Between the city and the countryside, the subtle and modern forms of slavery unfold. A girl waits for the pick-up truck that will transport her to the city. Once there, amidst a never-ending row of walls and fences, she peeks into the entrance to a school. Lined up and in uniform, those girls are not the ones Carmen will join.

Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person ...

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...

William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abd...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tr...

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her grieving parents are left...

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...

A young girl tries to keep her "gama-gutchi" alive while her father is in a coma, at risk of becomin...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells ca...

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive...

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

When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven ...

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce oce...

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he find...

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his ...

Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she ...