What initially appears to be an unassuming portrait of everyday life in Lebanon—depicting familiar settings such as a hospital, a butcher shop, and encounters with nurses, taxi drivers, and Syrian and Ethiopian migrant workers—gradually unveils an illegal organ trafficking network and its operators. A chorus of characters interacts and weaves around Jean, the latest victim of this brutal profit scheme.
What initially appears to be an unassuming portrait of everyday life in Lebanon—depicting familiar settings such as a hospital, a butcher shop, and encounters with nurses, taxi drivers, and Syrian and Ethiopian migrant workers—gradually unveils an illegal organ trafficking network and its operators. A chorus of characters interacts and weaves around Jean, the latest victim of this brutal profit scheme.
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.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
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.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.