Like ghosts, the temporarily shut down cruise ships lie in the port of Hamburg. A young man comes into town and is stranded on the riverbank, waiting for a message. He watches couples strolling along in the sunset and gets himself some sweets. In a moment of collective pause, ISLANDS IN THE CITY captures a fragile romance. There is a departure in the air, the destination of which no one seems to know.

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

Deemo is a lonely individual who lives in solitude, playing the piano in a castle. One day, a girl w...

A woman saves a man in turtoil, ready to jump off a building. Now, as a widower with a baby girl, Sa...

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it h...

Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and hea...

A story of an acclaimed self-help writer, Ched Herrera, met an affectionate and outgoing Nurse named...

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the ...

Follows two couples meeting together for the first time after months of being on lockdown due to the...

Trey feels small. He is gay, HIV-positive and lonely in NYC. All around him are hulking, powerful me...

Belarus, Vileika district of Minsk region. Lonely elderly people are leaving for winter to the home ...

A pandemic, a time of hard lockdown, when contact with other people is severely limited. The most co...

Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss's two-minute submission to rbb.

Four young men are sitting in a car at a train crossing and waiting for the train to pass.

Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy b...

Friday, 11 p.m. Carla, a woman in her forties, is alone in her office. She gets a call. It's Raúl, a...

An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery...

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his h...