A Long Breath

We all have pet peeves which make us say 'I could kill them'. Ava goes one step further and puts these thoughts into action.

A pregnant woman and her best friend navigate Beirut at night in order to obtain an illegal abortion.

Koki, a gardener in Guatemala City, hides a secret: he is a vampire. By day he lives with his wife, and young son; by night he feeds in the shadows. Together, the parents try to shield the boy from the curse. But when the hunger awakens in him, something irreversible occurs, sealing a tragic inheritance.

Aslan, a young insecure fisherman who lives on a Turkish island, finds a valuable lobster cave while diving. Knowing this treasure will bring him wealth and the prestige that he has never had in his society, he decides to keep it a secret from his cousin and best friend Yilmaz until he can properly harvest the lobsters by himself. By not sharing the secret, Yilmaz's growing suspicion conjures a series of paranoid obsessions that thrust him into a downward spiral.

Koki makes a living in Guatemala City by winning the trust of people while arranging the theft of their possessions. By day he is a guide to tourists who get mugged at gunpoint, by night he seduces men only to lead them back to Carlos’s hotel, where they will be robbed. Koki and Carlos function as two sides of the same coin, justifying these violent activities through the need to survive. When Koki becomes the target of one of his victims and, as a result, is swiftly replaced by Carlos with another young good looking boy, he can observe what had up to then been his life in what feels like a disembodied experience.

In the heart of the Guatemalan mountainous rainforest, a family deals with a state of slow decay. The mother is ill and is deteriorating rapidly. The father finds himself increasingly frustrated in the midst of his impotence. The teenage daughter is forced to take responsibilities beyond her age. The mountain constricts the family’s spirit until there’s nothing left.

A real estate agent begins to close the gap between her private experiences in a series of empty apartments and the very different life she leads in public.

Across three Uber journeys, a woman of colour explains who she is to people who have already made their mind up. A poignant exploration of cultural lines and the desire for connection.