"To Transfer"
Proudly from Paoay, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, Iyallatiw is a documentary featuring an old oral tradition on prayers for the dead. It pictures an almost dying tradition and the struggles of the manglualos in passing it to the future generation.
Proudly from Paoay, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, Iyallatiw is a documentary featuring an old oral tradition on prayers for the dead. It pictures an almost dying tradition and the struggles of the manglualos in passing it to the future generation.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
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.
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.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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.
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.