Inspirée de faits réels, l'histoire incroyable de 4 orphelins, rescapés d'une attaque de leur village au Soudan. Ils parcourent près de 1000 kilomètres à pieds pour rejoindre un camp de réfugiés des Nations Unies et survivre. 10 ans plus tard, devenus adolescents, ils gagnent le droit d'immigrer aux Etats-Unis à la suite d'un tirage au sort. Commence pour eux une nouvelle aventure, extraordinaire, dans un monde inconnu et surprenant, marquée par la rencontre d'une femme exceptionnelle qui les aidera à retrouver un sens à la vie..
Cullen, un jeune étudiant de bonne famille, découvre qu’il est en réalité le fruit du viol sauvage de sa mère par un criminel dénommé Rose et désormais emprisonné. S’étant rendu à la prison pour y rencontrer cet homme, il apprend que Rose a été relâché il y a un an. Cullen décide alors de partir à la recherche de ce père biologique, de son sinistre passé… et d’une vérité qui s’avèrera pour lui bien plus étrange encore..
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done..
Former Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Dich (Chow Yun-Fat) comes to HK after the Vietnam war, as a professional killer for a gang leader. Here he meets and falls in love with Vicky Lee (Rosamund Kwan). He is ordered to kill her father, and later given the order to kill her too as she started to suspect him. She then discovers that he is responsible for her fathers death....
Writing, reading, arithmetic. Building a house, ploughing a field. English, French. Filmmaker Maria Knilli shoots inconspicuously among the children. The small and large learning steps become visible, the relationships between each other and the atmosphere in which learning takes place: the tender seriousness, the intimate curiosity, the communal enthusiasm..
