A film directed from exile: through her brother’s lens, the director seeks to capture the lives of Iran’s nomadic women who weave carpets – a powerful metaphor for feminine creation and resistance. Their collaboration also carries a symbolic weight: patriarchal structures seem to be repeated on the surface, yet in truth it is the woman who leads, decides, and shapes the narrative.
A film directed from exile: through her brother’s lens, the director seeks to capture the lives of Iran’s nomadic women who weave carpets – a powerful metaphor for feminine creation and resistance. Their collaboration also carries a symbolic weight: patriarchal structures seem to be repeated on the surface, yet in truth it is the woman who leads, decides, and shapes the narrative.
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
This character-driven film considers the evolving sex trafficking landscape as seen by the main players: the exploited, the pimps, the johns that fuel the business, and the cops who fight to stop it.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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.