Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone...
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biologi...
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his...
Film set in a remote mountainous area where work and living conditions are harsh.
Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows ...
Adela is a single mother, hardworking and humble. While she works, her mother takes care of her son....
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end...
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she ...
After years of killing for a man only known as "The Boss", Serena is burnt out. When she is hired fo...
Unable to see, hear, or speak after a childhood illness, a young woman grows up prone to violent out...
In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster stru...
A former clergyman finds himself back in his old boarding school where the disturbances experienced ...
Three rookie teachers and one unenthusiastic assistant principal face a rambunctious student body, a...
After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods...
Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...
Beneath a magical tree lives a boy with his friend the owl in this whimsical cautionary tale about i...
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase...
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood a...
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a cl...
A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to b...