One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint a...

Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, 'Luc...

Thea, a lonely 19-year-old girl, struggles to learn how to skateboard on her own. When Thea meets a ...
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed...

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, E...

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who...

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric...

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain R...

Before heading off to college, a teenager and her two friends try to seduce a married man.
The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the...

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the...

Presents a day in the life of a few inhabitants of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands: A father and his d...

Two best friends attend the funeral of a Hebrew school classmate who died by suicide and accidentall...
Although hostess Brigitte and life-loving schoolgirl Paula only meet in person once, their fates and...
In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's ...

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tension...

16-year-old Gary Black is an average football player, budding wordsmith and reluctant hero. Gry help...

On one gloomy rainy night, a writer encounters an unexpected visit paid by a woman of his past. Seek...

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her ...