Tango
A Jamaican man of the community battles depression and disillusionment.
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
A dark entity lingers over Elsie. A daily struggle, impaired thoughts and emotions causing her to lose contact with external reality.
We were born as a synthesis as a result of the opposition between the thesis of the West and the antithesis of the East.
My secret friend, I will take you to the ocean, where we can swim endlessly. Our souls can collide in the depth of the ocean and get lost in the abyss. There is no password this time, as you wear out in empty endings every day, just imagine this time. Imagine the sweet peace in the depth, to not get lost among light and nothingness.
Fatma is a young teacher in her own right during the years of oppression and fear following the September 12 coup. One day, on her way home, Fatma is stopped by the police who were checking the road. The police are looking for a militant named Şükran and they take Fatma into custody, even though they know she is not the person they are looking for. Although Fatma denies being Şükran during her interrogation at the police station, the interrogation turns into torture after a while. Fatma finally accepts that she is Şükran. When the real Şükran is caught, Fatma confronts the real Şükran, who was sent to the same prison, and denies her existence.
La muchacha
A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life.
Benjamín
Para vestir santos
Thanks to his 'friend' Ollie, Zac learns how to fish.
- Now I will read some poetry for you all. The conditions are as follows: If during my reading I notice the least sign of disinterest, a yawn or a cough or a gesture of impatience, I will immediately terminate the reading. Poetry, like all deeper human activities, requires concentration.
Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara, an unlikely friendship is born that will help them both rediscover the joy of life.
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to.
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.