Dealing with the loss of a mother at such a young age is not easy, either for the person or for those around them. Only certain people have the knack for saying the right words to help. In a dentist's waiting room, Alexandra has a conversation that will change her life forever.
Gloria Muñoz
Chloe Fernández
Jesús Granda
Dealing with the loss of a mother at such a young age is not easy, either for the person or for those around them. Only certain people have the knack for saying the right words to help. In a dentist's waiting room, Alexandra has a conversation that will change her life forever.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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.
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.