All the King’s Men (1999)

It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O’Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment…

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive,…

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with…

Set in Oxfordshire, 1998: a retired British colonel meets a Slovenian woman he realizes he may have saved from the Partisans after the end of World War II.

A harrowing tale about the effects of child prostitution in adult life.

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal…

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate…

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest…

Explores characters at life-defining moments regarding gender issues like period poverty, child marriage, HIV stigma, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school’s remains, setting the town…

Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as…