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A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

This near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Similar in design to early German expressionist fi...

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.

When a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked, leader's wife Yana questions her desires as her familiar world crumbles.

Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their ...

A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.

The history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.

Delia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.

The impact of the decline of heavy industry on workers and their families in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, at the turn of the 21st century, documented unflinchingly by a fly-on-the-wall camera.

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

Alejandro, a cab driver, and his girlfriend Cecilia are in the midst of breaking up when they become adopted by a social group led by a bossy husband and wife team, Sergio and Susana.

After his bike and money gets stolen from him, Lucio struggles to find his place in the surrounding reality of Argentina in the 1990s.

The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown.

Anti-regime partisan Chandra confronts physical, social and political obstacles for his father's funeral. His search for a solution takes him to neighboring mountain villages and encounters with the police and rebel guerrillas. A ...

A married woman with a mute daughter has a forbidden relationship with the single father of a teenage boy.