Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

After moving from New York City to Indiana, a 12 year old navigates his parents’ divorce, his impending bar mitzvah and his new school’s social circles.

14-year-old Amina from northern Ghana gets sent away to Burkina Faso by her mother to prevent her marriage to an elderly man. However, fate intervenes in the form of kidnappers…

Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters…

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house…

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show…

Middle school principal Addison Tate wants this Christmas to be special for her kids especially since the School Board has decided that it will be the last as the school…

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new…

When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear’s territory.

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out…

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates’ derision and the antipathy of her mother…