Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abd...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the ...

Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how ...

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship ou...

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of a...

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of ...

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge find...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to wri...

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. T...

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowb...

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at...

West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various...

Director: Sheikh Niamat Ali Writers: Sheikh Niamat Ali (dialogue), Sheikh Niamat Ali (screenplay) |...

The friendship between an elderly peddler and a middled aged fruit merchant.