Sahar
"Caught Between Desire and Duty"
A young Afghan woman, promised a new life in New Zealand through an arranged marriage, is forced to confront both the expectations of her culture and her own yearning for independence.
"Caught Between Desire and Duty"
A young Afghan woman, promised a new life in New Zealand through an arranged marriage, is forced to confront both the expectations of her culture and her own yearning for independence.
Farangees Seddiqi
Sahar
Seema Seddiqi
Amina
Moe Essop
Karman
Sia Siafa
Talia
Lilly Williams
Jade
Kutumi Lefferts
Jay
Ethan Reed
Ethan
Farhad Kheiri
Sahar's Father
Sophie Walker
Passerby 1
A young Afghan woman, promised a new life in New Zealand through an arranged marriage, is forced to confront both the expectations of her culture and her own yearning for independence.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
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.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.