The story follows writer Gerard Mannix Flynn together with generations of his family who, for the first time, speak openly together about their childhood traumatic experience. They were removed from the family home and community and incarcerated in fierce children’s homes and industrial institutions run by religious catholic orders. The film examines the legacy of Institutional abuse by the Irish Church and State over the last century.

In 2017 Petter (24) decides to end his own life, but at the very last moment, is stopped by the police. His best friend and fellow film student Sverre is determined to help and suggests they make a film to keep Petter busy and focused on getting better. Equipped with a camera, they search the streets of Oslo to find out how other troubled souls deal with their lives.

Some strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: fire, a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky and a flash. The singularity of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a choir of people. An encounter with this strange phenomena can be surprising, dangerous or even fatal. The night isn’t as dark as it seems. The desert is full of all kinds of living beings. This emptiness is the place for everyone. Desert Lights invites us to open our eyes wide in the twilight and to listen to the sounds hidden in the blackness. A horror movie, in the darkness of the desert.

Ibn Kenyatta is in prison since 1974. In 2019, he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York state parole board. The words resonate from his cell with images of the great migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The story takes us from Alabama, his birthplace, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten.