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Souleymane, 25, dreams of being a dancer in spite of having a paralyzed leg. At nightclubs, he transforms into the beloved dancer Grigris, impressing people with his moves. However, when his stepfather falls seriously ill, Souleymane desperately needs money and decides to work for petrol smugglers.

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the last remaining forests where the isolated Huaoranis still live, who to this day refuse to come into contact with civilization.

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Russian oil industry on the natives and the lands they inhabit.

Unable to travel home across closed borders after her mother's sudden and isolated death in China, a middle-aged immigrant named Mei grasps for consolation and connection while living alone in COVID-era New York until one afternoon, she encounters a familiar stranger on the streets nearby.

An overprotective mother tries to discourage her son from dating a new woman. Should he listen to her or follow his heart?

In the quiet simplicity of their lives, seven-months pregnant Maloti Rani and sanitary shop salesman Polash Das find solace and love, despite their ongoing hardship. Maloti's world shatters when a mall blast claims her husband Polash in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Unsure of her unborn child's future, she battles her in-laws and society, fighting to prove Polash's accidental death.

A teenaged horse guide stumbles into chaos as he tries to recover his precious phone data from the elusive 'cloud' - an internet phenomenon that is both new and confusing to him and his village.