After his last tour, Aurélien decides to settle in Japan with his wife Nanako, pregnant with their first child. In their new house in the Japanese countryside, Aurélien discovers an old armor that awakens strange creatures, the Yoka?s.
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
Dani and Kaitlin are two dreamers falling for each other on a romantic road-trip. The future is theirs - until they cross paths with a twisted family who have something much, much darker in mind.
After his last tour, Aurélien decides to settle in Japan with his wife Nanako, pregnant with their first child. In their new house in the Japanese countryside, Aurélien discovers an old armor that awakens strange creatures, the Yoka?s.
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.