As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the ...

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fan...

Two souls: One seeks to know her life's true essence and the other is haunted by foreign sights of h...

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled w...

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the...

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral trad...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

A group of young girls stranded on an island, where they meet the reclusive Luca, who hides a dark s...

The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has...

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna go...

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influen...

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic ...

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newc...

A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old sh...

A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has ...

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce oce...

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her famil...

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