Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the ...

After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that ...

Time goes by and Lebanon continues to sink. Between past and present, sleep and wakefulness, dreams and reality, Réda, Adel, and Qassem just ...

Twelve-year-old Janna and her grandmother set off on a life-changing journey across the country to find Janna’s teenage sister, Sarah, who ...

Two childhood friends from a small village in northern India chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as ...

Nagasaki, 1964 – After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki ...

A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story ...

You Man-su is a happy man who works as a manager in a paper factory. He loves his wife, his children, his dogs, and his home. When he is fired, his ...

In October 2009, 68-year-old Javier Chocobar, a member of the Indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán ...

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her ...

A father and son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for their daughter and sister, who vanished ...

In the 1990s, while people throughout Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, Saddam Hussein requires that each school in the country ...

Mahnaz, a 40-year-old widowed nurse, struggles with her rebellious son, Aliyar, who has been suspended from school. Family tensions reach a peak ...

A poverty-stricken farmer, escaping his barren village, is drafted into the French army during WWII. Later, he passionately joins the fight for his ...

In the 1950s, Saïd Effendi, a schoolteacher, moves with his family to a new home in a modest neighborhood of Baghdad after being forced by his ...