Four scenes mounted side by side engage in a mutual dialogue. In it, Saphira, a black woman with a Jewish mother who immigrated from England to Vienna and Muslim father from Ghana to Vienna, speaks with changing counterparts. In talking with one another, one’s own history turns out to be more than simply written down. It’s first constructed, experienced, and questioned in relationship to others.
Four scenes mounted side by side engage in a mutual dialogue. In it, Saphira, a black woman with a Jewish mother who immigrated from England to Vienna and Muslim father from Ghana to Vienna, speaks with changing counterparts. In talking with one another, one’s own history turns out to be more than simply written down. It’s first constructed, experienced, and questioned in relationship to others.
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, reimagining Latasha Harlins' story by excavating intimate memories shared by those who loved her.
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and complex woman.
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 Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."
Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.