The story of David and Miriam, a Jewish refugee couple settling in an immigrant camp in the Israeli desert. Disheartened by the conditions in the immigrant camp, Miriam attempts to reach Haifa in the hope of reuniting with her family in Marocco. David goes after her, trying to bring her back safely. Miriam learns from the people she meets about reasons to stay and develop young Israel.
Mala Powers
Miriam
John Drew Barrymore
David
James Dunn
Yigal
Fay Wray
Leah
William Ching
Joseph
The story of David and Miriam, a Jewish refugee couple settling in an immigrant camp in the Israeli desert. Disheartened by the conditions in the immigrant camp, Miriam attempts to reach Haifa in the hope of reuniting with her family in Marocco. David goes after her, trying to bring her back safely. Miriam learns from the people she meets about reasons to stay and develop young Israel.
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.
After moving from New York City to Indiana, a 12 year old navigates his parents' divorce, his impending bar mitzvah and his new school's social circles.
Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family adopted him. The two families are soon in a legal battle for the child they both love.
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.