At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, excep...

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fa...

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...

Based on the novel by Vasiliy Shukshin "The Lyubavines". In the winter of 1922, the Rodionovs, Vasi...

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki p...

Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses ...

Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only...

A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the imp...

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is run...

As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks h...

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoidi...

In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tubercul...

Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo w...

Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of...

It's the early 90's. A new currency is in circulation in Estonia - the kroon. The former federal rep...