Set in 2006 on a fishing island in the Philippines, Maya bears the weight of her family’s survival while longing for college. Love sparks with Nilo, a fisherman, but poverty overshadows their joy. When a friend suggests seeking a foreign sponsor, Maya must choose between family, survival, and the fragile love she’s found.
Canada
Motel Grand-Pre
In Gaspésie, a remote region of Quebec, a quirky Chinese motel owner navigates his quiet routines between fixing rooms and casting lines into the sea—until his filmmaker son visits for a week. What begins as an interruption gradually unfolds into an exploration of distance, care, and the delicate ways a father and son learn to share time together.
Diamond Belly
Alex’s grandfather is dying of stomach cancer. When the old man starts claiming those aren’t tumours in his belly, but pilfered diamonds from a long-forgotten heist in the old country, family secrets and myths collide as Alex grapples with her newfound inheritance resting in a dying man’s stomach.
Ramón Who Speaks to Ghosts
After a volcanic eruption, Ramón walks the island of La Palma with his microphone, looking for ghosts.
Airborne
Marie Dubreuil' at 105, with her story of the first baby born in air in 1948 and the profound work of the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance.
Living waters (ᐃᒪᕐᒥᐅᑕᐃᑦ ᐆᒪᔪᑦ )
Living Waters is a journey through the Inuit way of life, rooted in the Arctic. David Nanuk, an elder from the Taloyoak community, repairs a stone fishing dam and passes on his knowledge, just as he received it from his ancestors.