In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.

After a year abroad, seventeen-year-old Alf returns to his Catholic boys' school, only to find that ...

When a young man drops out of school to care for his agoraphobic mother he too finds himself increas...

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim be...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...

Margo wants to lose her virginity in order to finally be just like everybody else.

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to se...

High up on the Greek mountains, there is a remote village, whose residents strongly believe in myths...

A determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her ho...

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother ...

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans co...

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hun...

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atl...