Embarking on a remarkable journey, Otep, a 16-year-old high school boy, faces a challenging narrative of education. It is where resources are as scarce as they are essential: as simple as a paper to write on and a pento write with. Realizing that his brother’s efforts in yielding meager wages will not make the cut in reaching for his dreams, Otep makes it his compass, resolving to carve his own destiny.

In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a...

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his...

A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rap...

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an...

A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of th...

This is the story that always appears in the dreams of Kokone, who eventually becomes a high school ...

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every leve...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the stre...

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no ...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational o...

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the ...

Rural England, winter 2013, Ruth and Juliet are waiting for the British Parliament to pass a legisla...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...