"Exposing issues within the foster care system"
We follow Eva through her troubled childhood, all the while exposing issues within the foster care system.
Social & External
The people behind it
Annette Ciavarella
Social Worker and Attorney
Florencia Contreras Stevens
Faye
Dminor
Judge Sims
Stephen Harr
Officer
Christian Hurst
Court Patron
Gabriella Hurst
Hopscotch Daughter
Rickey Jewkes
Doctor
Carolyn Crow Koskan
Gretta
Aisha Marie
Teen Ava
Dale McKeel
Jake
Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.
Life takes a sour turn for a corrupt politician when he crosses the wrong people.
In the story "Baju Kurung," Nizam decides to leave his family to find work in the city. Despite his mother and younger brother living in hardship, Nizam believes his departure can change their family's fate. Meanwhile, Azmi, Nizam's younger brother, tries to take on the family's responsibilities. However, an unexpected tragic accident changes everything.
A young man seeking to embrace a perceived legacy unwittingly sparks a notorious chain of events while visiting his father's alma mater.
Welcome to the post-apocalyptic world of "Walther", an intense and moving film pilot about loneliness, the will to survive, and the power of humanity. Walther, a solitary trucker, navigates a desolate landscape where survival is anything but guaranteed. His only connection to the old world is a nostalgic schlager radio station that offers him comfort in isolation. But when a radio announcer desperately calls for antibiotics—a resource Walther has in abundance—he faces a decision that could change his life forever: Should he remain trapped in his solitude or risk stepping out to help others and rediscover his own humanity?
The Recorder, the keeper of Epameinondas's mind, documents his moments on on little notes. Encouraged by his best friend Yiannis, Epameinondas sets out on a hike to escape the weight of a recent breakup. As time flows by, he becomes a father, only to later find himself battling dementia in a nursing home. The Recorder's room is now in a state of danger. Yet, the hike goes on.
Lawrence, a former amateur boxer with dementia, fights for his tie to his own identity; while his daughters grapple with the decision of whether it’s time to put him in a nursing home.
After a sudden terminal cancer diagnosis, a teacher and her factory worker husband work to save their marriage from the teetering edge of divorce.
Trapped in a toxic relationship, Marcos discovers the effort it takes to heal and move forward.
Gegê wants to die but it will not be an easy task.
The son of the wealthy Signor Della Corba loves one of his maids. Her brothers and father rebel at the idea of this union. But the girl is pregnant, and after the birth of the child, Della Corba's son decides to kidnap his mistress on Carnival Day. The brothers, having caught wind of the plan, kill him, then, in disguise, take him masked to his father's house, passing him off as a drunken friend. At dawn, Della Corba discovers her lifeless son under the mask. The maid having died in the meantime, he takes the child in and adopts him.
Marie is in a toxic relationship with Roxy as her pet puppy girl.
While fleeing their hometown during the Nazi invasion, Jewish teenagers Fanye and Rivkah are chased through the woods by an armed Nazi soldier and are forced to make life-and-death decisions.
Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his father. He decides to join the crew of the famous ocean liner Hikawa Maru and finds work cooking in the ship's galley. Through his eyes, the film explores the ship's 85-year history.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Rip Porter is sentenced to seven years in prison for beating his wife, Wendy. When he is released, he discovers that Wendy gave up their child, and the privileged Campbell family adopted him. The two families are soon in a legal battle for the child they both love.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
