2024-09-29
Terri is an often bullied, overweight teen. When he decides to stop trying in school, the garrulous principal, Fitzgerald, becomes concerned. However, what was meant to be a counselling course for Terri becomes a journey of healing for both protagonists.
After surviving a car crash when running away from home, Tia finds herself having nowhere to go. Seeking out the family of the crash victim, she moves in with them and threatens to upend the familys delicate balance.
After surviving a car crash when running away from home, Tia finds herself having nowhere to go. Seeking out the family of the crash victim, she moves in with them and threatens to upend the familys delicate balance.
When a reunion with her childhood friend proves disastrous, a French Muslim woman escapes to a remote cabin in upstate New York. However, her paranoia and the presence of an Islamophobic American couple disrupt her selfreflective retreat.
In this parable of migration, Rekia, 70 yearsold, leaves Kabylie for Paris to fetch her husband, Nour, back home. Nour has been sustaining the family from abroad for 40 years. Finding help in new friends, she finds Nour but he is a changed man.
Jacqueline adopts two children from a foreign country with her husband. To help with translation, the kids are accompanied by Gabriele, a twentyyear old who is just starting to taste the sweetness of feeling power.
In the secular environment of a Brooklyn school, an Orthodox Jew and a Muslim teacher find solace in one another as they navigate many roadblocks from facing discrimination by the principal against their religious attire to arranged marriages.
A migrant Turkish family living in Almanya, Germany struggles with the question what is really home as they decide to return to Turkey? As they reminisce, quarrel, and reconcile, the journey takes an unexpected turn.
Keti and her son Nika find themselves in huge trouble when he hits an old man with his car. With the victims family threatening to press charges, Keti must find a way to raise a huge sum of money or Nika might go to prison.
Mehdi, a 30yearold man living with his mother in the housing projects, finds himself with a tidy sum of money after winning the lottery. He decides to play high rollers in Monaco with the money, and assumes a new identity as a Moroccan prince.
Returning from the US, Pedro comes home to his family in Mexico. With the money he has made, he hopes to secure a better life with his family, mend his relationship with them, and hopes to achieve his lifelong dream of starting a band.
Masha has grown up between the boxing ring and the streets of her provincial Russian town. Her closest friends, young gangsters who are loathed by the entire town, love and protect her. And suddenly the cruel truth about them is revealed to her.
Honza films the Russian invasion of 1968 in Prague and takes the politically charged movie and actress Eva, the love of his life, on a secret trip to Vienna. There they meet a director who knows Eva very well and the Czech Secret Service even better.
Ting, a young air stewardess, navigates her new role as a caregiver for her grandmother while building a relationship with her distant father.
The intimate and emotional biography of Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack, from an independent and curious child to the first female director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory.
Philosophy professor Paolo is a single father who finds himself losing his teenage daughter to her social media addiction. His efforts to dissuade her from using social media ironically results in Paolo becoming a social media influencer himself.