Ryusuke, mourning his wife, ceaselessly crafts salt, even during her funeral. Witnessing this, granddaughter Midori probes his motives. Safeguarding the region's unique salt-making legacy is Ryusuke's mission. In conversing with salt, he strives to pass down its ancient flavor. Could Ryusuke's bond with salt link him to his departed wife?
Drama
On the Edge of Hope
In 1947, in a small town in New Zealand, rationing essential goods became a way of life after the war. Helen McCrae, a Middle-aged woman's life disintegrates as she is waiting for news of her son Adam from the front lines.
Tinnitus
A Tibetan girl named Yuzhen came back to Lhasa from studying in the interior China for her grandmother's funeral. Unexpectedly, getting the altitude sickness prevents her from lighting a lamp for the late grandma. In her dream, she found the grandma in a temple, and what happened in that journey has created some subtle connections to the real life.
A Way to B
A Way to B is a portrait of the flamboyant, Catalan dance collective Liant la Troca, of which some of the performers have a physical disability.
Fluently merging documentary and dance into each other, the hybrid film is an ode to zest for life and love.
Left On Our Own
An elderly taxi driver, who happens to be a tireless storyteller, is a man of contradictions: a hopeless romantic and a crude observer of life who has lived through individual hardship and witnessed the despair of others. Friends and strangers, cheap décor, lonely buildings, a life-long correspondence that encapsulates a relationship, numbing melodies from an ancient music box all swirl and blend in this film’s poetic vision.
PACO
While keeping a secret from his family overseas, Paco struggles to uphold his responsibilities and aspirations.