Mother and daughter - Big Edie and Little Edie Beale - live with six cats in a crumbling house in East Hampton. Little Edie, in her 50s, who wears scarves and bright colors, sings, mugs for the camera, and talks to Al and David Maysles, the filmmakers. Big Edie, in her 70s, recites poetry, comments on her daughter's behavior, and sings "If I Loved You" in fine voice. She talks in short sentences; her daughter in volumes. The film is episodic: friends visit, there's a small fire in the house, Little Edie goes to the shore and swims. She talks about the Catholic Church. She's ashamed that local authorities raided the house because of all the cats. She values being different.
A friendship between two high-school girls gets progressively more emotionally abusive and co-dependent, until one of them is forced to face the way we let other people cast us in unwanted roles.
While living in America, a Cambodian teenager finds home inside the water of his high school pool.
Recently paroled Krystal must navigate the new rules and strong personalities of her local Christian halfway house if she has any hope of regaining custody of her estranged daughter.
Over a day of landscaping work, a first generation African American and his immigrant father have their tense relationship and different outlooks on life transformed irreversibly when they are racially profiled by police.
3 men are stranded adrift after surviving a fatal plane crash during WWll and must survive against sharks, dehydration, and famine for 47 days.
A high school senior and her Catholic family cope with her older brother who has returned from prison as a converted Muslim.
"The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the cloud is slowly eroding, the edges of the giant mountain. The dust of the fairy tale grinds the raw diamonds of life. A story by Gunnel Linde, to music by Bengt Hallberg, choreographer by Tyyne Talvo Cramér, starring Alice Babs.
Set in an alternate future where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear by channeling her rage into violent fantasies.
In the harshness of the Arizona desert a Mexican man and his son are faced with a major crisis of conscience as they try to cross the border illegally.
While taking care of her elderly employer, Rosa, an in-home caregiver, awaits news on her ailing mother who’s in another country and struggles to send her a gift that might fill Rosa’s absence.
Arthur arrives home with blood on his hands, to confront his lover and his demise.
A food delivery worker from Guerrero, Mexico tries to connect with his daughter as he rides anxiously through the streets of New York. One of these deliveries turns out to be a very bitter surprise.
An African-American twenty-something finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their apartment building hallway and is manipulated by a friend into murdering him.
An actress, Lilith Grasmug, describes her hotel room.
Gina was a Montenegrin girl who had become a political prisoner in the 1950s in the ex-Yugoslavia. The story follows Marina, Gina’s niece, on her way to the prison she is visiting for the second time – the first time as a baby seen in a photograph and now as an elderly lady. Together, we are bringing the female side of the Yugoslavian camps, and questioning how many generations it takes to overcome a trauma.
A man and a teenager live in a house in the middle of the woods. The idea of an impossible closeness.
The fable of Little Red Riding Hood is transformed into a modern and grotesque fairy tale. The baroque reflection of a dense national history in which the Roma people also have their place.
About people who lost their love to bury at a sunny place, and make Korean funeral soup with the brisket of beef (‘Yangji’ means i) sunny place to bury body, ii) the brisket of beef in Korean)
A first-generation American high school student describes what she and her mom learn about people when cleaning their homes.