Kessler's Lab

In a future shaped by war, AI, and fractured timelines, five sci-fi stories explore humanity’s fight for connection, survival, and meaning...

Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation.

A teenage Catholic school girl has been thinking ‘unnatural passions’ and feels she must confess. As she stumbles over her carefully...

Fighting to reunite with their children, 'Tough Love' chronicles the lives of two parents with cases in the United States child welfare system as...

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her...

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair....

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the...

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and...

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide...

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...