In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in…

Sanae, who went to prison after failing to kill her ex-boyfriend six years ago, meets Kenta, a forest ranger, and gets married. Sanae and Kenta’s married life takes a new…

The stories of several young women who work in a ‘precision optical instruments’ factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in…

Beautifully constructed, 1001 Nights stays true to the lush and mysterious backdrop of the well known and age old story. Tezuka remolds the story into an escapist fantasy where a…

When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of…

Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in…

A group of greenpeace youths board an oil rig thats about to be sunk, planning to prevent it. Once on board they discover that they are not alone, something on…

A life-altering friendship is formed between a man and 11 year old child after the passing of the boy’s father.

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of…

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the “in crowd” of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by…

An abused wife leaves her husband, takes her child away and goes to live in a car.

An adolescent arrives in a new town where he tries to join the drag-racing crowd.