Malchow, German Democratic Republic, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s six-month-old daughter Inga behind. Inga grows up with her grandparents and thinks that her mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during one of his seminars. At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help. Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in search of Inga’s mother Anne...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to se...

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

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...

After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to t...

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong,...

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An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned...

The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a n...

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Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India a...

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lov...

After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, fall...

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a trans...

A child wakes up screaming every night. Horrible nightmares torment him, but when he wakes up he can...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...