- Hardin portrays romance novelist Emilia, described as a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor (McNamara) and Zach (Lloyd-Jones), under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to reconnect, Taylor and Zach explore new and past relationshi…
- During the war between Iraq and Iran, Saddam Hussein's forces attacked Halabja, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, with bombs, artillery fire and chemical weapons, in particular nerve gas. Some 5000 people are estimated to have died in the attack. An Iranian war photographer is the first man to enter the city following the mas…
- The Glass House by Hamid Rahmanian (Iran/US, 2008, 92 min.). By attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation center in uptown Tehran, four girls strive to create better lives. With a virtually invisible camera, explore never-before-seen footage of Iran's underclass: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra h…
- Mamat is a native of Kelantan, Malaysia, but he had left Malaysia many years earlier to join his brother Lazim in South Thailand in order to continue making his living as a trainer of fighting bulls . The practice had been outlawed in Malaysia but continued in Thailand. Mamat lives with his wife and three daughters, th…
- The graphic account of a poverty-stricken family living in Tehran through the days before the youngest daughter of the family, Somaieh, is departing to start her marriage to a supposedly rich Afghan. While all members of the family have their worries about the wholeness of the marriage, she is struggling with her madly…