Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the local turkey factories. Tânia (The Mother of the…

Magistrate Hwang’s daughter Jin-yi, is jilted before her wedding because a shoe maker was smitten with her and commits suicide. Jin-yi becomes a courtesan, and becomes famous for her wits…

Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he…

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

Three stories examining what it means to live, find connection, deal with trauma, and do more than just exist, in the rural landscape of small mining town in West Virginia.

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of…

Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test…

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.

A wild young girl runs away from her parents’ house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child…

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a…

An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they’re shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.