Desperate Lives

15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite...

This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in...

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects...

Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty,...

Weenie follows the story of a young woman experiencing homelessness by depicting the moments before she her homes in a series of snapshot scenes.

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe...

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales...

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and...

After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her...

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He...

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.