorder in the park. She says she is from France. With no means of support, she has been advised to teach French and takes two Korean women as her pupils. She likes to lie down on rocks and drinks makgeolli for a bit of comfort.