Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female workers from Seok-yoon, the owner of the photo studio across from the factory. Seok-yoon, who had been closed, began to open his heart to female workers, but began to feel uneasy about the female workers' labor movement.
The true and inspiring story of Brother Guo Jian Nan — the selfless individual who dedicated his life to the Poverty Alleviation Program. The beautifully shot film shows Guo Jian Nan’s journey to a impoverished town to help them achieve a better reality. As the town is built back to life, Guo Jian Nan’s health starts to deteriorate. After spending a lifetime helping others, can Brother Guo Jian Nan help himself?
Young Romanian Adrian works as a hustler in Zurich's underground in order to get his sister Ioana out of Romania and to Zurich, where they can both have a better future.
Iranian couple Leily and Mahyar move to Sweden so that Leily can pursue her graduate degree. With the culture shock and the language barrier, Mahyar finds himself struggling to find work with his engineering background and settles for a newspaper delivery job. Leily is thriving in her studies but realizes the changes are taking a toll on their relationship. The conflict builds to a fever pitch around something seemingly trivial. Meatballs, Facebook and misunderstandings can change the course of their relationship.
Andrea has the perfect husband and the perfect career. Her marriage to Troy Daniels is ripped from a storybook. But, something is missing. Things My Daddy Should've Told Me follows three best friends - with an unbreakable bond - on an emotional journey to find the love, support, and knowledge that they should've had all along. Can they stop the generational curses before they set in? Or is too late?
On the stage of a destroyed theater, we saw a play in which Elizabeth, Mercedes and Crisalida, three black women at different stages of life, relive everything they suffered from the interpretation of their own conflicts in the form of inner monologues.
A rapper is accused of rape by a beautiful video vixen. He says he didn't rape her and the sex was consensual. She says he raped her and he feels women are sex slaves. One of them will be exposed as a liar when the truth is revealed.
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.
Makoto Mioya, a highly successful Japanese author and publisher, has a life-threatening, near-death experience. Powerful spiritual beings with whom he has communicated most of his adult life visit Makoto to remind him he has the power within to heal himself. Reborn, Makoto commits his life to sharing the almighty wisdom he receives from the spiritual realm. As doubters, including some of his own family, challenge and question his new-found ardor, Makoto must find a way to connect with his family and the ‘family of man’ to inspire a better world.
A love story about identity and place in a post Brexit Europe. Koffee, an African migrant, and Fanny, a French Waitress are two lost souls who attempt to find home in one another and escape the labels that inevitably leave them homeless.
Arianna, a young and brilliant transexual lawyer is ready to deal with an interview for the job she desires. Now, after a long self-acceptation path, the only thing she needs is a job that would permit her to be independent and have a normal life.
Charles, a young man recounts his life story. In his audio recording he shares the beauty and the ugliness of his life. How there can be such joy and such despair in the same moments? As he journeys through his story it becomes evident that something is tormenting him.
Indigo is a dramatic short film about alienation on the inside. Two young, lost souls in New York City share a common struggle - they are stuck in lives they do not feel they belong to. She is an adored actress and he, a bike messenger. On the outside they seem like each other's opposite, but on the inside they are the same- dehumanized by an internal loneliness that alienates them from feeling alive.
The story of three women who wanted to try something new with their life: Diamond who is getting cheated on by her girlfriend is being shown interest by a persistent man who will not give up. Poochie who is in love with Shay, her other best friend, knowing that she is only interested in men tries to figure out a way to let her know without causing any problems within their friendship.
Set in an East Toronto neighborhood, THE RIVER YOU STEP IN is about a maverick social worker and the troubled people she tries to help, and engages with issues of domestic abuse, addiction, and racial prejudice.
Joseph Smith (1805-44), the founder of the Mormon Church, is profiled. "When so many were looking for answers to questions larger than life," says narrator Gregory Peck, "[Smith] said that he had them." But many disagreed, and the life of "Brother Joseph" - as chronicled here in readings, re-creations, and comments by historians (some of them Mormons) and LDS officials - was marked by frequent flights from enemies.