Jericho Mansions (2003)

An aspiring pilot fights for her future — and justice — after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.

Carol Morley’s debut short uses the iconography of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – to explore the story of a girl’s relationship with her father, and…

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña’s past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and…

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties…

A man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy’s mother died.

Three flight attendants, Leslie, Sara, and Claire share a one-bedroom apartment. Remarkably, everyone’s home at the same time and Leslie and Claire have dates. As they try to determine who…

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie’s abusive father marries her…

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the…

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon…

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland…

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age,…