Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic monastery. While she waits for her fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna finds out she is pregnant. The choice she will have to make and the arrival of the refugees will give rise to concern within the religious community and will challenge their concept of Christian charity.

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are f...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she ...
Franny, a German teenager, sets out to the USA in the desert of New Mexico. In the wake of 9/11, she...
Three separate stories – a mother, her teenage daughter, and a police officer – converge thanks to o...

An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who f...

An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "s...

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken h...
Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rust...

Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered lif...

Anna, a young photojournalist from Berlin, travels to Serbia to make a photo documentary about refug...

A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fort...

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turi...

An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly b...

Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and th...

An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork ...

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble...

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desi...

A Nigerian refugee struggles to integrate into Australian society after escaping the clutches of Bok...

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with...

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her...