Life Support
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Director: Nelson George
Actors: Anna Deavere Smith, Darrin Henson, Evan Ross, Gloria Reuben, Queen Latifah, Raw Leiba, Sidné Anderson, Tony Rock, Tracee Ellis Ross, Wendell Pierce
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During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
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When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the…
Woven
When a mysterious crime takes the life of her only brother, an Ethiopian American woman searches for the truth behind his death, while struggling to reconcile cultural expectations with her…
Palindromes
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to…
Nomads
Susan is a filmaker working on a documentary about subway suicides at Mexico City. Roberto is an illegal mexican inmigrant that works cleaning windows at New York. Roberto meets Susan…