Acting
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.
Spark is set in a future where fire is banned, clean air is precious, and an over-protective society fears the natural disasters of the past. Young 'Very,' is the quiet, new girl in an unfriendly classroom teeming with technology, hormones and cruelty. When a false fire alarm is triggered, she is unexpectedly swept up in a rebellious crime and thrust into an outsider culture. Only with her new accomplices does she discover friendship and a more organic connection to the planet, fire and her past.
The quiet, devout daughter of a priest, is cast as the Grand Inquisitor in a theater adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, yet she struggles to play the man who tortures Jesus Christ and condemns Him to a second death.
Claire struggles as the shock of her father's suicide ripples through her small Quaker community. Desperate to reunite with the only person who seemed to understand her, Claire reaches out to her father across the boundary of death.
The story of a a trans man and a hijabi who unite as adults to rekindle their tragic teenage romance.
A documentary film crew follows an Iranian woman, a doctor who is living under political house arrest. Inviting journalists into her home to share her research can hold a potential death sentence, a risk she is willing to take in order to save countless lives.
Persecuted and hunted by Christianizing forces, young Deirdre and her clan eke out an itinerant existence in the forest. When the threat grows more imminent, Deidre's mother, Brigid, is led by a ritualistic vision to make a transformative choice: she offers herself as holy sacrifice. Many years later, Deirdre and her father, Orson, are all that remain of the clan. Deirdre and Orson embark upon a harrowing and hallucinatory journey to find Brigid, one that will lead them across the threshold of death and far beyond.
