Stories made scene by scene

On the morning of the Lantern Festival, twelve-year-old Nia and her sky-fox kite race across the rooftops of a seaside city painted every colour there is, carrying the festival’s first flame to the harbour tower before the noon bells.

A detective crosses a rain-lashed iron bridge to a mansion that hangs above the sea, and learns that once the bridges are raised, nobody leaves.

A lighthouse keeper on a black promontory keeps to his routine while the fog below the tower begins to move with a pulse of its own.

A young man leaves his family in northern Brazil for Rio de Janeiro, where the city nearly swallows him before a chance collision outside a bakery gives him Cristina, and a reason to stay.

Two shelter dogs, one huge and one tiny, meet in the same strip of shade and learn to share a water bowl before they learn to trust each other.