Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer, but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.

After a neighbor's daughter throws some contemptuous remarks about his dead father, ten years old boy teaches the girl a cruel lesson thereby condemning himself in the eyes of the surrounding folk.

Three 13 year old friends live close to the airport and discover that something fishy is going on around the time the American foreign minister is about to land.

No one ever met the Hermit, and if he did, he did not recognize him by sight. His arrival always initiates a certain "domino principle", an "avalanche" of events, which changes everything beyond recognition. But in this strange place, called Station, it is already awaited. The search for God, the meaning and way of life, himself and his place in this cruel place are made of the people of Wanderers, those who never close their eyes and continue the eternal search.

Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.

The most representative heroes and characters from the traditional tales and legends of the Basque Country, guided by the word. A one-eyed 'tartalo' who's been up all night is swindled by a man because he's got the miracle ring he talks about. A naughty little Kukubiltxo makes the cows and burros talk when he hides in the ear of a donkey. A lying demonic Galtzagorri is unashamed.

Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.

A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.

Island emerged from Tan’s annual excursions to Gotland, an island off the east coast of Sweden, the location of the renowned Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film, The Sacrifice. Filmed in black and white, Island is comprised of shots that traverse a stark landscape of trees, horizon, and clouds. The slow camera work, coupled with the lack of human presence, creates a sense of unease in the viewer and evokes the feeling that time has been suspended. Voice-over narration recounts a woman’s experience and memories of an unnamed island, and allows the viewer to extrapolate meaning from the austere images presented. With Tarkovsky’s apocalyptic last film as a point of departure, Island represents for Tan an imaginary retreat in search of an appropriate individual response to threat, disruption, and danger.