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.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. W...

"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-ye...

Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and ...

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...

Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mex...

In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a d...

Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, w...

A very stressed young woman is dismayed to find herself behaving like her own mother, with whom she ...

When ordering food, we often put on a happy face. But when do we take that mask off if ever? Tripp (...

Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a g...

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recov...

A harrowing look into the daily struggle of an average water bottle.

Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focu...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take t...

An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former hig...

A woman saves a man in turtoil, ready to jump off a building. Now, as a widower with a baby girl, Sa...

At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide t...