Derya Celikkol

5 people from Turkey, discover themselves and each other in New York and embark new adventures.

An enigmatic run-away travels to the outskirts of New York City to track down the owner of a lost wallet full of cash. Along the way, she struggles to avoid her greatest fear - human interaction.

A songwriter, while struggling to write his next album, is visited by an unlikely character that helps him continue.

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

A struggling artist's mental state begins to deteriorate as he questions the faithfulness of his wife and her successful brother.