A thirteen-year-old boy in Lagos goes to church at his mother's insistence and questions the pastor's definition of true happiness. The story brings together poverty, religious language and a child's direct anger to ask who gets to define happiness.

A boy's plain, sharp voice unsettles the meaning of happiness as it is preached between faith and poverty.

The story treats the pregnancy of a twelve-year-old girl in India through a charged, fable-like frame where faith, family and social pressure converge. An inexplicable event involving the body exposes the expectations and coercions of a community.

What happens to a girl's body draws out the desires of faith and community around her.

Ghillie's Mum won the Canada and Europe region in 2018 as a story concerned with mother and child, family expectation and the weight of care. Through domestic scenes, it traces the less visible anxieties and responsibilities inside intimate relationships.

Within the closeness of family, affection and anxiety become difficult to untangle.

A protagonist in midlife crisis heads into the wilderness in search of a mysterious woman and is drawn into the unease of a story he has heard. The boundary between civility and wildness, narration and reality, slips until the cost of the tale arrives in an unexpected form.

A strange tale heard in a bar begins to alter the fate of the man who follows it into the wilderness.

On a wedding day in Samoa, Matalasi is surrounded by family and village expectation while suffocating between his gender identity and the imposed image of a bride. The story shows tradition, family honor and bodily norms pressing on one person's sense of survival.

Inside the bustle of wedding preparations, Matalasi faces a ritual that asks him to erase himself.