Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight s...

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who ...

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...

A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by he...

Ben Sanderson believes he can travel to an alternate reality when he drinks alcohol, to see the love...

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...

Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the ...

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establis...

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day...

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, ...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...