A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backw...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of...

A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tr...

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forc...

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...