On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.

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

In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all...

Winter 1975 - author Jeanette Aspen arrives at Lapinlahti Mental Hospital to meet her only child, ps...

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances...

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and...

Anna, 12, lives with her deaf mother in a loving bond, yet under humble conditions, that are a sourc...

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British ...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr....

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

When pretty dress-maker Andy joins a motley crew of brides-to-be for a grueling bridal boot camp, wh...

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
After an abortion, a woman roams the streets, engaging in a sequence of understated encounters bathe...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

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

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