In India seventy percent of burn cases are women. Many of these cases are attributed to dowry practice. Although the Dowry Prohibition Act was passed in 1961, it has been a disastrous failure with respect to enforcement. This powerful documentary by Meera Dewan focus on the cases of two dowry victims.
In India seventy percent of burn cases are women. Many of these cases are attributed to dowry practice. Although the Dowry Prohibition Act was passed in 1961, it has been a disastrous failure with respect to enforcement. This powerful documentary by Meera Dewan focus on the cases of two dowry victims.
A documentary directed by Winding Refn's wife, Liv Corfixen, and it follows the Danish-born filmmaker during the making of his 2013 film Only God Forgives.
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?