Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
A young Marshallese boy, Labro, wakes up one morning anxious for his grandmother to fulfill her prom...
When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood’s School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school...
The life and journey of Hameed to find his biological mother and how his life changes when Aisha com...
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the futu...
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g...
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thou...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly att...
The little nomad girl, Nansal, finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend -...
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, ...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
When a petty crime thrusts him into the company of a feisty eighty-one-year-old African-American wom...
The film tells the story of two friends who want to disappear from life. While their country Belgium...
The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 rep...