Bachir, twenty-five, is looking to leave, perhaps to France. He waits every morning for the postman to come. The visa response is slow in coming. Bachir is bored, going around in circles. A rumor then fills this void: the possibility of changing the weekend. Saturday-Sunday is supposed to replace Thursday-Friday.

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Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live the...

A middle aged widower Sanna has emigrated to Sweden after her husband's death . She lives in Linköpi...

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A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow C...

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mou...

Leila, a 28 year old Syrian American woman, anxiously awaits the outcome of her mother’s immigration...

A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her co...

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Robert Kongaika runs from his family to join the military and becomes the first Tongan US Air Force ...

While he tries by all means to stay out of the bloody upheavals caused by the battle of Algiers, Has...

The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widowed and childless. A whole ser...

In the city of Constantine, the thwarted love affair of two students: Houria, fatherless, from a poo...

In 1957, the Battle of Algiers intensifies. Hassan, a peaceful resident of the Casbah, is mistakenly...

In 1955, what was known as the "Algerian War" gradually escalated into all-out war, and the French a...