Jonathan von Mering

Novelist Judy and her husband Mack move into an idyllic country home for a fresh start in their marriage, only to learn that the tragic cycle of their past is inescapable.

After recording the final words of a terminally ill hospice patient, a videographer must decide whether to reveal the troubling video to the patient's only daughter, knowing its contents could profoundly change her life.

In late 1943, an American squad engages in a skirmish with German soldiers along the Winter Line in central Italy. As artillery shells rain down, the Americans must honor the rules of war and protect their wounded prisoners. Huddled together in a cave and made to see the enemy as human, the soldiers wrestle with unimaginable moral questions outside the boundaries of nationality and allegiance.

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

A Filipino musician discovers an unauthorized copy of his song made by a rival content creator, leading to a multilingual and multicultural musical duel over social media.