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Two women meet in a hospital about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, is exultant. Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. While they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors, Janis tries to encourage her. The few words they exchange creates a very close bond between [...]

Bolivia today. After walking for a week, Elder and his miner companions arrive in La Paz wanting their jobs back. But suddenly Elder starts to feel sick. He’s gasping and struggling for breath until Mamá Pancha sends him to see a witch doctor, who may be able to restore the young man’s health. Friday, 03.12.2021 [...]

France, 1963. In a society that censures women’s desires and sex in general, Anne, a young woman, decides to have an abortion to finish her studies and escape the social constraints of a working-class family. This simple but cruel story follows a woman who decides to go against the law. And Anne has little time [...]

1960s Rural Thailand, 1960s. The father imparts his philosophy onto his daughter, Maem, while the political tensions are rising and Maem is courted by two very different young men, a feeble rickshaw driver and an ambitious, ruthless army chief. Fifty years later, the latter has become a disgraced general. Maem nurses her abusive husband during [...]

Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted [...]

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be a whole lot different. SPENCER [...]

France, 1963. In a society that censures women’s desires and sex in general, Anne, a young woman, decides to have an abortion to finish her studies and escape the social constraints of a working-class family. This simple but cruel story follows a woman who decides to go against the law. And Anne has little time [...]

Set in the 1920s in the deep thickets of a Mayan tropical rainforest "Tragic Jungle" follows Agnes (Indira Andrewin), a young woman trying desperately to escape with her sister from the white British landowner she doesn’t want to marry. With the man armed and on her trail, she barely gets away, and is discovered by [...]

In the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow awaits her son’s return, only to learn of his demise. Yearning for her own death after the loss of her last remaining family member, she puts her affairs in order and makes arrangements to be buried in the local cemetery. Her careful plans are abruptly upset by [...]

A masseur from the East enters the lives of the rich residents of a bland, walled off community. Despite their wealth, the residents emit an inner sadness, a longing. The mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, his eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory [...]