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Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin

A young man is desperate to get his girl back. His mission is to write some lovely poetry to her. He sets out in the woods, a quiet lonely place to inspire his thoughts. The words come and go, he's not so sure of what's he doing but he tries anyway, from time to time throwing the scribbled papers of poorly delivered lines on the ground. But it seems that the forces of nature will find a way to help him with this torment.

Based on an English academic’s memoir on stalking and being stalked, a digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist.

Dramatic love fight break up between to lovers.

An experimental poetic short exploring queerness, vulnerability and society’s ideas around the romanticism of love. This project centers societies’ forced delusions around romance and sexuality.

Screened at the 2015 San Diego Asian Film Festival. A deaf woman fell in love. However, it was a love that never came true. A silent drama of a woman and a man

This endearing featurette examines the love lives of the Peanuts characters and it also looks at how creator Charles Schultz's own personal views on love and relationships influenced his work.

A young virtuoso composer secretly falls in love with his sister's fiancé. His tragic unspoken feeling teaches him to use the power of music to express his true self.

2013 release

The child becomes busy when school is over. He secretly follows his friend again today. The child talks about the feelings of his first love: soft or itchy, light or heavy.

Three young women live together in an old house in a corner of Tokyo. They are not related by blood, but they have been bound together by a strong bond for 12 years. They care about each other and spend their own ordinary days together. The matter of unrequited love arises for them that they can't tell anyone.

With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

A loyal henchman is ordered by his boss to keep an eye on his mistress, and trouble begins when he refuses to kill her.

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the owner of a host bar over to the place where Ryo Morinaka works. Shizuka Mido is the owner of the host bar. Soon, Ryo Morinaka begins to work for Shizuka Mido at the members only host bar. He feels embarrassment initially, but he fulfills the desires of women and develops a sense of purpose.

Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life changes.

A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Mitsuki and Yuya become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. One day, Mitsuki becomes possessed by the spirit of Hiyori. Hiyori likes Yuya and believes Yuya can help her get to heaven. Hiyori places a leather chastity belt upon on Mitsuki and a plan takes place to help send Hiyori to heaven.

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Joy, a successful designer, seeks a proposal at Christmas. In Wyoming's mountains, she finds what she truly needs when the man she loves sees her as just a friend.