Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.

After a year abroad, seventeen-year-old Alf returns to his Catholic boys' school, only to find that ...

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim be...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

Margo wants to lose her virginity in order to finally be just like everybody else.

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to se...

High up on the Greek mountains, there is a remote village, whose residents strongly believe in myths...

A determined 16-year-old with albinism makes it her mission to become a professional model in her ho...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother ...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

Coming of age is difficult for any young boy, but it is a little harder for Jono Smith. His secret f...

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as th...