American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy

A couple of thirty-somethings struggling with life, marriage, work, a kid and a new bought house outside the city.

A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of...

In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl's marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly...

When they discover that they are pregnant, a young couple in Hanoi resort to desperate (and bizarre) measures to raise money for an abortion.

A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.

The year is 1941 in Sweden and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora, which...

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

The day after his abduction, a nine-year-old boy is found seemingly unharmed, but he has suffered severe trauma as a result of his time in the hands...

An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.

A comedy centered on a failed American writer who enters into an affair after a chance encounter with a European dancer.

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in...

Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make...