Two Gates of Sleep (2010)

La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L’Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of…

After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village. She moves near the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses in northern Brazil and…

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable…

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine.

A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is…

Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet – a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a…

A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst. Now, in order…

Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media.

Columnist Peyton MacGruder befriends a reader who sent her a note that inspires Peyton to reconsider the choices she’s made and her reluctance to accept her boyfriend’s marriage proposal.

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where…