| 1. |
Set in 1969, the story of a recently widowed Jewish woman from Queens, New York, and her relationship with her family and the Italian man who has loved her from afar for many years.
|
| 2. |
A story about natives living under the shadows of Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia, who are trying to reconcile their ancient, spiritual values with a bloody past and where humor is used to express their optimism for a better life.
|
| 3. |
...an exhaustive world tour, after the huge success of their album OK Computer in 1997. The alienation of touring, with its numbing parade of airports, hotels and journalists is used to counterpoint the introspective nature of their music.
|
| 4. |
...set in Tokyo, Japan. "Shaking Tokyo" centers on a man who has lived for 10 years as a hikikomori, (a term used in Japan for people unable to adjust to society and so they never leave their homes) and what happens when he falls in love one day...
|
| 5. |
...of Blek Giek will follow in a kind of explosive concoction. Dead people come back to life at their funeral; people still alive are taken for corpses to be used as donors, people killing for a drug to make them feel dead. Betrayals, misunderstandings...
|
| 6. |
A cabaret singer, inexplicably jailed by Polish authorities, gradually realizes that her "confessions" will be used to frame other far more important people in an upcoming political trial.
|
| 7. |
...built and poorly maintained, service and repair people held tremendous power, and used it. One plumber might serve a whole street of...young nurse named Katya who insists that he treat people better. His buddy Kolya wants him to continue...
|
| 8. |
...Teruel but 20km from Bunuel's hometown of Calanda, has a big problem. The population is not what it used to be: in the 30s 2,000 people lived there, now the number is nearer 600 and so the mayor decides to take some remedial action. Immigrant...
|
| 9. |
...promise to protect the family he loved--and ended up finding the courage to save over 1200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda, secretly used his position and intelligence to shelter over a thousand refugees during the genocide crisis...
|
| 10. |
A portrait of twelve people who have been affected by the medication Thalidomide. Used in a number of countries from 1957 until 1961, Thalidomide was taken off the market after causing birth defects. The documentary...
|