In a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire, Hussein and his younger brother, Theeb, live in a traditional Bedouin community isolated from the conflict of World War I. Their quiet existence, however, is interrupted when a British Army officer arrives seeking a guide to lead him across the treacherous desert.
What happened to Amalia? Who was with her the night she died? Her daughter Delia is saddened bythe news, but not surprised. She considers her mother to be a disgrace even before she hears of the sordid circumstances of her death. Delia travels home to Naples for the funeral and tries to piece tog...
Based on the true story of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian literature professor who was arrested on false charges during Stalin's reign of terror and sentenced to ten years of hard labor in a Siberian Gulag. From Marleen Gorris, the director of the Academy Award-winning film Antonia's Line.
Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. 55 years later, at a Parisian boarding school, a Haitian teenager confesses an old family secret, never imagining that she will inspire her classmate to do the unthinkable.