A young boy, sick of his parents' constant fights, starts his day as usual - he goes on the streets to spend some time alone before he has to go back into his so-called prison: home. Everything around him feels like it's mocking him but suddenly he discovers a powerful tool that illuminates the path by which his suffering might end, even if for just a little while.
A young boy, sick of his parents' constant fights, starts his day as usual - he goes on the streets to spend some time alone before he has to go back into his so-called prison: home. Everything around him feels like it's mocking him but suddenly he discovers a powerful tool that illuminates the path by which his suffering might end, even if for just a little while.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.