Bonfires on the Towers

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

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.

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.

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.