Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...

The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

Maria has always managed to make ends meet running her cafe full-time until Caspian; her former love...

A glance at the divided U.S. political system through the eyes of a young Syrian refugee on the stre...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational o...

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the ...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when ...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm ...

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Als...

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be ab...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...

In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams ...