The filmmaker returns to the Maasai village in Kenya that has been the subject
of most of her life's film work. Intercut with scenes from her earlier films
produced over 20 years, this film explores the changes the Maasai have been
forced to make. Her focus is again on the women of this pastoral village as they
discuss their socially and politically inferior status in relation to myth and the
practicalities of everyday life. Her women friends’ stories are woven into a
lyrical, moving, complex and personal film on the nature of memory and of
dreams.
An abusive husband is angered that his wife is having trouble conceiving a child. One night, after leaving his house following a fight, she overdoses on pills.
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy.
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst.
A woman with ‘no name and no country’ in search of a sense of belonging. Asked to write a script about her own experience, she constructs an ‘autobiography’ which is partly fiction.
"A group of crazy teenagers break into an abandoned old theater and kill the owners. They dump their bodies in the basement and wake up the Cannibal Demons that have been locked there for over a hundred years.
On one May day in 1864, N. G. Chernyshevsky, a writer and revolutionary democrat, was declared a state criminal and sentenced to hard labor in Siberian mines.
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